images: © Catherina Hess

Comic and Manga Workshops

I draw my experience from teaching Comics for 10 years now. i coduct workshops in schools, libraries, literary centers, and universities. I can offer a program for all levels of expertise, from Beginners first steps to Masterclass.

workshop languages are English, German, and French.

If you are interested in a comic workshop, please write me.

Previous workshops (selection):

2026 Line and Story, Literaturfest – Munich

2025 Drawing against oblivion, Workshop series – Berlin

2025 AFRICOMICS, for Goethe-Institute – Kinshasa

2023 Comic workshop, Junges Literaturbüro – Lüneburg

2022 Comic workshop, Kunsthochschule – Kassel

2022 Comic club at the Hans-Rosenthal School – Berlin

2021 AFRICOMICS for Goethe-Institute, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar

2019 Hamburg Graphic Novel Days, Literaturhaus – Hamburg

2019 Graphic storytelling, SRH University of Communication and Design – Berlin

2018 COZI Comic and Zine Festival – Frankfurt

2016 Live Drawing/Workshop, Modern Graphics – Berlin

2015 Comic class, Alexander-Puschkin-Schule – Berlin

drawing against oblivion

A series of workshops to shine a light on the many people who were forced to labor under the Nazis.

Over 13 million people from more than 20 countries were forced into labor under National Socialism. Berlin-Lichtenberg was also home to numerous camps and work sites that are almost forgotten today. The project made these stories visible and showed that a culture of remembrance can only be created together.

Under the guidance of historian Ellen Fischer we used historical sources to develop scenes based on four biographies of people who were forced to perform hard labor in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

if you want to read more about the project:

https://licht-blicke.org/zeichnen-gegen-das-vergessen/

Africomics

The Africomics project, initiated by the Goethe Institute Ghana, ran from 2021 to 2025 and aimed to connect comic artists from 16 African countries. During the project period, 14 local comic workshops were held in which participants created their own comics. The project was then concluded with a regional workshop in Accra, to which comic artists from 16 African countries were invited. I had the privilege of leading four of the local workshops, in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Congo, as well as the regional workshop at the end of the project.

The results were published in a book: Africomics une Anthologie

Project Website: https://www.goethe.de/prj/afc/de/index.html