Burkha-Brot

-All breads in the bakery where wrapped in non-transparent plastic.
- The turkish saleswoman tried to describe the breads for me without unwrapping them.
- Although I didn't intend to question her good taste, I finally asked her: "Could I.... maybe... see the bread?"
- She answered: "You have to propose marriage to the bread first!"
And it was the first time that I blushed at sight of a bread.

Chicks on Comics - exhibition at gallery alpha nova

Chicks on Comics, who always gab about everything publicly, are now playing the 'telephone game' and those, who best like to issue autobiographical notes, now take the adventure of genre comics. There will be new fanzines and guest contributions from guest chicks und cocks from Argentinia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Great Britian and Germany!

 We are very excited to meet  with almost all members of our group in Berlin: Sole, Clara, Paola and Maartje will be in Berlin for the panel - discussion on 16.03.2012 at 14:00! So come along and see us chat for the first time live and analogue!

http://www.alpha-nova-kulturwerkstatt.de/programm/galerie/

This is the cover that I did for one of the fanzines.

The Flyer above is by Powerpaola and me.
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Gefördert durch das Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amts
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Yuck! There is unicorn-meat in my squirrel-lasagne!

Und das mache ich zum Beispiel, anstatt mir einen sozialversicherungspflichtigen Job zu suchen:

The long eyes in the middle are the fanciest, the others are sooo not hip...

guest-post by Ulla Loge

Lies die kind in progress (2)

Do you remember the Crash Test Dummies? If you do, you are sooooo old! - like me. I think, this was probably the first time, when I looked the word "dummy" up in the inter... no! back then it must have been a real physical dictionary.
So here are 4 dummies, accompanied by the original drawing for the cover of the soon-to-be-released comic-book "Lies die kind". And isn't this mangaesque misprint pretty?

London poem

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The rain-soaked hem of a burkha...
A prophet with megaphone in the pedestrian precinct.
A market crier tries to drown him out.
In the tube a girl put's her make-up on, mirroring in the window.

Lies die kind - in progress

Here is a detail of the title of a comic-book, that I'm currently working on. Actually it will be one of three comic-books containing short-stories, that I collected over the last few years. The first book of this "series" (I'm going to call it like this now, because my first idea was to publish all short-stories in one book - so now they belong together somehow...) is "My day off" and was already published one month ago. So maybe, I should have made this announcement a bit earlier, but I wasn't sure, whether I'd really do it that way...
"Lies die kind" will contain 12 pages and is a surrealist experimental story about the difficulty to live with repressed memories.
I will post some more making-off-pictures here...

Today I took a sip of the jar where I wash my brushes.
That didn't happen for years.
I felt like a "real artist" again : )

A day in the life of a (feminine) feminist

We discussed in the alphanova-galery about chicksoncomics and feminism.
In the train back home I was sexually harrassed.
My mobile didn't know the word "feminism" but suggested the word "feminin" instead.

Dear english-speaking readers, to keep it short, this text is about the sentences: "He isn't very handsome, but has a lot of charm." and "In her youth she was a beauty." and my hope to be still alive when the day (hopefully) comes, when it will be very common to say: "She's not very pretty, but has a lot of charm." and "He was very pretty when he was young."

...a post about the campground of  Erlangen, where the biggest german Comic-festival takes place every two years. It was closed this year, so I wrote down my memories of the campground-guard, who didn't like students and thought they were all too stupid to put glass-bottles in the right container. We miss him!

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a man cried loudly on the street. what had happened to him? he sobbed like a child.

because i wanted to eat my ice-cream undisturbed by lustful glances, i went to the graveyard.

first I thought: "these sprayers really stop at nothing!" dann I recognized that this was a sprayer's grave.

next to my house I saw a girl with a funny telephone (in pink!!!)
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Sorry, dear non-German-speakers, I can't translate this...
But thanks for visiting my blog!

Ahhh, la France!

I discovered a wine-bottle-holder for bikes

and I was missing the matching baguette-holder.

