https://www.richardcowdry.de/contact2 daily 0.75 2025-12-02 https://www.richardcowdry.de/about daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7e3dfbbd-c8ff-4b9c-9089-800375b2cf18/Megalosaurusv_web.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/eb4612b5-d90e-4822-9350-2baebb5ee2c9/01_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* I’m Richard Cowdry, a cartoonist from England now living in Berlin. This is an advert I made recently for an issue of Kuti magazine, a comics magazine from Finland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f88373f0-913b-4b6f-b476-a77788708a04/02_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* This is my first comic from 2004. Kartoon Cuts. It was a collection of all the short strips I’d done up to that point. A friend saw it recently in a library in Seattle. I don’t know how it ended up there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/ab2f65fe-f3e9-4b53-a2be-d0cfb390799c/03_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* After Kartoon Cuts I did 3 issues of The Bedsit Journal. It was another anthology, this time with guest artists who fitted the vibe. It was mainly autobiographical and humour comics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/d42e2c4b-df3f-428f-95af-f2d5547a9dd4/04_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Then I organised and edited 6 issues of a comics newspaper called The Comix Reader. There were hardly any comics publishers in the UK in those days so this was a way of getting our work out. Everyone paid towards the printing and we shared out the comics, with everyone getting a few hundred copies to distribute as they liked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/2ac14f17-531d-466b-a198-d3afecf0958d/05_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* I was also working for another newspaper at this time - a music paper in London called the Stool Pigeon. I was doing strips for them like these here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/344e74c2-2b70-463b-9c5b-aa5570ae5ebc/06_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Then I moved to Albania for 4 years. These are typical Albanian scenes. Stray dogs, half constructed yet abandoned buildings, telephone wires. I felt kind of in limbo as far as my comics career went so..... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/918f7a0c-4fb9-4649-819b-c6af80306c0c/07_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* … to stay in touch with friends on the comics scene I started doing illustrated newsletters and emailing them out. It was mainly diary comics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/b51b1bf1-e543-4868-955b-3eab9dcf6e6c/08_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* While doing these newsletters, as a kind of bonus strip I started adding short stories about the history of palaeontology and fossil hunting - this one is about how people thought fossils of sharks teeth and shells had magical properties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/a933d2e0-35a4-4934-8b5a-1090b198efa9/09_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* This one is about how these two German scholars searched for dragon bones in the caves of Transylvania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/83f4e831-8bbb-40ef-a346-c5227e8e76b5/10_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* This is the first complete Ichthyosaur skull ever recorded. Joseph Anning was 15 years old when he found it in 1811. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/e891a15f-d490-444b-8762-54962b1b6996/11_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* As I worked on these history strips I got more into it, and started seeing the potential for a longer work. A kind of scientific mystery story about how people went from using the bible to explain everything to realising the Earth was older than previously thought and that there were these earlier lost worlds buried in the distant past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7dfdc3f1-e8f2-4921-9463-3323edea00a6/12_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* I also got interested in the characters involved, like Mary Anning here. She discovered the first complete Plesiosaur and made many other amazing discoveries. She was a self-taught expert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/efb7fba8-37e8-46ae-91e9-6578a36cb399/13_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* She was out every day looking for new fossils. Everyone wanted her fossils and advice and opinions, but 200 years ago women weren’t supposed to be scientists and so she was excluded from academic life. She must have been incredibly tough to survive in that world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/de9f21da-b24e-4f55-988f-2085dc7c0dfa/14_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Another outsider was Gideon Mantell. He was excluded from the geological scene because he wasn’t university educated, had to work for a living, and wasn’t a member of the Church of England. But he was one of a very small handful of people who discovered the existence of dinosaurs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/bec07351-cb9b-4cef-ab95-3f52c00a3a3f/15_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Another one of this small group was this guy, William Conybeare. Here he’s waiting for Mary Anning’s fossil Plesiosaur skeleton to arrive in London. He’s worried that it might be stolen by a rival scientist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/ec24e3c9-f460-4c55-a36c-5d943715350e/16_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* This is a page from a comics adaption of a science lecture given in 1824 by William Buckland, which was the first attempt to describe a dinosaur (although that word hadn’t been invented yet). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/831d147c-acee-466c-b894-2d769e2897d3/17_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Here I’m illustrating what people might imagine this elephant-sized cross between a monitor lizard and a crocodile would look like. Btw these pages are works in progress the colouring is unfinished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/baf17b90-a30e-465f-abc0-8f1bdeef45ed/18_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* While working on this book I always had other projects on the go. This was for the Comics Invasion Berlin competition in 2020 which won first prize (it’s the first of two pages). