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Article: Morgenstadt 2050

Posted: April 1, 2012

Here’s my introduction to a 208-page trilingual print anthology compiling a fascinating collaborative online comics blog, updated weekly, entitled Morgenstadt 2050, otherwise known as issue number 107 of the Moga Mobo series of free comics. This project is being co-ordinated by the enterprising Berlin-based Moga Mobo collective, consisting of Legron (alias Thomas Gronle), Titus Ackermann and Jonas Greulich, in partnership with the Goethe Institute in Taipei, Taiwan. The trio are presenting their German comics alongside contributions from thirteen Asian creators. All of them use comics to explore life in the cities of today and in the not-so-distant future of 2050. Co-ordinator-cartoonist Titus Ackermann informs me that, after its successful debut in Taiwan , their accompanying exhibition of illuminated mini-dioramas set inside a stacked metropolis of cardboard boxes will be touring to Beijing, Nanjing and maybe Shanghai this August and September. Read the rest of my Article here…