Liebe LeserInnen,
letztes Jahr im September hatte ich ja schon einmal angekündigt, weniger zu bloggen. Seitdem hielt ich mich allerdings immer noch an einen wöchentlichen Rhythmus, den ich nun aber wirklich aufgeben werde.
Es wird Frühling und ich habe das Gefühl, genug im Laub vor mich hingeratzt zu haben...
Der Blog war mein Laubhaufen, auf den die kleinen Geschehnisse des Alltags unsortiert herunter flatterten. Ich habe dadurch gemerkt wie unglaublich vielfältig das tägliche Leben ist, dass ich mich für mehr Themen interessiere, als ich dachte, aber mir ist auch klar geworden, dass Fiktion letztendlich auch nur aus der Realität besteht. Und mittlerweile interessiert es mich mehr, diese kleinen Dinge zu einem großen Ganzen zu verflechten, als sie einfach „nur so“ zu sammeln.
Ich habe trotzdem noch einige geplante Blogeinträge, die ich gerne umsetzen würde. Nur weiß ich nicht, wann.... Wenn Ihr meinem Blog noch folgen möchtet, ist es jetzt wahrscheinlich besser, ihn über Facebook, Bloglovin oder Blogger zu abonnieren.(Dafür bitte runterscrollen.)

Ansonsten möchte ich Euch noch einmal meine Sammlung der comic-sport-Beiträge des ersten halben Jahres (die, meiner Meinung nach zu den besten gehören) ans Herz legen: von mir liebevoll handgebunden, mit 6-farbigem Siebdruckcover gedruckt und - das Beste (für alle Nerds und Sammler): limitiert auf 40 Stück!

Es sind noch einige Exemplare im shop vorhanden....

Ich danke Euch, dass Ihr mir bisher Eure Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt habt und würde mich natürlich auch freuen wenn Ihr Euch für meine anderen Projekte interessiert... Neuigkeiten dazu findet Ihr immer hier:

www.lilliloge.de

*Lilli

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Dear readers,
In september I said that I wanted to post less on this blog, but then I still blogged once a week. Now I really mean it... I'm doing this for 2 and a half years now, but meanwhile I've become more interested in longer fictional stories, instead of just collecting unsorted little daily-life-stories. I loved doing this and I learned a lot about me, my themes and -most important- that fiction contains of daily-life, too. I still won't stop blogging here, but maybe it's better if you follow me on facebook, blooger or bloglovin, because there will be longer breaks now.
If you are interested, what I'm doing instead of comic-sports, please visit my homepage:
www.lilliloge.de
Thanks!
*Lilli

Peta reloaded ; )

Guest post by my sista  Ulla Loge!

Wie viele vegane Sadisten kennst Du?....

After watching the new PETA-commercial I did not only realize that there really is an antifeminist backlash but also what world view this animal rights group seems to have:
-Bunnies and other cute animals - all other (not so beautiful) animals - vergans - men - fruits - vegetables - cereals - water - women
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TRIGGER WARNING because of belittlement/ glorification of sexual violence.
TRIGGER WARNUNG: Verharmlosung/Verherrlichung von sexualisierter Gewalt.

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Bling Bling -Teddies

Fashion-prognosis
Hey! so many nice trends from the 80s came back. Why not also this trend?
Stuffed animals ornamented with jewellery! Do it for the teddies!
...But some trends can certainly stay where they got lost in the 90s....

Skizze für eine Short-Story an der ich gerade arbeite. Diese beiden Kerlchen sind zwei typische Vertreter der Alpha-Avantgarde! Leider haben sie noch keine Hauptrolle, deshalb hängen sie jetzt mal auf dem Blog ab.
Sketch for a short-story that I'm currently working on. Those little fellows are typical examples of the Alpha-Avantgarde.

...mit natürlichem Grapefruit-Öl...

soap against kitchen-rumors.. ; ) ..obviously a word-play that doesn't work in english..

für & von BiXX

sorry, I can't translate this...

The occupy-movement of the cats:

"Come on, Schnurri, move! I have to got to work at my bank!"

