For the first time - but not the last one - I collaborated with writer Avi Kotzer. More to come, that's for sure. You can see the short story in full color at

http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2009/07/08/subway-stories-3-thomas-baehr/

My thanks go to Avi, Brian and Dean!

And yes: No penguins this time.

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Current Music: Billy Strayhorn - Take the "A" Train

a furore normannorum, libera nos, domine

For some reasons, some weeks ago, I did a sample page with two fighting Vikings. It is very European style, and I like it that way.

Tags: vikings comics normans sword thomas baeh
Current Music: The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow

Recently I went to a workshop at my most beloved comic store Bergen Street Comics. My friends and fellow artists George O'Connor and Nathan Schreiber lead this free workshop about how to do comics, and I - a teacher myself - was curious how they do that and asked to peek in. Well, they seated me at a table and made me a student ... you know what, it was fun. I got a photo and had to do a page out of that. Here is the finished page: (Click to enlarge)
The photo shows some punks sleeping on a trashy floor.
The page I did out of that is pretty much a step back to my first published comics back in the eighties/nineties in various punk zines in Germany. The guitarist looks pretty much like Django, one of my old characters. Anyway, the lyrics are from the Beowülf song Drink Fight Fuck. I haven't heard that song for ages and I'm not sure about the second line. This was the fastest page I did in a looong while. And it was fun - maybe I should do that more often.

Nathan and George will teach comics at their studio XOXO in Brooklyn. Go there! More infos here
http://www.xoxocomics.com/ 

Enjoy the summer everyone!

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Current Music: Minor Threat - Straight Edge

I'm not a hockey fan, but for some reasons I have the feeling, I have to congrat the Penguins from Pittsburgh:  Congratulations.

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Current Music: Lungfish - Rainows from Atoms

Well, yes it was hot. And the new location and everything ... but anyway: It was great meeting all this people, getting all this great feedback and seeing my stats at ACT-I-VATE rising since than. Thanks to everybody who came by. I had a great and exhausting time.

Bill did a photo from penguin Wolfgang and me and my table early sunday:
Good that we did this in the morning, I already look a bit groggy.

Later in the day I took a snapshot of the always crowded ACT-I-VATE table, which was just around the corner of Bill's and mine.
 Everybody is busy, that maybe makes them look better ...

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Current Music: Madness - House of Fun

Donald Duck is somehow the best known comic character in my home country Germany. Don't ask ME why. But it turns out today is Donald's 75th birthday. Congratulations.

Means, he is older than my father. Wow.

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Current Music: PIL - This is not a love song

The month of June usually kicks off with the MoCCA Art Festival, and this year is not different. I will have a table there to present my comics and cartoons. Please come by for some cookies and say hello – it would be a pleasure.

 
The MoCCA Art Festival 2009 - A fundraiser for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

June 6^th – June 7^th     11am – 6 pm

At the Lexington Avenue Armory between 25^th and 26^th Streets.

Admission: $ 10 / day or $ 15 / weekend (MoCCA Members: $ 10 / weekend)

www.moccany.org

 
You will find me at table 215, which I share with my friend Bill Roundy. Check out Bills comics @ www.billroundy.com/comics.html For everybody who is interested, Bill will sell his new book.

 Act-I-Vate will also have a table at the festival, #311, just around the corner of our table. Check out the schedule of artists @ http://www.act-i-vate.com/pressblog I will join my friends at the Act-I-Vate table from time to time, too.

 Please note: I will be at the festival Saturday from 1pm to 6pm, and Sunday from 11am to 6pm. SEE YOU THERE!

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Current Music: Rain - Worlds at War

It's been a while I got the second stuffed penguin from a fan by mail. This penguin looks a little bit familiar, that's why I named him Berkeley ...

Thanks so much!

Tags: berkeley breathed opus penguin comics th
Current Music: Boxhamsters - Der gute Koenig

Come this Saturday, 6pm,  for original art, free comic books and lots of friendly artists to the Bergen Street Comic store www.bergenstreetcomics.com . Act-I-Vate will help this new and amazing Brooklyn comic store celebrate this years Free Comic Book Day. Or is it the other way 'round?

Anyway, I will be there, though I hope to see YOU too.

Tags: free comic book day brooklyn thomas baeh
Current Music: The Pupils - Go to Gone

I knew this band since they came out with Metal on Metal in 1982 (Am I getting old?):  Anvil from Canada.

To be honest: I never liked them. When the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil came out a couple of weeks ago I was curious: They're still alive? A friend visited me from Europe at that time, and we went the first day to the cinema.

Since than, we talked a lot about that movie. This movie is f**king awesome, man! This is not a movie for some Metal heads. This is a movie for the whole family of movie lovers over 17 (A lot of swearing and a frontal nude male person!).

So funny, so sad. These guys are the wombats of Rock'n'Roll. You have to see this. http://anvilmovie.com/

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Current Music: Anvil - Metal on Metal