For Seekers Of Meaning
Travel Sketches from Sri Lanka

It is a ‘strange city’ that Jens Harder and his readers head for in his story ‘Ticket to God’. A city that unites yet also divides as no other. Destroyed, disputed and divided, yet home to three of the world’s major religions that coexist here: Jerusalem.

In December 2017, Reinhard Kleist spent a month in India on the invitation of the Goethe-Institut. He appeared for live drawing sessions, workshops and readings in Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and New Delhi, and he participated in DeCAF, Delhi’s first Comic Arts Festival. He also visited the Taj Mahal, Kovalam, Jaipur and Pune. In this conversation, he tells the stories behind his “India Travel Sketches.”
 

The Indian comic artist Bharath Murthy converted to Buddhism in 2009 and processed his pilgrimage to the old places of work of the religious founder Siddhartha Gautama into a graphic travel report "The Vanished Path".

Learn more about our well-known artists, including Barbara Yelin, Reinhard Kleist and Sarnath Banerjee. All with proven comic expertise and sometimes with more, sometimes with less travel experience in the respective country.
 

Graphic Travelogues presents travel experiences by comic artists from different countries, illuminates and identifies recurring topics. From sketches to graphic novels, graphic diaries and travel drawings, we collect treasures here and question concepts and motivations, techniques and experiences.