Durchbruch
Inspired by the changes in
the Eastern Europe, sybolized by the reunion of Berlin and the fall of the
Berlin Wall, close to 30 of Europes finest cartoon artists joined in making
a comic book. In this book, which was called "Durchbruch" in Germany "Muren
Faller" (The fall of the wall) in Norwegian, they presented their own
impressions of the past fall and winters happenings. Thre result was an
incredible comic book, edited by Pierre Christin and Andreas Knigge.
Bane Kerac shows a different side of himself here, with beautiful drawings, very artistic colouring and a very good story. He obviously have other sides to his talent than what he shows in "Cat Claw". Still, you recognize his pencil, and also the choice of scenery.
My absolute favourite stories in this book besides Bane Keracs, is those of Dave Gibbons, Neil Gaiman and Enki Bilal, which in this book presents the worlds shortest cartoon that still is telling a story - 2 frames...
For Banaholics (or cartoon-addicts):
The complete story!
- Page one (189 kB)
- Page two (183 kB)
- Page three (193 kB)
- Page four (194 kB)
The text in the comic is something as follows, translated by me:
Page one:
Title: Requiem for the victims
Frame 3: «He's been sitting home drinking for a couple of years now»
Frame 6: «What's that? A diary?»
«Yeah... Listen to this...»
Page four:
Frame 6: (radio voice) «...and along the Autobahn is Porches and Trabants driving
side by side...»
(bartender) «Black coffee, as usual?»
«No, not today ...I'll have a whiskey» «It'll be enough of that in the future won't it?»
The complete list of artists in the Durchbruch:
| Enki Bilal Francois Boucq Max Cabanes Lothar Dräger Jean-Louis Floch Neil Gaiman Dave Gibbons Anne Goetzinger André Juillard Bane Kerac |
Ilona Kiss Milo Manara Dave McKean Jean-Claude Mézieres Moebius Victor Mora Zeljko Pahek Marciej Parowski Boguslaw Polch Miguelanxo Prado |
Dimitri Savitski Mattias Schultheiss Bill Sienkiewicz Jacues Tardi Francois Thomas Daniel Torres Zonic Pierre Christin Andreas Knigge |
The "Durchbruch" is © Carlsen Verlag GmbH, Hamburg
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