Choke Book

Zine Fest Berlin - 26. & 27.11.2011

2011-11-22T15:33:00.000-08:00

Come along for a weekend of vanity publishing in Neukölln, I have a table.

More infos on their website HERE.

The Beat Goes On - 2012

2011-10-28T04:54:00.001-07:00

Flip-book and illustrations for the German edition of the beautiful
"The Beat Goes On - Calendarium of Deceased Musicians 2012".
480 pages, 10 x 16,2 cm, linen-engaged hard cover with gold embossing, rounded corners and ribbon.

Wir sind wieder da! "The Beat Goes On" kehrt 2012 zurück, mit noch mehr Toten. Mehr als 1500 verstorbene Musiker und Musikerinnen warten darauf, wiederentdeckt und unter Zuhilfenahme hochprozentiger Getränke gewürdigt zu werden.

ISBN 978-3-940029-84-3
EUR 15,-
Get it HERE.

Willie the Zombie - Still Rotting

2011-10-04T11:42:00.000-07:00

A special GREEK, free edition of the up and coming Willie the Zombie book, "Still Rotting" is online. 40 pages containing over 130 cartoons, mostly published in Virus Magazine, 2007-2011.

Virtually page through it HERE

Drugs

2011-03-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Drugs
© 2011
Size: 10 x 14,5 cm
Cover: ink jet print, 170g
Content: 60 pages, 80g, b/w photocopy
Stapeld
Edition: 50
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Drugs wird beim Fumetto 2011, in Luzern, präsentiert:

Reality Kills

2011-03-16T06:23:00.000-07:00

Das ist ein Comic den ich 1998 gezeichnet habe. Er wird in irgend einer Form bei den Comic-Theater-Tage "Reality Kills - Kriegsbilder im Comic und auf der Bühne" im Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, vom 20.3.–26.3.2011, gezeigt.

First and last releases of 2010

2010-12-21T12:07:00.000-08:00

Emotional Avtomat
© 2010
Size: 10 x 14,5 cm
Cover: ink jet print, 120g
Content: 60 pages, 80g, b/w photocopy
Stapeld
Edition: 50
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The Invincible
© 2006, rereleased in 2010
Size: 10 x 14,5 cm
Cover: ink jet print
Content: 60 pages, b/w photocopy
Edition: 50
Read more

There is now a catalogue of all self published books
here

Keep Up @ East of Eden

2010-12-10T12:20:00.000-08:00

Keep Up screen-prints and comics are now available for viewing and consumption at:
East of Eden - International Bookshop
Samariterstr 10, 10243 Berlin, Friedrichshain (U-Bahn Samariterstrasse)

Exhibition in Zürich

2010-11-21T12:16:00.000-08:00

Galerie 16b
Zürich, Switzerland, Ausstellungsstr. 16b

11 Dezember – 28 Januar
Mi–Fr: 17–20:00, Sa:15–18:00

with, amongst many others, Milk+Wodka

PhotoRoman

The Last Match

2010-10-21T12:19:00.000-07:00

A small contribution to David Schilter's (Kush, Riga) project seems to have gone a long way:
Gallery Artside, Lisbon, Portugal
Next Comic Festival, Linz, Austria
Fumetto Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
Comics Days, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Comicstage, Erlangen, Germany
Gallery MZIN, Leipzig, Germany
Contemporary Art Festival Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia
KomiksFest!, Prague, Czech Republic

To see some pictures, you may go to
http://www.komikss.lv/?section=Events, to see all the names of the
currently 268 artists from 51 countries go to
http://thelastmatch.wordpress.com

Art Show and Concert in Freeborn Sound Studio

2010-07-21T10:05:00.000-07:00

Andy Leuenberger will be showing silk-screened cartoons and artwork in Freeborn Sound Studio. Baron Anastis van Hustler will be playing a concert.
Time: Saturday, 24.07.2010, 19h00
Location: Freeborn Sound Studio, http://freebornsound.com
Eyes: Andy Leuenberger, http://chokebook.blogspot.com
Ears: Baron Anastis Van Hustler, http://anastis.com
Belly & Brain: Bar and snacks available

Exhibition in the Metzgerhalle, Luzern at the Fumetto Comic Festival 2010

2010-05-13T07:33:00.001-07:00

Opening on 21 April, party on the 5 May, closing on 21 May 2010

The Metzgerhalle seems to be the best boozer in Luzern. Only heard good things about it and only met great people in it.

