Behind the Comics XV - Lai Tat Tat Wing

'Behind the Comics' continues with an insight into the work of š! #14 'Sports' contributor Lai Tat Tat Wing.

Lai Tat Tat Wing // *1971, Hong Kong. Lai Tat Tat Wing is one of the most prolific Hong Kong comics artists. He’s been published over 20 conceptual and experimental comics books in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and also in France. Recently Wing devotes his energies to theatre and animations for television. He loves sports and goes swimming 2-3 times a week.

Wing: Hello, I am a 41 years old comic maker from Hong Kong. Crazy about doing comics already when I was very young. I used to bring my hand made comics to school and share them with my school mates, most of the stories were about fighting between animals and silly things happening on the school playground. One of the strangest stories that I remember was a little boy who always picks up food which was left on the playground by his school mates and puts it into his mouth. How I love strange stories!

My handmade comics at the age around 10 years old

Behind the Comics XIV - Jeroen Funke

'Behind the Comics' continues with an insight into the work of š! #14 'Sports' contributor Jeroen Funke.

Jeroen Funke // *1976, The Netherlands. Jeroen is part of the colorful comics group Lamelos (featured also in kuš! #4 'food' and 'š! #4 'Lost in the City'), founded with his buddies at the Kampen Art Academy in 1997. He also creates a lot of solo projects, like murals, children’s books, monstersuits and comics books with his characters Victor & Vishnu, Pinky and other funny guys.

Visit the site of his collective Lamelos and his flickr!

Jeroen: Ready to get started!

š! #14 'Sports' preview

On August 27th we release š! #14 with the theme sports! 

For this issue 22 international artist sent us comics and illustrations about sports. Don't worry, you don't have to be super sportive to enjoy these stories. By reading them you probably also won’t burn many calories, but at least you might not break your leg either. Instead you could find inspiration to become more active or get some excellent excuses to keep on avoiding physical exercises.

This time there are  less artists, but the same amount of pages as usual, therefore you get to enjoy some slightly longer comics. You still need to wait some days to hold this issue in your hands, but you can already pre-order it now!

Enough talk, let's have a look at the Cover by Amanda Baeza:

Ready, sweat, go!

Full contributors list: Amanda Baeza (Chile/Portugal), Anna Vaivare (Latvia), Conor Stechschulte (USA), Dace Sietiņa (Latvia/The Netherlands), Dāvis Ozols (Latvia), Emelie Östergren (Sweden), Ernests Kļaviņš (Latvia), Jeroen Funke (The Netherlands), Josh White (USA), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Lai Tat Tat Wing (Hong Kong), Luka Va (Lithuania), Marc M. Gustà (Spain), Marlene Krause (Germany), Mārtiņš Zutis (Latvia), Michel Esselbrügge (Germany), Michiel Budel (The Netherlands), Mikus Duncis (Latvia), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Ratigher (Italy), Rūta Daubure (Latvia), Søren Mosdal (Denmark)

Summary: š! # 14 'Sports', Format A6, 22 artists, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, English, locally printed in Riga on environmentally friendly paper, ISBN 978-9934-518-05-8, will be released on the 27th of August, 2013