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/4f9842e0-7153-4a5e-a614-6f612065fc24/19_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* These are pages from a nonfiction story for Blab! issue 2, a forthcoming US comics anthology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/41060cf5-5139-4a64-beae-c79dd0dcf755/20_RichardCowdry.jpg *About* Finally this is something I’m working on right now… rough pages for a story about Native American cave paintings and creation myths. I’m doing this while finishing the fossil book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/47813a9d-9ed0-47a7-bca7-fbe37d2821ae/hairyman+website.jpg *About* About a year after I gave the above talk (in June 2023) my paleontology graphic novel was picked up by Avant Verlag. It came out in a German edition in November 2025. The two stories that I drew for the BLAB! anthology are long completed. The pages to the left (or above if you’re on a phone) are for Blab! issue 3. Two pages from my paleontology graphic novel ended up in the witchcraft-themed issue of KUTI, the comics magazine from Finland. I’ve started doing a weekly science fiction story which is a collaboration with Peter Lally. I’m also writing a new period story set around 1700. I’m super-excited about both these projects. From next month I’ll be out and about promoting my paleontology book. So maybe see you around if you’re in Germany. https://www.richardcowdry.de/the-comix-reader daily 0.75 2023-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/40d43cce-edb0-4224-8a40-b5e6c25683c4/Screenshot+2022-05-20+at+14.17.13.png The Comix Reader - Comix Reader Issue One, 2010. Cover by Richard Cowdry. The Secret History Of…… The Comix Reader Come join me as I travel back in time.... back, back to the dawn of the 21st century. I was fresh out of college and wanted to be a cartoonist. I had some encouragement, winning a minor award at a Swiss comics festival. They invited me over in 2002 and I had my first insight into the huge Swiss/French/Belgian comic scene. I was stunned... comic artists were treated like stars! The level of funding involved was also an eye opener. Back in Britain there was very little happening. There were occasional comics fairs, but no comics publishers to send my work to. I began distributing photocopied zines and settled into a life of unemployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9d6ec35a-7424-4157-949e-e12fa75e18ec/MG_5112.jpg The Comix Reader - Me with The Bedsit Journal at a comics fair in London (Comiket I think) around 2009. Fast forward a few years and things had changed. There were still no publishers but there was a lot of small press activity. Oli Smith's London Underground Comics were doing weekly stalls in Camden Market, in Brighton there was Sean Duffield's Paper Tiger Comics collective, Oxford and Bristol had their own scenes. Paul Gravett was organising regular fairs and exhibitions. I was doing an anthology comic called The Bedsit Journal. It was a collaboration with my friend Peter Lally and was an honest expression of our lives spent languishing in cheap rented accommodation while trying to figure out how to assimilate into regular society. It featured our own work plus other people who fitted the dark humourous vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/0433d0b4-b49d-453f-977c-5187664ca284/bedsitlife_page1.jpg The Comix Reader - The Bedsit Life page 1. From The Bedsit Journal issue one, 2004. Written by Peter Lally & Richard Cowdry. Art by Richard Cowdry. This story also appeared in Stripburger and MEAT Magazine. The comic was something of a cult favourite.... but it didn't really fit in with the small press scene of the time. It was kind of its own scene. This was the problem really: it was cool there was all this DIY indie comics stuff going on, but apart from a handful of artists like Mardou, Lord Hurk, Bird, or Hannah Glickstein, I couldn't find many comics I could relate to. Most small press activity was geared towards fantasy and heroics. Not that I’m dismissing those genres… I'm as big a nerd as anyone, but at that time I was looking for funny, personal, self-revealing types of work, and this stuff was scarce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/25bda249-1702-48da-ac3b-e1e811127431/45208_423353661713_556856713_5342768_7478947_n.jpg The Comix Reader - Illustration by Jimi Gherkin from 2010. As it happened things were about to change again : a printmaker/cartoonist/zinester then known as Jimi Gherkin appeared and began organising comic fairs in a London pub. Jimi was so friendly, enthusiastic and easy to deal with that comic artists were drawn to his events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/b339899e-b493-4899-be6a-74b9bed207a8/a.jpg The Comix Reader - Poster for The Alternative Press Fair by Lord Hurk, 2010. Helped by Peter Lally, Gareth Brookes and Saban Kazim, he began the Alternative Press Fair, which took place in a church social club in North London. Between Jimi's approachability and openness, and I guess because of the name of the fair, local alternative and underground cartoonists came out the woodwork : Tobias Tak, Kevin Ward, Kat Kon, Tanya Meditzky, Ellen Lindner, Mike Medaglia, Alex Potts, Julia Homersham, Bernadette Bently, Paul Ashley Brown, Saban “Shabs” Kazim, Dickon Harris, Sally Shiny Stars, Sina Evil, Dave Ziggy Greene, Kate McMorrine, Maartje Schalkx, etc, - most of whom I'd never met before. As the first Alternative Press Fair wound down everyone gathered in the bar, and I found myself among a crowd of artists, ALL of whom were doing work I could appreciate and relate to. What a great feeling!! For me this was the start of a new scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/67e29e70-23dc-43ba-b6ed-f51e43c96daf/new_flier_tues.gif The Comix Reader - Poster for The Comix Reader Mega Launch by Ellen Lindner, 2011. The