Cadavre Exquis is a collective comic project, initiated by the Portuguese illustrator Daniel Maia. Every artist, known or unknown in the comic business, draws only one page and follows up with the story from the previous pages. Thomas Nash has drawn the 22nd page of Cadavre Exquis. The German version you find below:
My first comic (so don`t be too critcal), drawn in order of a projekt in “Cova da Moura” an suburb area near lisbon, similar to a ghetto. The people who live there, most of them from Cape Verde and the rest of Africa, have to deal with an area in a very bad condition. Cova da Moura also not enjoys the best reputation in Lisbon and in the media.
For my analyses the most significant thing is, that people spend most of the time on the streets, the most important public space in this case. And thats whats the comic is all about.
Drawn with pigmentliner – November 2009
did this after i moved into my new flat…
“the church of puss”
58,5 x 66,0 cm
black marker on white wall
august 2009.
These Sketches are Characterdesigns for a game concept I developed together with Georg Wallner and Benjamin Hable at the FH.
We really got caught up on the gameplay since we wanted this thing to be really good. The concept was,… but it would have been far too complicated to programm/set up. XD
Just a reminder: Xoth will be presented at the 5th of decembre in the Rechbauerkino Graz, starting at 8 pm. The program will be a presentation about the topic, a discussion, a small exhibition, the selling of the comic and finally, a screening of a Lovecraft related movie. Admission free until the screening, then it costs 5 Euros. If you want you can get my comic cheaper there in a package with the movie ticket.
Hope to see you there.
Facts first: I just finished a full color hardcover book with 80 pages of content, 66 of these pages are my comic and I have a foreword by comic journalist Noah Berlatsky. I worked about one year on the comic, with bigger and smaller breaks, between 6-10 hours/ page (depending on the complexity of it). Btw, im sorry, im not really good in layouting with wordpress…
Xoth has its first review on the net by the webpage “G wie Gorilla”. I am amazed how nice it came out. But well, read it for yourself.More news are, that Xoth has its own webpage, in German though. Check it out, www.xoth-comic.net
Xoth presentation party in Graz: will take place in the Rechbauerkino Graz at 05.12.2008, 8 pm within the official program “Kinogeschichten”. Official invitations will be send out, but keep the evening of this day free to enjoy an entertaining ebening full of monsters, nerds and nerdmonsters!
The story behind the comic
The story BEHIND the comic: In 2006 I found a book in a NYC comic book store called “The Art of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos”. Being a fan of the American horror author Lovecraft, I was very interested in the possibilities of visualization of his horrific, unspeakable monsters, ancient cities and impossible artifacts etc. I decided to make a comic interpretation of Lovecraft, and, to make a perfect concept, I decided to write a diploma thesis on him. This thesis not only dealt with the theoretical background of Lovecraft’s life, his work and his impact on popular culture, but also included a practical part where I developed the alien city of XOTH and its inhabitants.
The Story
This is the world Jacop O’ Damsel ( at the beginning of the story an earth inhabitant who never even could dream about a city like Xoth) gets pulled into. A gigantic, glowing space monster takes him with it, and he wakes up surrounded by strangeness. There are the deep ones, strange fishy creatures, who worship humans in their “Ordus Humanus”, a counter religion to the religion of the “Great Old ones”, and they want Jacop! He escapes, being chased by horny fish, assassinators of Cthlhu and other life threatening thingies. He gets help from one of the daughters of Shub-Niggurath, the Dark Goat. Yen is her name, and she thinks Jacop is cute. Good thing, because that why he stays alive in the first place. And so the two of them try to find out why Jacop is here and who is behind the Ordus Humanus – the mysterious creature in the dark!
A little 2 page-strip which I entered into the Observer/Comica – Short Graphic-story competition, surely won’t win it, but I definately had loads of fun doing it!!! Enjoy!
(For readability, enlarge please)
Drawing, Script by Julian Krispel
Initial idea: Paul Holmes
Since over a year now I am working on my big comicproject “Xoth – the unspeakable city”, a Lovecraftian fantastic adventure of 70 pages of color. One reason why I never write anything. In Octobre or november will be the presentation of the comic. Here see some panels (which are not connected).
A bit late, I know: Today is the next Drawing Jam at the Forum Stadtpark, Saloon, 6 pm. Youre kindly invited, there will be fun and vegetables. Picture below by Jörg Vogeltanz.
