Jamiri

Jamiri (actually Jan- Michael Richter, May 3, 1966 in Blankenstein ) is a German comic artist. The artist name is an acronym of his bourgeois name.

Biography and Personal

Jan- Michael Richter attended from 1972 to 1985 a Waldorf school in Bochum. In 1985 he started at the Ruhr- University Bochum studying German literature, comparative literature and philosophy, but changed in 1986 in the Communication Design at the then University - University of Essen. Already during his studies he worked for several years as an illustrator for advertising agencies, until he could earn his living primarily as a cartoonist since 1990.

Since graduating Richter worked as a bartender, up to the task of his own restaurants Haferkamp in 2003.

Richter lives in Essen since 1986. In 2000, he married his girlfriend, with whom he lived together since 1990. Judge is a cousin of former football player Mehmet Scholl.

Publicity and dissemination

Judge draws since his childhood comics. In 1990, he began to make money. He was first " house artist " of the Ruhr - city magazine Marabo 1992.

Since then he has published monthly comics in current magazines, so in the largest-circulation German student magazine Unicum. 2003-2012 was Jamiri house artist from Spiegel Online.

In addition Jamiri published comic books in the classic format (A4 size with 48 pages ), which are currently being published in Wuppertal Publisher Edition 52. Since 1994, ten of these albums were released, also a "Best of" in a smaller format.

Topics

According to the definition of comics ( several successive images ) is Jamiri both comic artist and cartoonist, as a part of his drawings consists of only one image. He describes himself as " cartoonists ".

Jamiri Comics act most of his alter ego. Many events are borrowed from actual events. The information printed in Unicum university magazine comics themed the battle with the dominant girlfriend with recalcitrant computers, broken cars and increasing age.

Jamiri moves with his comics largely on private topics. Even occasional opinions on social issues are usually packed in everyday scenes. He points to contradictions, by linking regular flights of intellectual and mundane daily activities and presents to each other in contrast.

Style

Jamiri draws freely his comics and styling by first determines the background in fundamentals and then he draws about the people involved. Cie coloring he makes at the end. First Jamiri worked with various fineliners and color pencils on paper, since August 2002 until now then with a Cintiq Interactive Pen Display from Wacom and the software Adobe Photoshop. He considers it important to note that he does not use the digital possibilities of reproduction to mere copying and pasting content, but still each picture emerges step by step by hand. Digital tools he relies only at points a to expand its expressive possibilities. For example, to generate gradients, blurring, "bleeding " of virtual characters spikes or the like. A little insight into Jamiri operation gives the album " L' argh pour l'art ", which sees itself as a purely artistic showcase and contains no classic comics.

Works

Comic books

Other monographs

• Bochum locally (1990, Bospekt -Verlag, Bochum) Cartoons about Bochum pubs and bars in booklet form
• WP driving Berg ( ed.), " master of comic art - Jamiri " (2013, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich) ISBN 978-3-88897-826-5

Contributions in collected editions

• Author Community: Animation 2000 (1999, rollercoaster -Verlag, Kiel)
• Marcel Feige: The Great Comic Book Encyclopedia (2001, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin)
• Winfried Ulrich: Didactics of German Language (2001, Klett Verlag, Stuttgart )

House signatories of periodicals

• Marabo ( Ruhr City Magazine ) (1992 to 2004)
• Unicum (since 1993) Chance ( student magazine of Unicum, from 1999 as a " Unicum Abi " )

Individual articles in periodicals

030 Magazine Berlin, Airbrush Art Action, Berliner Zeitung, Coolibri, Designers Digest, Digital Arts, Hamburger Morgenpost, chief Separate oven, info 3, Magic Attack, Neue Ruhr Zeitung, Petra, Prince, Ran, taz, WDR online, West German General newspaper, Wieselflink