This post is about the lack of avantgardistic women in arts. Ok, I know comics-art best and maybe I speak for comic-art... For example in "Reading comics" by Scott Mc Cloud Mary Fleener is mentionend as the only really innovative woman. But what is she doing these days? She draws kitschy paintings on velvet. Why isn't she into comis anymore? .. I can only guess... But a woman has to do 200 percentage of what a man has to do to get 100 (or even 80 %) of the appreciation. Comics are per se avantgarde. So why should a woman do avantgardistic comics to additionally decrease her prospects on appreciation? Or maybe we just don't know about some avantgardistic women. There are also lot's of really innovative men, that you don't get to know, because they were ahead of  their time. So maybe the visibility of innovative avantgardistic women is just too small. (sorry for my crappy summary. I hope you get the meaning..)

What's up with my male characters?

These characters might appear in some future projects. But don't ask me, what it'll be!.. I just posted them because they look funny : )

Happy New Year to everybody!!!
And here's my alternative to the symbolic collective jerk-off at the turn of the year, that might represent a characteristic of the female orgasm: atmospheric silvester-plateau-fevers! (the aim is to let them burn from noon Dec. 31th til noon January first...) Have a nice 2012! *Ba-BoooM!*

Came so often. Again and again. New. Coming. New. Coming and again new and again coming. Old newcomers.

Mensch und Tür

Today I dreamed about a mixture between door and human beeing.

Maybe THE DOORS had dreams like this before they named their band?

But what should I learn from this dream?  Do I have to do a 400 page-graphic-novel about THE DOORS now? No...maybe I should just make a "DOORS- Advents - calendar" for next christmas!

There are galleries with this certain light, that makes the pictures look good and the make-up and skin of the visitors look bad. Here are some ways to avoid on the next vernissage looking 100 years older than you are...

tattooed balls

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A friend once told me, that getting tattooed aches as much as to epilate oneself. Tatooed people normally show off the pain they had to suffer. Whereas seldom a woman is asked whether it ached a lot to epilate her legs. And also there are parts of the body who can ache much more when epilated... I think, that I'm not exaggerating when I'm saying, that Brazilian Waxing aches as much as getting one's balls tattooed! There must be an end to the silent suffering of women! ....but how?... maybe like that?... "Yes, it aches! - Brazilian Waxing"

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This post is about jogging as you might have noticed. Yes, I did it again and I can recommend it!

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Sorry, no translation because of mocking about German dialect ; )

sketches

Charakterskizzen für ein 6-seitiges Comic, das ich gerade für die neue Streichelwurst  zum Thema "Verführung" gezeichnet habe.
Character-sketches for a 6-page comic, that I did for  the new Die Streichelwurst. The theme was "seduction".

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Nail-salon

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Why oh why can't I eat you? You are so so selfish!!!

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"But why did they build the Berlin wall?

A hedge would have been enough."

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Today I dreamed that I shaved of my sideburns.

I see pink children!

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... bought shaving foam...
... had an appetite for a cream puff for breakfast...

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I met this guy in the supermarket. First I was afraid of him then I saw what he bought.

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I've got the feeling, that as woman you are not recognized

until it's just impossible to ignore you.

The Poulaine

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Recently I was thinking about some Designs for a modern version of the

Poulaine. Here they are: for Hipsters, as 90's Comeback, made from rubber

as underwater-poulaine, in red velour for the art-teacher-type, or maybe it becomes

a fashion for the underclass and than you can buy it from American Appareil, too (as hat).

Feel - good - politics...

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I had a discussion about the Occupation of Wall Street, in which I was asked

how I would improve capitalism. I would abolish the stock market and punish corruption

harder and more consequently.... and next time I'll blog about fashion again....; )

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Shortly before his dead, Rudi Gernreich called Peggy Moffit to tell her that he dreamed that on his tombstone was written: "He was always 10 years ahead of his time." Peggy laughed and later she wrote: "He was wrong of course. He was always 30 years ahead of his time."

I think that he was more than that ahead of his time that's why these days his ideas still are passed off by young designers as something new.

Nevertheless,  I'm still waiting for his topless-creations to become fashionable!

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Dear non-german-speaking readers! I know, that my English is lousy. I'm only translating the posts sometimes, so you can guess what it's about. This one is about a little girl that entered the comic-library and told me, that she is looking for a book with at least 500 pages --and no pictures! Her friend wanted to read comics, but she decided to leave our third-class library.