Tag Archives: Rotopol Press

VON SPATZ

Written and Illustrated by Anna Haifisch

The Von Spatz Rehab Center is located in the hills of Santa Monica. A mental hospital for artists and show business employees, with a group of psychiatrists and nurses available to calm their nerves. Patients are encouraged to devote themselves fully to their recovery and artistic work in this place.

Paperback / 180 x 230 mm / 68 pages / Rotopol Press

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PANIKTOTEM

Written and Illustrated by Nadine Redlich

In this collection, Nadine Redlich plucks apart a bunch of emotions. Anyone who can relate to phobia, lethargy, stress, panic or resignation will take great pleasure reading  Redlich‘s intense examination.

Rights sold: Italian

Paperback / 150 x 215 mm / 96 pages / Rotopol Press

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STONES

Written and Illustrated by Nadine Redlich

One imagines that existence as a stone is rather cold and hard. Does a stone have feelings? Of course not! But far from it. Nadine Redlich shows us what nobody thinks is possible in her new book: stones have feelings. They are sensitive and soft contemporaries who like to be touched and sometimes get out of their skin.

Paperback / 150 x 215 mm / 80 pages / Rotopol Press

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DOING THE WORK

Written and Illustrated by Nadine Redlich

There are days when you cannot avoid the challenges of life, when even the distractions from the distractions have lost their power. After her soulful exploration into the emotional world in STONES and her meditations about fear in PANIKTOTME, Nadine Redlich now brings attention to the struggles of everyday life

Paperback / 195 x 270 mm / 96 pages / Rotopol Press

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WHERE DENSE BRANCHES INTERTWINE WILDLY

Written and Illustrated by Julia Kluge

A magical book that picks up on rituals around falling asleep. The story takes us to a place between turning off the light and the start of a dream. In the wilderness of entwined branches and enchanting creatures, the little grandmother emerges with her warmth. She is the ideal companion through the forest at night.

Hardback / 210 x 250 mm / 28 pages / Rotopol Press

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SCHAPPI

Written and Illustrated by Anna Haifisch

It’s such a thing with diplomacy in the animal kingdom! You often have different views, but generally try not to step on anyone’s paws or claws too much. But what if the mouse is a racist? And the weasel looks so damn delicious?

Rights sold: French, English and Swedish

Hardback / 200 x 255 mm / 92 pages / Rotopol Press

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SOLA

Written and Illustrated by Malwine Stauss

“Sola” begins with the narration of a dream in luminous shapes and colours – a utopian place of refuge. But like in a moment of awakening, the harmonious ideal breaks against a reality that offers neither security nor confidence. It is a reality in which crises like climate change threaten the fragile balance of the environment and call the certainties of our everyday lives into question.

Hardback / 170 x 240 mm / 44 pages / Rotopol Press

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SANDRO

Written and Illustrated by Alice Socal

SANDRO is a late coming-of-age story of 26-year-old Pallas, who cannot free himself from the embrace of his childhood friend, Sandro. Undeterred, Sandro penetrates all stages and events of growing up with his tenderness and enormous love, confronting the protagonist with a seemingly insurmountable problem: how can he progress in his life without losing the magic and spontaneity that have distinguished his childhood games and dreams?

Rights sold: Italian

Paperback / 175 x 240 mm / 32 pages / Rotopol Press

HOW MUCH LONGER

Written and Illustrated by Alice Socal

Loosely and yet meaningfully, Alice Socal describes the experiences of her pregnancies in an interplay of irony and perplexity. Combining text and image, she organises her doubts, fears, expectations and wonders of this special time. In the leading roles: a cat as alter ego, a dog as boyfriend and a seal as the pregnancy itself.

Paperback / 165 x 195 mm / 124 pages / Rotopol Press

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NIKA, LOTTE, MANGOLD – THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING HAPPENING

Written and Illustrated by Thomas Wellmann

Time never stands still in Dackeltal and there is a lot to explore and to experience – in twelve new episodes: the friends find themselves in an epic snowball fight. Lotte is not happy with the idea of celebrating Christmas with her dad’s new girlfriend. Nika, Lotte and Mangold with an underestimated challenge: child sitting. And much more…

Rights sold: French, Catalan and Galician

Hardback / 165 x 195 mm / 84 pages / Rotopol Press

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