Richard Cowdry
Cartoonist
Richard Cowdry is a comics writer and illustrator living in Berlin.
His graphic novel Das Geheimnis der Knochen EINE GESCHICHTE DER PALÄONTOLOGIE was published in November 2025 by Avant Verlag, Germany. Order links are here.
He is the creator and editor of The Comix Reader and the winner of the 2020 ComicInvasionBerlin Award.
Richard Cowdry is a British cartoonist and illustrator currently residing in Germany. His comics career began in the early 2000s after studying illustration at Brighton University, UK
In 2002 he won a new talent award at the Swiss Comic-Festival Sierre. He later taught comics to students at The University For The Arts in Maidstone, UK, and self-published the comics anthologies "Kartoon Cuts" (2004) and "The Bedsit Journal" issues 1 - 3 (2004 - 2008).
He was the creator and editor of The Comix Reader, a comics anthology which became an important platform for London's alternative comics scene.
Richard has contributed to various publications including Kuti, Vice, Oxford American, Stripburger, Black Eye, and Forbidden Planet. He drew a regular comic, "DownTown", for the Stool Pigeon music magazine.
He won first prize in the ComicInvasionBerlin awards of 2020.
He is interested in and influenced by all eras of comics, going back to the early 1800s.
Das Geheimnis der Knochen (The Secret Of The Bones), his first graphic novel, was published by Avant Verlag in November 2025.
He is working on multiple new comics projects.
For more information you can read a PechaKucha talk he gave at StattLab, Berlin, on 22 June 2023.