problem (if it was a problem), was that there were still no publishers for our kind of comics. We were all self-publishing and trading with each other. Few of us had any talent for selling, and distributing even a hundred copies of a comic could be tough work for an introvert. But what if we all did something together? I'd heard about a newspaper printer who was open to taking side jobs, and for a few hundred pounds it was possible to get a few thousand newspapers printed. This was interesting but not very relevant to me. Now though I was surrounded by a group of artists who needed and deserved an audience. So what if everyone had a page each, and we got as many copies printed as we could afford? We all chip in towards the costs, everyone takes a share of the print run and sells or distributes what they can of it? People would at least see our work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/736fdd86-1fa5-49b0-8b7e-8b86097460ea/s640x480.jpg The Comix Reader - Ellen Lindner and Julia Homersham selling The Comix Reader at Green Man Festival, 2013(?). Gareth Brookes is probably hiding in the tent. I imagined us selling it on the street like urchin newsboys, "Gitcher Comix Reader!!!" And by keeping the price as low as possible - like £1 - people would have little to lose by trying it out. We could expand the audience for comics! I imagined it like a late 19th century comic newspaper, back in the days before comics were thought of as kids stuff, being read by regular folk with half an hour to kill on the bus, in the pub, wherever. And it all would’ve stayed in my imagination if the Alternative Press crowd weren't up for it, but as it turned out nearly everyone I asked was interested. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/e50b58fb-a41e-4aea-9d21-7d3b6541d0e4/ComixReaderIssue4_Page_1.jpg The Comix Reader - Cover for The Comix Reader Issue 4 by the late Tobias Tak, 2012. If you're going to print several thousand newspapers they are going to arrive in bundles of 100 copies, wrapped in plastic, fixed to a pallette. Where do you store 600kg of comics? We all lived in small rented flats and bedsits. My partner made it clear they weren't coming our way. Thankfully Lord Hurk, at great inconvenience to himself, offered to sneak the delivery into his work place in Tooks Court, London. So a printing date was set for 18th November 2010: 9000 copies. A few cartoonists waited around Tooks Court for the delivery. When the van arrived it couldn't fit down the alley, so the driver had to leave the pallet on the street corner. We ripped open the package and carried 90 bundles of comics down the road to safety (Hurk's storeroom). Thankfully : no rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9d017e04-38e6-4b92-9b17-0bca2b4bc5d7/BWTS7NZIcAAkhuv.jpg The Comix Reader - Elliot Baggott relaxing with The Comix Reader Issue 5, 2013. Cover by Alex Potts. We had a launch party for Comix Reader issue 1. I wasn't sure how many people would make it (imagining myself broken and humiliated in an empty room) but it was far busier than I could have imagined. There were guests before I'd even arrived, and by 7.30 we'd filled the room, and were spilling out into the main bar. After that we began meeting monthly at The Crown in New Oxford Street. Always a great crowd of cool & friendly comics (and non comics) people turned up. Wonderful! It was still a new thing for me to know a bunch of people with the same interests. Looking back it was a thrilling time which I probably didn't appreciate enough. I miss those people sooo much! We made 4 issues over the next two years, with me moving to Berlin shortly before issue 4 came out. Issues 5 and 6 took a lot longer to put together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7ac35a82-63a9-4edc-899e-c4eccd90354d/CCEPXdJWEAAADcV.jpg The Comix Reader - Comix Reader Issue 6, 2015. Cover by Richard Cowdry. Comix Reader distribution was ad hoc to say the least. This was cool in a way as artists could do whatever they wanted with their share of the comics (the print run peaked at 11,000, so there were plenty to go round). The paper was available at music festivals, comic shops, zine fairs, comedy gigs, pubs, etc. But to continue long term I think we would've needed more conventional, predictable distribution. Some shops, like Gosh!, in London, were super-supportive and kept it permanently on display, while others didn’t want to stock it because it was too cheap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/6d9577e7-5b05-4b77-b76b-88397568fc8a/SANY0214.jpg The Comix Reader - Chris Donald, creator of Viz Magazine, with The Comix Reader issue 1. Photo by Saban Kazim, probably taken at one of Shabs comedy gigs. 2010. Most contributors lived in London or Brighton, so these cities were saturated with Comix Readers. I had an easier time selling it when I moved to Berlin ... ComicInvasionBerlin was the perfect home for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/8b7a386b-e643-4e15-bd56-0ec4b4804143/ComixReader3_PAGE_2lowres.jpg The Comix Reader - Comix Reader Issue 3 contents page. Logo drawn by Elliot Baggott. By the last issues it was becoming embarrassing to ask the artists to pay towards the print and delivery costs. We needed a different model to finance it but we only ever ran one advert, which was a sponsored page by Knockabout Comics. Tony Bennet, Knockabout’s publisher, was a big supporter of the Reader. The only other money we got was from Wildseed Studios, an animation studio that was working with Ralph Kidson. We didn’t get any support from the British Arts Council. If we’d got some money, what else could we have done? Peter Lally said that with 20 grand we could have revolutionised British comics. We’d certainly have done something worthwhile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9687628b-5338-4c33-8a6a-3c3a7ebfba15/CR5coverdetailv3.jpg The Comix Reader - Comix Reader Issue 5 cover detail by Alex Potts. 