KAZKA –The Black Ship
Kazka is a trippy and sometimes funny action comic which, without words, tells the story of a boy who tries to reassemble his girlfriend that died in a spaceship accident, while the last survivor of the ship’s crew tries to gain control over the abstract energy that actually caused the accident.
Borrowing from urban-art, there is also a manganese tendency within action loaded spreads and landscapes – one panorama at the end stretches across 8 pages!
Though there is a clear reference to the biblical story of Noah’s Arc, Kazka’s abstract, mythological images and the absence of words are an invitation for own thoughts and interpretations.
Kazka was my first published comic (Jaja Verlag, Berlin 2012), 160 pages.
The production time was about 6 years.
The above shown panorama is drawn over 4 spreads. It took several months to finish.
Storyboard in my Moleskine notebook with my Pelikan Steno fountain-pen , unfortunately those pens are not produced anymore
In 2006 I stumbled over an Acer Travelmate Laptop. One of the first tablet PCs. The whole comic was mostly drawn in Adobe Photoshop in 600dpi. The abstract shapes are imported from Illustrator. I developed a special way of creating glitches which I composed to bigger objects.
The speed-lines were drawn with an actual ruler on the display. That made them a bit more wobbly then just a straight PS line.
