Marlene Krause // *1984, Germany. Marlene founded the comics anthology Two Fast Colour together with Martina Lenzin. She has contributed to publications like ORANG, Colibri, Nobrow and Turkey Comix. Her first graphic novel ‘A un autre endroit’ is published by L’Association in May 2013. Marlene loves black chocolate with almonds and riding her bike up and down the hills of Barcelona.
Now read about her adventures drawing her comics for š! #13 'Life Is Life':
It says in German: "Happy New Year! oh,
what's that? ---My broken collarbone--- My bike is well though... See you soon!"
Anyway, a left arm that you can't use is
no problem for a right-handed drawer, you may think. But as drawing is not only
holding a pencil, things became difficult, and I had to draw my story for š!
like this:
That's me sharpening a pencil:
Drawing with the geometrical triangle:
As I could not go by bike for more than one month, I had to
take the metro and because I must not carry heavy things, I have this little
shopping cart. I can't go up the stairs with it, but because I hate to stand on
the escalator, I walk up and wait for it to follow me. It's a strange kind of amusement and people stare
at me sometimes.
After 6 weeks I was allowed to take off
the sling I had been wearing to help the healing of the bone. My left arm was
about half as big than before because all the muscles vanished, so I had to do
physiotherapy with a guy called Lluis in the hospital. In the physiotherapy gym
it looks more or less like this:
So, yesterday I went to see doctor
Proubasta (this name is a strange combination of spanish and catalan and means
Dr. Enough-enough!) who looked at my X-ray pics and then told me that I'm fully
cured now! Olé!
Thanks a lot to Marlene for her painful insight! Quite amazing what you can do despite a broken collar bone... Marlene has stayed very active, as you can see on her blog: marlenekrause.blogspot.com
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