2014. In 2014 I sent Issue 5 to the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême. It got lost in the post, but when it when finally arrived, months later, they kept it for 2016 festival, where it made the selection for best Alternative Comic. That was nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/971f0923-a3da-4491-a348-44d6aa6e70d5/Issue3LaunchPosterweb.jpg The Comix Reader - Comix Reader Issue 3 cover and launch poster. Drawn by Elliot Baggott. Writing this now, I just remembered we were also represented by Diamond Distribution. This didn’t work for us... we would have needed our own alternative distribution (man). Storage was an issue too. When Hurk was no longer able to store the comics they all went to Mike Medaglia’s garage. When Mike left London, thousands of copies were given away, and the remainder went to Julia Homersham’s place. When I moved to Albania in 2015 I felt too removed from the comic scene and figured it was time to stop. Maybe if I'd stayed in London we'd have worked out the financial & distribution side of things. As such I feel like the experiment wasn't completed. I would have liked Julia Homersham to draw the cover for Issue 7. The sad thing for me is that some wonderful cartoonists from the Comix Reader no longer make comics. I wish our society was more encouraging and supportive and placed more value on this kind of art and these kinds of comics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/b73f357a-ba0b-4901-b5dd-e3ea466baaec/comixreaderweb.jpg The Comix Reader - Launch party poster for The Comix Reader Issue 6 at Gosh! Comics in London. Art by Richard Cowdry, Dan Locke, Lord Hurk and Maartje Schalkx. I'm not sure if The Comix Reader will be remembered, even as a footnote, in any official history of British comics, but this account will exist here for as long as I’m able to pay the website subscription fees. Further information: ***Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary about the Alternative Press Fair.*** The old Comix Reader blog (featuring loads of reviews, etc). Review by Rob Clough on HIGH-LOW. Broken Frontier article by Andy Oliver and Amneet Johal about the second International Alternative Press Fair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/d6ac83ab-950b-442b-ab79-07d3bb911d7e/ComixReader2_PAGE_1.jpg The Comix Reader - Lord Hurk’s cover for The Comix Reader Issue 2. The Comix Reader world : Peter Lally, Lord Hurk, Tobias Tak, Julia Homersham, Ellen Lindner, Elliot Baggott, Sina Evil, Alex Potts, Maartje Schalkx, Kat Kon, Saban Kazim, Dimitri Pieri, Alex & Tim Levin, Dan Locke, Ralph Kidson, Paul O’Connell, Mike Medaglia, Noelle Barby, Bird, Gareth Brookes, Steve Tillotson, Craig Burston, Dr.Parsons, Sean Duffield, Bernadette Bentley, Paul Ashley Brown, Tanya Meditzky, Kevin Ward, Dickon Harris, David Peter Kerr, Brenda Henderson, Alex Widdowson, Martin Meeks, Sally-Anne Hickman, Lawrence Elwick, Steven Walsh, Hannah Eaton, Barnaby Richards, Joe Sumner, Scott Jason Smith. Thanks everyone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/fa75d139-ccc0-4e5f-8ed4-7b220ddb7dfa/tobias.jpg The Comix Reader - Illustration by Tobias Tak, 2010. All images shown here are copyright to their respective owners and are protected under international copyright laws. https://www.richardcowdry.de/what-im-up-to-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/dbbecb76-ef05-4ba8-b5d3-33e071a904e6/Screenshot+2025-10-07+at+14.47.18.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f731f341-25c1-4e02-b40a-dd431c98f860/Screenshot+2025-10-07+at+14.47.09.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/264c3e25-ffa3-4840-a0a0-50296a7287f9/Screenshot+2025-10-07+at+14.40.09.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/bdd012de-287f-4f2a-b184-4c7fa2ec2c2e/1covervall3low.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/52f8f1e9-3dab-4934-b476-b0ca9e24baa4/Screenshot+2026-03-06+at+12.48.52.png News - 6 March 2026 Reviews and notices: Nerd mit Nadel Koprolitos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/3931061d-b558-40e4-874d-b0e633cf3257/09f74675-52bc-414d-9802-3fc61413e8e2.jpeg News - 25 January 2026 Reviews and notices: junge Welt Eselsohr magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/2468e132-8562-44de-8b8f-f170fc20b48a/Screenshot+2026-01-25+at+11.17.39.png News Westfälischen Anzeiger No one said anything bad (so far)! It’s 90% positive, with a bit of constructive criticism thrown in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9ea16825-4efa-4ba1-a790-8792e3972641/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+17.09.18.png News - 31 December 2025 I’m VERY happy to be on Ulli Lust’s “Books I liked in 2025“ list. Not only was I influenced by her work, but hearing that she liked my “fossils” project back when I was posting the early pages on instagram, was a big boost to my confidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/51b6821e-71a2-4c6a-90d1-18cb76c106c9/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+16.24.42.png News - 27 December 2025 Reviews and notices: A very nice one by Karin Krichmayr on the Der Standard website (that’s an Austrian newspaper I think). And here’s another nice one on ajum.de (the Education and Science Union). An interesting review in Unsere Zeit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/12f75fcc-3811-4057-a1af-2980e595c2ac/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+16.04.21.png News - 25 December 2025 There is an interview with me on the Avant Verlag website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f47ec34d-a6d9-40a4-8223-3763d238f0cd/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+10.37.08.png News - 4 December 2025 In this month’s tipBerlin magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/0bac11b5-6f80-496a-b0a1-ba17ace4bc20/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+15.08.46.png News - 30 November 2025 My graphic novel Das Geheimnis der Knochen - Eine Geschichte der Paläontologie reviewed on Comickunst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/618c83a6-2d23-4622-a610-650fb7186655/Screenshot+2025-11-27+at+12.11.20.png News - 27 November 2025 At Modern Graphics comic shop yesterday evening. A joint book presentation with Tine Steen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1c02c874-af07-4e50-8fe9-e364d1f94e53/Screenshot+2025-11-16+at+20.17.53.png News - 15 November 2025 My German graphic novel Das Geheimnis