The Longest Night A dreamlike Now, a time of danger, an inbetween place – yes, I‘m talking about the Corona period in this post, but also about how thinking about the winter solstice can help you make it through the night.
Welcome! Below, you can find some news and production tidbits about my current comic “People Not Seen,” a documentary project about Elves, memes, and the power of storytelling.
Story structure Narrative threads: Finding the Fairies Three main narrative threads are spun into the yarn that is “People Not Seen”. The first and primary thread follows the art student Dirk as he arrives in Iceland and embarks on his quest for finding the fabled Hidden People.
News Wanderlust In the midst of the pandemic and lockdown in Berlin, my Workshop group kept their spirits high and published “Wanderlust“, a 52-page anthology comic about all the extraordinairy places one could visit once the pandemic is over.
Dramatis personae Björn Björn agreed to meet me despite the ravages of his ill health. In a retirement home near Búðardalur he recounted his meeting a Hidden Lady when he was a boy.
Dramatis personae Marin Marín was probably the only fellow student at the Lístaháskola Íslands art academy who didn’t roll their eyes when hearing about my Elf project.
News Fall schedule at the Werkstatt für Comics After the success of our anthology comic at this year's Comic Invasion festival in May, the new September course is an opportunity to refocus on each participant's individual needs, questions and projects.
Dramatis personae Ragga I met Ragga in an online forum, where she talked about having grown up in close vicinity to an Elf hill. She studies folkloristics at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík.
News Comic Invasion Come join me this weekend for another Comic Invasion festival at the Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin!
Dramatis personae Siðurdur Siðurður is head of the psychiatric department of Reykjavík’s Landsspitalinn hospital.
Workshops Find out more about my biannual Berlin-based workshop class “Werkstatt für Comics”, a mentoring course for more advanced comic artists who want to pursue their own projects.
Dramatis personae Snævar Snævar is an old pal of Magnús who now lives in the northern town of Blönduós, after having lived in Norway, Sweden, the US, Thailand and the Philippines. During the many twists and
From the archive Around the World in 80 Pages (2003) A long lost but not forgotten project based on Jules Verne’s classic story involving five German comic artists (Laska Comix, Thomas Gilke, Fil, Jakob Werth and myself).
Panel preview Hvalfjörður Rusted remains of the WWII naval base in the Hvalfjörður fjord, destroyed by Elves in 1944 basically for interdimensional imperialism and trespassing.
Illustration The common element to all of my illustration work is visual narrativity, as showcased here by two exemplary projects.
Interview “A German man in Japan” An interview with online comics magazine Sequential Tart about Moresukine.
People Not Seen The project I am currently working on is a documentary about Elves, memes and the power of storytelling.
Dramatis personae Erla Erla Stefánsdóttir needs no introduction. She is Iceland’s first and foremost celebrity seeress every foreign camera team turns to when covering the Hidden People phenomenon.
Translation Learn more about my history of translating comics, and how I tackled to transcribe (and sometimes trans-draw) Larry Marder's famously untranslatable “Beanworld” comics.
Story structure Narrative threads: Fairy Tales Three main narrative threads are spun into the yarn that is “People Not Seen”. The second thread consists of Icelandic fairy tales, most of them historic, some more recent. To not take sides
