Who shaped her artistically? Which works from colleagues do you particularly like? What do you recommend comic beginners? In the Tagesspiegel questionnaire, draftsmen give insights into their work and their passion for art form. Today: Berlin comic artist Katharina Kulenkampff (“How I became a gray dog”).
1. What comes first in your work: words or pictures?
It often runs in parallel.
2. Listen to draw music, and how does it affect you?
I hear all sorts of things: music, podcasts, series, radio. It doesn’t affect me, it’s just really to hear something in the background. Sometimes I am annoyed and don’t hear anything on the side.
3. What do you like to eat or drink at work?
PIP & NUT Dark Roast Crunchy peanut butter and Fanta Pink Grapefruit – unfortunately this variety is no longer available.
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4. Suppose your apartment burns: Which comics would you definitely save from your shelf?
Everything from Jul Gordon, Anna Haifisch, Anouk Ricard and Jockum Nordström.
5. Which draftsmen and author were the most formative for their own development?
Nanne Meyer, she looked after my diploma at the university and gave me some good things. For example: If you think it takes about a week, expect two. Henning Wagenbreth, because after I got stuck in part -time jobs for a long time, he had encouraged again.
6. Which comic would you recommend to someone who actually doesn’t read any comics?
“Benson’s Cuckoos” by Anouk Ricard.
7. Do you think the art form Comic currently has the attention you deserve?
No.
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8. Which contemporary comic artists earn more attention than they have at the moment?
Jul Gordon.
9. If you had to award a highly endowed price for the comic lifestyle, who would get it?
I would like to award three to Jul Gordon, Anna Haifisch and Anouk Ricard.
10. How would you describe what is special about your comics?
The nasty inner voice appears as a visible living figure, like a twin sister. Animal figures drawn crooked and crooked.
11. What are you currently working on if you don’t fill out questionnaires?
I fill out a different questionnaire and draw a small insect comic.
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12. Why would you advise a young person to become a comic car-and why would you advise him or her to advise against it?
I would advise you to try what you would like to, because often what you like to do yourself will be more or less good at some point. But it is also very difficult and maybe it doesn’t work either.
13. How does it feel for you to hold your drawings as printed books in your hand?
Wonderful and very special.
14. What grades did you have in art lessons?
They fluctuated between very good and sufficient.
15. What can you not draw at all?
Hands.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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