On show were two projects. In the front room 20 original A4 drawings, in three colours. It's a work in progress and may result in the next book.

And ”Keep Up” silkscreen prints on wood.

In the back room were the ”Keep Up Party Packs”, containing a silkscreen print on paper and the ”Keep Up” cartoon book in the back.

Vielen Dank an Silvan, Sara und die Metzgerhalle Gang und Fumetto und die AmazonInnen von Luzern!

Exhibition and book presentation at the Renate Comic Library and Gallery, Berlin

2010-04-20T09:24:00.000-07:00

Vernissage on Saturday, 20 March, closed on 17 April 2010.

Being presented were the new 40 page cartoon book ”Keep Up”, 24 silkscreen prints on wood and on paper and the ”Keep Up Party Packs”.

Renate store-front

Silkscreen prints on wood, in limited editions of 1 or 2.

”Ray Charles” on wood

”Waiting”

”Berliner Soul”

Three colour prints in fancy frames.

”The Plot”

”Fun”

”Keep Up Party Packs” containing a print on paper and the Keep Up cartoon-book.

The Shop

The Invincible on wood and Ray Charles on paper

The evening was rounded off by a great performance by Elyas Khan (www.elyaskhan.com) in the Cafe ”Buchhandlung” next door.

A big THANK YOU!!! to the Renates, Elyas and Melissa, Viktor Buchhandlung, Nikki and everybody who came by sooner and very much later.

Exhibitions

2010-02-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

Exhibition opening: Saturday, 20 March 2010, 19:00

Cartoons by Andy Leuenberger
Live music by Elyas Khan

@ Renate Comicbibliothek
Tucholskystr. 32, Berlin-Mitte
S-Bahn Oranienburger Straße

"Keep Up" is a new cartoon book by Andy Leuenberger, with a selection of forty cartoons. Some of the cartoons have been published in Pardon Satire Magazine and appear irregularly on the online zine dorfdisco.de. On show will be those that have been silk-screened on wood or paper.
http://chokebook.blogspot.com

Elyas Khan is mighty, enigmatic, cosmopolitan and cosmic. He's original, forward and generous enough to liven up this event with his voice, guitar, bass and gadgets, which he uses at almost the same time.
http://elyaskhan.com

Keep Up on Libération.fr - Angouleme Comic Festival feature

2010-01-18T05:09:00.000-08:00

There is feature on ”Keep Up”, the new cartoon book by Andy Leuenberger, (as well as "Willie the Zombie", a comic from 2008 and artwork for Lord Mouse and the Kaylpso Katz) on the blog of the French newspaper Libération.
The video-blog is being hosted by Eric Loret in connection with the Angouleme Comic Festival from 7. - 31. January 2010.

http://angouleme.blogs.liberation.fr/avent/2010/01/17-janvier.html
Entry: 18. January 2010

Here are two of the short video documentaries shown:

Some of the cartoons translated into French and spoken by Eric Loret.

A new angle on the relevance of Willie the Zombie and artwork for Lord Mouse and the Kaylpso Katz, also by Eric Loret.

Keep Up (2009)

2009-12-11T04:27:00.000-08:00

A6, 40 pages, 4/4 offset, © 2009

“Andy Leuenberger’s fantastic cartoons are modern sociological
meditations…” toonpool.com/toonagent

Keep Up is a selection of forty cartoons by Andy Leuenberger. He started the series around 2007 and it continues to grow to date. Leuenberger observes life in Berlin, where l’art pour l’art is standard, where the music industry sprouts and withers, and where survival is uniquely dismissed. His satire concerns abstractions like political correctness, gender dilemmas, gentrification and demographic twists. Social values void of spirituality and lost on distractions, identity based on hip consumer rituals and the longing for spotlight personal cult are favourite subjects. Foul cynicism, vented frustration, hate and rage enlighten his heart. These cartoons deal with everything and nothing.

From toonpool.cm/toonagent Agentur für Cartoons & Illustrationen

2009-04-01T08:21:00.000-07:00

Selected Cartoon
MacBook 13" 2.33 GHz 3GB RAM 250GB HD, 2 filthy dogs

The cartoon »new mac book« is cruel, it hits a whole class of society: in your face. It questions all the values Steve Jobs is representing; this cartoon pulls the legs of all owners of those peculiar white and silver foldable things in the fancy quarters of the metropoles.