der Knochen - Eine Geschichte der Paläontologie is finally out and in the bookshops. I nabbed this photo from Grober Unfug’s instagram page. Comicladen Grober Unfug, Torstrasse 75, Berlin, Germany 10119 Order links are here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/47813a9d-9ed0-47a7-bca7-fbe37d2821ae/hairyman+website.jpg News - 18 October 2025 I just updated the About page of this website, as it’s slightly out of date. The latest developments are at the bottom of the page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f5e6ff66-c574-44e8-9bcd-96a025726e7b/1+Screenshot+2025-10-07+at+14.32.00.png News - 9 October 2025 I'm having fun looking at the the German edition of my book, Das Geheimnis der Knochen EINE GESCHICHTE DER PALÄONTOLOGIE. It's currently at the printer and will be available from mid-November from Avant Verlag. Pre-order links are here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7e3dfbbd-c8ff-4b9c-9089-800375b2cf18/Megalosaurusv_web.jpg News - 23 August 2025 From my forthcoming book "Das Geheimnis der Knochen." Coming November 2025 from Avant Verlag, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7f0edc34-1fc9-48e6-b473-955be70cb54b/Screenshot+2025-08-13+at+06.02.18.png News - 13 August 2025 From Avant Verlag on Instagram : In our series about the authors and artists featured in the 2025 fall program, today we introduce British illustrator Richard Cowdry and his first long-form comic project, “The Secret of the Bones.” Richard Cowdry studied illustration in Brighton and has been publishing comics in magazines such as Vice, Kuti, Stripburger, and Oxford American since the 2000s. With The Comix Reader, he founded an important platform for London's alternative comic scene. He has been living in Berlin since 2012, where he won the ComicInvasionBerlin Award in 2020. “The Secret of the Bones” is his first graphic novel – and is dedicated to his great passion: science and history comics. His book tells an exciting and entertaining story about how paleontology developed as a science in the 18th and 19th centuries. At that time, dinosaur fossils were still considered dragon bones – until researchers such as Joseph Anning, Gideon Mantell, William Conybeare, and the groundbreaking Mary Anning put the pieces of the puzzle together. With fine humour, Cowdry shows how speculation, science, and social change are intertwined. “The Secret of the Bones” will be published in November 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/dd3e0282-469e-4f4d-a84d-9b77ba637313/29website.jpg News - 9 June 2025 I’m currently erasing text for the German version of my book, preparing it for translation. This work is quite therapeutic. I’m also drawing the first pages of a fun sci-fi project. You’ll see that soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/15a7d7b4-6740-422e-96a5-080473a1aaff/3av3lres.jpg News - 22 May 2025 This is the first page from my book, and possibly the last page I draw for this project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/44204f98-5037-4c4a-82e7-42a19f987dee/Timeline.jpg News - 5 May 2025 Page one of a timeline featured in my paleontology graphic novel. It’s just meant to be a fun overview, hopefully kind of bringing things together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7075c308-dcb9-4f7f-bf67-35b3b78f3b1f/18April.jpg News - 18 April 2025 From my book coming later this year from Avant Verlag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/757a645a-a928-48e3-b801-05a9932805f4/2.jpg News - 23 March 2025 Still in progress but I wanted to post something. Early dinosaurs in popular culture! From my book, which is nearly finished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9b5394b8-cf9e-4548-a113-914e73f1093f/Screenshot+2025-02-13+at+14.32.09.png News - 16 February 2025 Colour layer. From page 41 of the book I'm working on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/dd152ef8-651b-4b1a-8a9d-11e4a84e7b37/wonders.jpg News - 26 January 2025 deep into colouring my book. Sometimes I make a mistake and the result is better than the real version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/177ae782-c8ef-4ce6-96a4-e368ff711aa4/90v1.jpg News - 17 January 2025 Tracking down fossils in the 1820s. From my prehistory of paleontology graphic novel. Deadline to finish this book : end of March (aaah!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/75c068f9-46b8-4001-b4cb-fe3b57f1edda/translation2.jpg News - 20 December 2024 Process pic... imagining prehistoric reptiles in 1824. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/14c146df-3da1-4dc2-b479-51670ba996b6/Screenshot+2024-12-17+at+10.17.27.png News - 18 December 2024 Mary Anning on the beach (process pic). Layers of watercolour and pencil crayons are still to be added. There is no text because the English dialogue will be replaced by a translated German version. Deadline : end of March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/abfd71d1-8906-4f8a-81cd-c7bc52f746d7/webimagepages.jpg News - 20 November 2024 Sorry for the lack of updates. I moved house and it's taking a while to get back into my normal rhythms of doing things. I'm busy colouring my dinosaur book, which I have to finish next year. It's crazy how long it takes! I'm sure there are faster ways of doing it, perhaps digitally on an iPad, with a limited colour pallet. But I don't have either. However it's very satisfying when the colour takes the page to a new level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/3040683b-4c3d-47cd-a0fe-c2cb18559f22/escape.jpg News I can't colour the whole day though, so I have a couple of side projects: One is a sci-fi serial which will be posted online at least initially. I'm literally drawing the first page right now. Meanwhile did you see my contribution to this year's Bilderberg Konferenz publication? Perhaps you picked it up at their recent exhibition in the Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin? I'm about to send in my story for Blab issue 3. This leaves me open to start another project, which is to write a book for Moom Comics. More on this soon! Bye for now, and best wishes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f3feb8c2-38f4-403e-87ad-802725e5ad14/455816987_883990306908197_749151887124192471_n.jpg News - 24 August 2024 A quick update in case anyone's looking. I'm just back in Germany from the UK where I had a chance to visit the Jurassic Coast, which was Mary Anning's old stomping ground in the early to mid-1800s. It was great to feel the mud, sand and rocks under my feet. Feel the wind and sun on my face, get my hands dirty while looking (vainly) for fossils, and generally getting a sense of the place. I especially wanted to see the colours of the rocks, sea, sky and cliffs, because I have a LOT of colouring to do over the next few months.... because.... ***My book will be published next year by Avant Verlag in Germany.