Graphic Travelogues

For Adventurers
"Saint-Victor-sur-Rhins"

In Saint-Victor-sur-Rhins Gregor, Hinz takes us to the small community of the same name in the French Auvergne-Rhone-Alps region. His picture story is composed of a series of fragments painted with felt-tip pens, which tell of his travel impressions with a wink.

For City Explorers
"Cités - Lima"

Jens Harder rambled through Lima for five hours without a plan, without a goal. The outcome consists of fleeting, marginal observations that show that lengthy research isn’t always necessary.

For Everyday Heroes
"Novosibirsk"

For its 125th city anniversary, the Goethe-Institut invited Sebastian Lörscher to spend a week reporting on everyday life and the art scene there. It’s impossible to capture a city of millions like Novosibirsk as a visitor in just one week, so  Lörscher limited himself to brief incidents and encounters that together form a larger picture of life in the city.

For Everyday Heroes
"Barcelona"

In 2013, Calle Claus was a part of the ‘Comic Transfer’ programme organised by the Goethe-Institut and travelled from Hamburg to Barcelona. He felt most comfortable in the Catalonian capital when he was able to escape the hordes of tourists flooding the city.

For Everyday Heroes
"Once upon a time in Salvador"

Gunther Schumann says that street art (also in combination with comic art) is the method he uses to explore places. He always has a sketchbook with him because drawing helps block out other attractions, but ultimately, he needs space. He does not like to sit in front of small sheets. His street comic "Once upon a time in Salvador" starts like a fairy tale.

Artists from all over the world

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.

Ulli Lust

Tim Dinter

Bharath Murthy

Philip Cassirer

About Graphic Travelogues

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.

Translating comics
Puns in speech bubbles

What make translating a comic unique? What kind of issues do translators face? Five translators talk about what they do every day.

Trends in German Comics
Drawing on Life

Now as ever, real life remains the most vital source of inspiration for the German comics scene, even in these troubling times of the coronavirus crisis. Many German cartoonists have been artistically processing the pandemic and its effects on everyday life – and publishing their comics online.

Museum for Comics and the Language Arts
Duckburg on the banks of the Saale

Since 2015, the Museum of Comics and the Language Arts in Schwarzenbach has explored all aspects of the art of the comic. It pays tribute in particular to long-standing German translator of the Mickey Mouse comic books, Erika Fuchs.