»Wow! They look so much better (and faster) on your new MacBook!« If you've heard this sentence before at Starbucks, in a design academy or in between some black shirt nerds, sitting in the shades of trees in summer, you just know two head movements: either you shake your head ("And where do you play 'Farcry', my mac friend?") or you nod ("Oh yes, those new macs are sky-rocketing with the new 'Core 2 Duo' architecture").

To have the apple "on it" or not: it seems that this is the most important question in some of the standardized artist and shopping quarters around the world. Those shiny white and silver thingies fit perfectly into the world of private clinics, noble malls and DJ desks and radiate excruciating exclusiveness and entrepreneurism where no one is. The one who wears apple on XING meetings will probably be hugged on facebook and followed on twitter instantly. A special understatement utters the one who drives up with a black Saab which is tagged with the enclosed white Apple sticker. The sticker drives even more positively on a 106-inch "smart" car – that's the climate preserving roundhouse kick which rushes into your face, asking you how black your carbon fingerprint is by now.

In »new mac book«, the clean machine is not to be spared from the worst: as an inactive and dull thingy, it has to stand the copulation process of two filthy dogs on it, as if it was the classy suede backseat of grandma's Cadillac. The MacBook has been reverted in its meaningfulness: from a device of modern, clean virtuality to a camping mat of archaic, physical fertilisation.

Andy Leuenberger's fantastic cartoons are modern sociological meditations mixed with PC philosophy, served in his individual 'corporate identity', black on white paper with red shading. There's just one question: is The Leuenberger using a Mac?

toonpool.com (04/09)

From Milk&Wodka Rock'n'Roll Edition

2009-03-11T08:58:00.000-07:00

www.dorfdisco.de

2009-02-02T10:22:00.000-08:00

Cartoons appear irregularly on this webzine about the Berlin nightlife, I think …

Willie the Zombie - Exhibition

2008-10-31T08:41:00.000-07:00

Willie the Zombie - Undead Love

2008-10-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

© 2008, 32 pages, A5, 4c offset, Cover: 300g, Body: 135g, Stapeld, 250 copies

Undead Love is the first Willie the Zombie comic book by Andy Leuenberger. It consists of comics, cartoons and picture sories, with a small amount of text in English.

“…what we do know is that Andy Leuenberger has created the most lovable undead in recent times: Willie the Zombie. “ Max Andersson

Willie, the lone hunter is in for some zombie romance. Learn about the trials of love unlived by hot blooded corpses. Tales of yearning, deceit and revenge will warm up your heart and maybe even bring the old thing back to life.

Willie the Zombie has been appearing in three cartoons per issue in the bimonthly Virus Magazine (Raptor Publishing, Frankfurt am Main), Germany’s largest horror culture magazine, since August 2007.

See www.williethezombie.com for more info.

Willie the Zombie @ Berlin Insane - Volksbühne Berlin

2008-10-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

Vakuum Comics

2008-07-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

The Invincible (2006)

2008-06-12T06:09:00.000-07:00

Vakuum (2006)

2008-03-21T10:12:00.000-07:00

Vakuum, miniDV, 2:23min
Comic & Animation: Andy Leuenberger
Sound & Music: Mamasweed

Festivals & Features:
2006 Tromanale Independent Film Fest, Berlin
2006 Umelec (Int. Kunstzeitschrift, Tschechien), DVD-Compilation junger, deutscher Videokunst

Boom Boom Boogie (2005)

2008-03-20T10:04:00.000-07:00

Animation, miniDV, 4:30 min, stereo, Berlin 2005
Direction / Drawings: Andy Leuenberger
Animation: Nikki Schuster
Music: The Scandals featuring Film2
Technique: pencil drawings / computer-montag

Festivals & Features:
2006 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Schweiz
2006 Vienna Independent Shorts, Österreich
2006 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australien
2006 Australian International Animation Festival Sydney, Australien
2006 Festival Bimini, Riga, Latvia
2005 Tromanale Independent Film Fest, Berlin, Deutschland - Preis „Bester Animationsfilm”

Erledigt (2002)

2008-03-18T09:42:00.000-07:00

”Erledigt” (engl.: done, finished, completed…) is a collection of 30 strips and two longer stories in a 3 panel rhythm. It was presented in the East of Eden International Bookshop in Berlin in 2002.

Eat Out (2002)

2008-02-20T09:10:00.000-08:00

Hot Heads (2002)

2008-02-01T09:32:00.000-08:00

Some old trash. It was a desparately inventive and cold winter.