*** I can tell you more about it later. avant-verlag.de https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/f4a173be-1747-4e33-bddc-c564233d99d6/Page_8panel.jpg News - 12 July 2024 Update I haven't had much to say recently... but it's all good. I'm very busy, but everything I'm doing is in progress. I have my BLAB! issue 3 story that I'm still colouring. BLAB! issue 2 is in the can, and hopefully something about that will be announced soon. I'm also hoping I'll have something to announce about my Before Dinosaurs project, but it's not certain yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/781bd176-9ef4-4b11-ab5b-0edb3630824c/3website.jpg News I'm currently writing and thumbnailing a science fiction serial. It's unlike anything I've done before. It's a collaboration with Peter Lally and I can't wait to start showing it. I'm just now finishing a story for the Bilderburger Konference (Berlin's underground comix group). It's autobiographical, but only in an emotional & psychological sense. I've also just agreed to do a new non-fiction book. I'm really super-excited by it. I'm not going to say anything about yet because it's such a good idea.... and I don't want anyone else to do it first. I'll be back in touch soon. Bye for now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/0b00b5ef-9dad-4e11-9ed9-e374b3c50c0c/colourart2insta.jpg News - 1 May 2024 Happy May Day In Germany it's the 1st of May, in the UK it's the first Monday in May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7df5c611-74e7-419d-9911-30686c7eea74/20240117_144734.jpg News - 18 January 2024 Ordinary/Extraordinary Opening today at 4.30pm is the Ordinary/Extraordinary sequential art showcase at @workersgallery in South Wales - which I'm part of. There are 12 exhibitors : Cai Howells, Michi Mathias, Rachael Ball, Rachael House, John Cei Douglas, Irina Richards, Hatiye Garip, Gayle Rogers, Richard Cowdry, Ian Williams, Myfanwy Tristram and Paulus Linnaeus. Photo by Gayle Rogers. 18th January - 2nd March. Thursdays 4.30-8pm Fridays & Saturdays 10.30am-4.30pm & at other times by appointment & for special events workersgallery.co.uk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/782f18e7-c9f3-49ea-9746-9c8d0f82804f/29.jpg News - 22 December 2023 End of 2023 Not such a bad year. Definitely better than 2020 - 2022, which were brutal. I'm grateful to the friends I have in Berlin (and beyond) - they know who they are - and to the people who like my comics. I feel like I'm making progress, even if it’s glacially slow. It was good to get back into the Berlin comic scene which is a supportive place, at least at the grassroots, street level. Currently I'm trying to decide what to focus on next. I'll probably do some short projects and then see which I feel most inspired to continue. Meanwhile I'll have a story in Blab issue 2. That book should be coming out in spring 2024 from Dark Horse. Right now I'm finishing the art for Blab issue 3. I think this story is the best comic I've done. I'm thinking of doing a weekly diary comic in 2024. Just to help me loosen up and be more spontaneous and as a kind of therapeutic exercise. Like a page a week or something. Just posting it on instagram. We'll see. I'm still adding new material to the fossil book, and colouring it when I have time. This is how a finished page looks like. There were some really great, inspiring books in 2023, plus good podcasts, youtube channels, zines. Despite the wars, mass murders and recessions, the comic scene survives and is even in good shape - at least creatively. See you in 2024! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/83ef1d22-6861-490c-956b-01604002d13b/377311977_996822974909004_1483771719788103678_n.jpg News - 21 September 2023 Reynardine Last Saturday I shared a table at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele for the Graphic Novel Day, which was part of the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin. I wanted to have something new on my table so I made a mini comic especially for the festival. The comic is an adaption of a folk ballad that dates back at least to the 1700s. Reynardine is a little 28 page comic (A7 size). If you want a copy you can PayPal me 5€, $5, or £5 and I’ll send you one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/b0307ccc-190b-479a-88ce-b9377b3b4b8b/1.jpg News - 15 August 2023 I’ve scanned the last page of my graphic novel. I still have lots of colouring, corrections, editing, tweaking, etc. It seems endless! Meanwhile I’m working on a story for Blab! issue 3, and if I can I want to do a new comic for the Berlin Graphic Novel Day in September. Better get back to work… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/c6efd749-7db7-4a09-b2bc-96424755ff0e/6a.jpg News - 30 June 2023 New Publications This month (June 2023) my comics appear in two of the “K” anthologies, KUTI and KUTLUL. KUTI is a quarterly comics magazine from Finland. The theme of this issue (68) is witchcraft, magic, paganism, and the occult. There are some lovely pages in it. My favourites have a kind of meditative, poetic quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/fb034597-6549-4c6d-87de-ca9ee0a27fef/7.jpg News A cool thing is that my story has been translated into Finnish, and the lettering is fantastic. It just looks so good! If you are not already a subscriber you can download it or read the comic on their website: https://kutikutisf.