Mawil & Uli Oesterle Signing

Mawil is part of the influential Berlin comics collective Monogatari, is an award-winning cartoonist, and regularly teaches at comics festivals in Europe. His lively illustration style last appeared on our shelves in the form of The Band, in which he relives his schoolboy fantasy of being in a rock band, and Home & Away, which is about growing up in East Berlin after the wall came down, and fighting videogame addiction. Joe Matt (Spent) thinks it’s brilliant. They join Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare and We Can Still Be Friends on the Gosh! shelves.

Uli Oesterle is the author of several graphic novels in German, is also a graphic designer, and has provided countless illustrations for advertisements and magazines. Over on his blog he regularly posts his latest cartoons for magazines such as Playboy, joining legends such as Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Gahan Wilson and Vargas in the well-thumbed pages of Hefner’s finest. His first book from Blank Slate is Hector Umbra, a sci-fi detective story involving a trip to the realm of the dead. One to watch if you’re a fan of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy.

We’ll have a bunch of their books for you to purchase on the night, and following their signing (6pm to 7pm) the two will be in conversation with Alex Fitch (Panel Borders) as part of Paul Gravett’s Comica festival. You’ll also get a chance to ask some questions of your own before the night is through!