Snapshots from the printing process with Jonni

In 2004 I already had a little project with Jonni the legendary screenprinting master in Berlin. As back then, the chemistry worked so well, I didn't want to look for another place. It was so awesome and revealing to work with him again. We had a lot of fun and beers

Jonni inspecting the outcome »

I was so amazed to see the images finally on a large format, also kindo of taken out of the logic of the storyflow. So they had to stand on their own.

DID YOU DRAW IT 
OR MAKE IT WITH THE COMPUTER?
—YES!

KAZKA is drawn entirely on a Tablet PC. from the first to the last page. 
All the elements from the normal world were done in Photoshop, all the alien elements were drawn in Illustrator

NO STORY WITHOUT BOARDS

"I often thought about the story, the flow and how to connect all the characters and events. Withouth myLittle storyboard and my dear Pelikan stenography pen i would have been lost."

— Kazmonavt

Q: Hi Mr. Kazmonavt, can you explain us what Kazmonavt actually means?

K: In short: the name Kazmonavt comes from the Russian word (KOCMONABT) Kosmonavt or Cosmonaut, which is the Soviet term for Astronaut. In my philosophy nothing exists outside the cosmos, which means that all and everything as a simple fact is cosmic. Therefore is the Kazmos my own realm of creativity, phantasy and inspiration.

But, here's the long story Where I was born, there is a huge meteorite crater with about 24 km diameter form about 14 mio. years ago. Its impact had the strength of about 1.8 million Hiroshima Bombs. One very nice and sparkling fact about that is, that the meteorite hit a local graphite deposit and crushed it into myriads of microscopic diamonds. Those can still be found everywhere in stone buildings in that area. Also a little hill was shaped “by the impact“ in the center of the crater. It lies about 100 meters below the rim. On that hill is a small restaurant whose owners grow wine on the spot. The wine “ the cosmic wine“ as we liked to call it, as it grows on alien ground, is sold to the guests of the restaurant. While I was telling this story to a friend, I understood that not only the meteorite was a cosmic object but also the earth itself and thus everything else. I like this idea, it gives a bit of a spiritual hippy touch to everything and on the other hand it is such a plain fact, that everything is cosmic."

The Comic and all artwork is copyrighted 2011 by Kazmonavt | www.kazmonavt.com