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/kuti68/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1299f995-84e3-42b5-aa16-61153a8617e4/11.jpg News KUTLUL is a comics magazine published in Germany and Holland. This is issue 15 which is sadly the last issue. Edited by Dirk Verschure and Joost Halbertsma it features a massive 128 pages of contemporary comics (132 pages including covers). If you like alternative, underground, personal, funny, expressive comics you'll find plenty of good stuff. I was happy to find strong work by artists I can't believe I didn't know about already. More info on my Instagram page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/0ae186f9-298a-4f87-a9ad-b48376210a62/Screenshot+2023-06-21+at+11.42.02.png News - 22 June 2023 PechaKucha Tonight, 7pm at StattLab - Drontheimer Str. 34 (U7/U8 Osloer Straße) in Berlin. 15(?) comic artists will present their work. 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. I like the concept. Lets see how it works! Event by @antoniocastello at @stattlab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/0e2d9995-886b-47c2-b1ab-e8c120b499b1/343095929_627475808899787_6658859797903756979_n.jpg News - Artwork : Before Dinosaurs by Richard Cowdry. Rough panel. What I’m Up To (May 2023) Still finishing my paleontology graphic novel. Just a few pages left to draw but LOTS of corrections and colouring to do. Hoping to finish it by the time the schools close in July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/9f87817a-4e28-4905-a983-206cefd334ca/343045537_1458644178215636_4515285032821285416_n.jpg News - Artwork : Before Dinosaurs by Richard Cowdry. Rough panel. I really hope people like it. I hope it connects. I hope it’s a fun read. A big question for me now is : what to do next?? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/ebdad206-d0a0-44a9-97a1-37f2a8ec8c18/109.jpg News - Artwork : Before Dinosaurs by Richard Cowdry. Approx. p.112 What I’m Up To (January 2023) Basically I’m working on finishing my paleontology graphic novel. I’d like to have it done and dusted by this summer (2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/d0c5968b-b987-4177-8520-cdb503c31850/91.jpg News - Artwork : Before Dinosaurs. Approx. p.93 I’m writing and drawing the last chapter right now, then I have the epilogue to draw. After that I have a few one pagers that need to fit into earlier parts of the book. Meanwhile I’m scanning pages, cleaning them up & colouring them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/7be0f4e4-f48c-452b-975a-c9d8a08fde95/87v2.jpg News - Before Dinosaurs. Approx. p.89 (?) It's fun seeing how the pages look different when the colour starts going on - how certain parts of the drawing get emphasised, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/ba4650f8-42a3-4bb5-a55b-29ae1076302c/95.jpg News - Before Dinosaurs. Approx. p.97 (?) I’m also about to start working on a story for the third issue a very cool comics anthology. More about that later… Best wishes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/6637c95e-283f-4da7-ba5f-4210c538de5e/panel5.jpg News - NOV 17 Berliner Fenster Comics (Series 5) I recently submitted a (fairly silly) new strip for ComicInvasionBerlin’s new series of U-Bahn comics. Hopefully it appears on their screens sometime next year. Meanwhile here’s the one I made for them last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1660578506184-XXATUAHYHJVEGFB8RYRE/HistoricalComicsCollective_Cowdry_inst.jpg News - AUG 16 2022 The Historical Comics Collective This is a coin I drew for The Historical Comics Collective who are a group of international artists put together by Geri E. Gallas. We are all drawing history based comics. The coin is for a poster being made for this year's @spxcomics on September 17 and 18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/89b524f2-bf22-4635-a5ab-41bbcaf65ba7/ComixReaderMeeting.jpg News - JUN 30 2022 The Secret History Of The Comix Reader The alternative comics newspaper I founded and edited. Read All About It!!! But here not here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1655131163914-ITBBLTMK2NSVW26MW4ZM/Screenshot+2022-06-13+at+16.25.51.png News - JUN 13 Fossil Folklore on youtube Fossil Folklore This is a short "film" adapted from a 2 page comic which I made last year for ComicInvasionBerlin. It's simply made, just using iMovie, but I kind of like it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1638030819561-LOU6QDDN75P8IN2I08LF/BVG_BearsCrop.jpg News - Nov 27 Berliner Fenster Comics A few years back, some time before 2015, when I first lived in Berlin, I saw the comics of Marc Seestaedt on the Berlin U-bahn. They were shown as a slideshow, instagram-style, on the double television screens that you see in each carriage of the U-bahn. One screen displays information about your route, while the other, where the comics appeared, features mainly news stories and advertising. I thought this was great and wondered how he was able to organise something like this. Marc must be good at organising things: he is the founder of Berlin's annual comics festival ComicsInvasionBerlin... some people are able to do this stuff. I have great memories of tabling at the early ComicsInvasion's. They were the most fun I ever had at a comics festival. Plus the artists and guests in attendance seemed to genuinely appreciate my Comix Reader anthology, which made me feel really good about being involved in comics. When I moved back to Berlin in 2019 ComicsInvasion had grown from a DIY, punky, alternative thing into a bigger, more established festival. The festival was also running "seasons" of Berliner Fenster comics to be shown on all the U-Bahn screens. Any comics person in Berlin could submit strips. I drew one and sent it. Hooray! But then ... Corona.... I'm not sure if that season ever happened but there was a new call for strips in 2020. This season did happen. I waited a long time for my strip to be shown and the day it was finally scheduled I was heading out of town. But I had like a 10 minute journey on the U-bahn to get to the train station. Perhaps I could still see my strip...??? I didn't see it... although I THINK I might have caught the last panel of the strip for a split second