Nominations

The 25 nominated titles for the "Max und Moritz" Award 2018
in alphabetical order:

A Silent VoicebyYoshitoki Ōima

Translation: Christine Steinle > nominated by the audience

Egmont Manga

When comics address social problems, and do so explicitly with the support of an interest group, they can all too often be filed under the unfortunate category of “well-meaning”. A Silent...

Ambient ComicsbyNadine Redlich

Rotopol

If you are you looking for one of the most modern and innovative comic strips around, look no further. With her Ambient Comics, Nadine Redlich has drawn the beginning and end of all possibilities,...

Black HammerbyJeff Lemire und Dean Ormston

Translation: Katrin Aust

Splitter Verlag

A group of superheroes from the metropolis are living incognito on a farm somewhere in the American Midwest. It quickly becomes clear that these once radiant defenders of justice are dragging a whole...

Brodecks BerichtbyManu Larcenet

Translation: Ulrich Pröfrock based on the novel by Philippe Claudel

Reprodukt

In impressively dark, dense images, Manu Larcenet tells the story of Brodeck, a man forced to justify the murder of a stranger at the hands of villagers who live in extreme poverty and freezing...

Chiisakobee – Die kleine NachbarschaftbyMinetarō Mochizuki

Translation: Cordelia Suzuki based on the novel by Shūgorō Yamamoto.

Carlsen Manga

Everything seems so contemplative, so composed – but behind the calm images, disasters lurk. The parents of carpenter Shigeji have died in a fire. His company and therefore his livelihood have...

Das Leben ist kein PonyhofbySarah Burrini

www.sarahburrini.com / Panini Comics

For almost ten years, Sarah Burrini has been using her extremely entertaining comic strip Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof to combine the absurd with the everyday – often weighing in on current...

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede DestructionbyInio Asano

Translation: Hana Rude

Tokyopop

This is a story about the complexity of the world, about how bad-tempered people can be, about the confusion between facts and fake news, and about all the existential threats that we suppress so...

Der große böse Fuchs / The Big Bad FoxbyBenjamin Renner

Translation: Benjamin Mildner

avant-verlag

Using minimalistic lines and colour washes, French artist Benjamin Renner tells the fable of the big bad fox. The protagonist’s efforts to terrorise the chicken farm are doomed to failure...

Der Ursprung der Welt / Fruit of KnowledgebyLiv Strömquist

Translation: Katharina Erben

avant-verlag

The problem is not men who are not interested in the female sex organ, but those who have developed too great an interest in it, Liv Strömquist proclaims somewhat startlingly in the opening of Der...

Die drei ??? – Das Dorf der TeufelbyIvar Leon Menger, John Beckmann, Christopher Tauber

Kosmos Verlag

The graphic novelisation of Die drei ??? reinvents one of the most popular crime series for children and young adults in the comic-strip format. Whereas the “old” stories featured a cover...

Die Welt der Söhne / Land of the SonsbyGipi

Translation: Myriam Alfano

avant-verlag

Civilisation has collapsed. Those who survived are left to fend for themselves. This increasingly familiar premise has served as the backdrop for countless comics, novels and television series in...

GeiselbyGuy Delisle

Translation: Heike Drescher

Reprodukt

In July 1997, Christophe André, an aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, was abducted in the Caucasus and imprisoned for 111 days, most of them spent handcuffed to a radiator in a bare room. In...

German Calendar No DecemberbyBirgit Weyhe and Sylvia Ofili

avant-verlag

This is the story of Olivia, a young woman from the oil city of Warri in southern Nigeria, who can barely wait to go to boarding school. The daughter of a white German mother, she is reluctantly...

Gung HobyThomas von Kummant and Benjamin von Eckartsberg

Cross Cult

Benjamin von Eckartsberg and Thomas von Kummant’s Gung Ho is a remarkable achievement, even by international standards. The end-of-days action series tells the story of a village under siege. A...

Herbst in der HosebyRalf König

Rowohlt Verlag

A book about the dark side of male and human ageing that is also a joy to read? Not an achievement that many authors or illustrators can lay claim to. In Herbst in der Hose, Ralf König once again...

Maggy GarrissonbyLewis Trondheim and Stéphane Oiry

Translation: Resel Rebiersch

Verlag Schreiber&Leser

Maggy Garrisson is brash, snarky and devoid of scruples; she lives on junk food and beer, and drifts into a career as a streetwise private detective more by chance than by design. When she’s...

Mühsam – Anarchist in AnführungsstrichenbyJan Bachmann

Edition Moderne

A delightful comic page: Erich Mühsam, penniless poet, socialist agitator, timid bohemian (1878–1934) vainly in search of himself, or rather, in search of his works in the bookshops of Munich:...

Nick Cave – Mercy on mebyReinhard Kleist

Carlsen Verlag

What do you do if you’re growing up in a dreary one-horse town in Australia called Warracknabeal, and find out one day that you have the unruly heart of an outlaw? There is only one thing you...

Schläfst du?byDorothée de Monfreid

Translation: Ulrich Pröfrock

Reprodukt

An extreme portrait format, perfectly suited to the bunk beds featured inside, sets the scene for Dorothée de Monfreid’s take on the timeless “I can’t sleep” story. Eight dogs...

The ArtistbyAnna Haifisch

www.vice.com / Reprodukt

An ailing avian being, in conflict with itself and the world – at first glance, the protagonist of Anna Haifisch’s The Artist does not seem especially likeable. Nevertheless, the creature...

Tracht ManbyChristopher Kloiber

> nominated by the audience

Plem Plem Productions

The good thing about Tracht Man is that you don’t have to spend long wondering whether the whole thing is actually intended seriously, while merely giving the impression of irony. For many...

TütibyDominik Wendland

Jaja Verlag

Plastic bags have had a bad rep for some time, primarily for environmental reasons. However, the central character in Dominic Wendland’s comic grotesque Tüti is such a heinous villain that all...

Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein / How I tried to be a good personbyUlli Lust

Suhrkamp Verlag

Ulli Lust, a budding artist in her mid-twenties in Vienna, is in love with two men: twenty-year-old Georg, with whom things have fizzled out in bed, and Nigerian refugee Kimata, with whom she embarks...