Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Drawing Comics on an iPad

As some of you know, I used to be a comic artist. I had already decided in the mid-90s to draw comics, but my path led me to study computer science and from there into game development, where I worked for many years also as a graphic artist. Since I love comics, I later drew comics independently, which I owe especially to the former Marvel editor Jim Salicrup, for whose new company Papercutz I was able to draw stories for Tales from the Crypt. These days I work as a game developer and write comics on the side, which appear in Germany as graphic novels at SPLITTER-Verlag (MAYA and DARK ZERO). Since I still have the urge to tell stories with drawings myself, a few months ago I started using the remaining time of the day, which I normally spend with my wife on the couch in front of the TV, to try out whether you can draw comics on the iPad from the couch. Here are a few of the pages that were created. The last double page is not finally finished with grayscales and thus incomplete. One page per evening. It works... but it's not really relaxing ;)













Gremlins 3

I am a big fan of 70s and 80s cinema. Especially genre films that celebrated their peak in the 80s. Therefore, I am of course also a very big fan of the masterpiece GREMLINS. I was all the more excited for the release of Gremlins 2 and was bitterly disappointed in the cinema. What have they done with this film? A catastrophe would be an understatement. Where the first part had a perfect mix of magic, emotion, horror, and humor, the second part only presented slapstick and exaggerated nonsense. The film was a satire of the first part. Now a third part is coming to theaters soon, as Hollywood apparently has run out of ideas. I have little hope, but I'm glad that Chris Columbus is apparently taking over the direction. Hopefully he returns to his old form. After all, it was he who conjured the magic into the script of the first part.

I posted a criticism of Gremlins 2 on Twitter, which has now even made it into an article on Metro.co.uk. But see (and read) for yourself: https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/gremlins-fans-baffled-third-film-confirmed-terrible-sequel-24642020/