just as I got on the U6. NB the photo I posted here is fake, I just pasted my art over the screens. Anyway, I just submitted a strip for a NEW season of Berliner Fenster comics. So maybe I still have a chance to see my comic on that screen. Then I will really feel like a Berlin Comic Artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1630757476996-L83DH0CPC4OTOQDSPPE6/Screenshot+2021-09-04+at+13.59.25.png News - Artwork : Bears In Berlin by Richard Cowdry CIB2021 This weekend (4 and 5 Sept 2021) is the ComicInvasion weekend. Many events are happening. Join the event virtually or book a visit to the museum. Visit my virtual table and have a look what other great comic artists have done too. https://youtu.be/ccTn1SP_GOk https://www.comicinvasionberlin.de https://www.facebook.com/comicinvasionberlin https://www.instagram.com/comicinvasionberlin/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1638015724127-LIZXPDSQGOUH23OZI3QF/Exhibition.jpg News - Aug 21 2021 Wonders and Curiosities Exhibition Giants, Elephants, Crocodiles, Stone Seeds… See the bizarre and colourful theories used by early scientists to explain the existence of fossil bones and animals. This exhibition presents selected pages from a documentary comic series about the prehistory of paleontology. Written and drawn by Richard Cowdry. ComicInvasionBerlin Satellite Event. 30 August - 30 September 2021. https://fb.me/e/11okxeBo1 https://comicinvasion.de/events https://comicinvasion.de/event/wunder-und-kuriositaeten/ https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-mitte/bibliotheken/bibliothek-am-luisenbad/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1620197506297-MLPETPN2YZ6SHR5RNBL7/20210411_155429.jpg News - April 8 2021 Save Berlin’s Renate Comics Library! Rette Renate! • All Berlin Comic professionals, sign our letter to the Berlin Minister of Culture! As most of you will know by now, Renate, our beloved comic library and the cornerstone of the comic community in Berlin is in danger of closing down in the next two months. My flatmate and esteemed colleague Sebastian Strombach and I have decided to take action and mobilise the whole comic community to save Renate! To this effect, we have written a letter that we will give to the Minister for culture and Europe in Berlin, Dr Klaus Lederer, asking for financial help to protect Renate. This letter we want all you, comic artists, publishers, critics, comic store owners and employees, all the professionals of our Berlin Comic Community to sign it, as many of you already have. Because we are such a small community, with an online petition we would only get a few thousands signatures at best which isn't so impressive in comparison to the hundreds of thousands some other online petitions can easily get. This is why we have made an actual letter for you to sign to show how committed we all are to defending our community! Because of the actual sanitary restrictions we have to do this one at a time so please, if you are a professional and want to sign the letter, contact me (insta or facebook) or Sebastian Strombach (Facebook) to see how we can arrange to meet (you come to us of we to you). Let's show them what we can do! If you are leaving outside of Berlin, do not feel like meeting face to face with people at this time or are not a comic professional but still want to show you support, we also have an online petition on Change.org here: https://www.change.org/retterenate There you can also read the text from the letter in both English and German. Original Post from Renate and how to help them directly: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMt6-4ABgNB/... Illustration "Rette Renate" by Sebastian Strombach and Paul Winck. Photo credit 1 to 4 goes to @vaconsartirani #retterenate #berlincomiclibrary #berlincomics #renatecomicsberlin #renatecomicbibliothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1608315418629-GB1BV9O9Z4DVQAKM2KIS/Screenshot+2020-12-18+at+19.11.06.png News - Feb 23 2021 Shnipp Shnapp, Nase ab. I had this image in my mind for a long time before I drew it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/e319c37f-f9e6-44b7-95da-546acf97c599/130218130_311796803321437_6171791651411483767_n.jpg News - Dec 1 2020 Comic Invasion Berlin Awards 2020 I am very happy to be chosen as the First Prize winner of the ComicInvasionBerlin 2020 awards. I got the trophy above, plus a bunch of comics and graphic novels. The best part though is that I get to work with Ulli Lust and Kai Pfeiffer. You can watch the award show below : https://comicinvasion.de/en/contest/2020/awardshow/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1608280398633-50JPPWGICYKI09GQ0252/DOKU_RichardCowdry-2.jpg News - SEP 5 Free Comic Day Treasure Hunt Comics : a free publication from ComicInvasion. Still available from various comic shops around Berlin. Neurotitan shop & gallery, Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin Black Dog Comics, Rodenbergstraße 9, 10439 Berlin Renate Comicbibliothek, Tucholskystraße 32, 10117 Berlin. Modern Graphics, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin Modern Graphics, Europa-Center, Tauentzienstraße 9-12, 10789 Berlin Modern Graphics, Oranienstraße 22, 10999 Berlin Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, Leipziger Str. 16, 10117 Berlin Schickimicki Zinedistro, Stuttgarter Str. 60, 12059 Berlin Jaja Verlag, Tellstraße 2, 12045 Berlin” https://comicinvasion.de/en/treasure-hunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbe77d6e9fc3622d512ed09/1607783544182-AID1VOV04W2R1CIUAK1S/117806075_10157462854093017_8452580919845957852_o.jpg News - Aug 14 2020 Pandemic Arts A couple of months ago I applied to be part of a group exhibition organised by Pandemic Healing Arts. I was very happy to be accepted because I was feeling gloomy after a couple of months of Corona lockdown. I needed something creative to focus on. For the exhibition I drew two comics about the frustration of working from home while homeschooling and caring for a reluctant 8 year old son. The photo above is from last night‘s opening of the Exhibition at WIDERKUNST III, Holzmarkt25, Berlin. 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