It's 3 Am Here In My Country But I Just Came Up With Something Hilarious

It's 3 am here in my country but I just came up with something hilarious

Imagine if Homuncolossus' name was like... John or something. Just the most basic white name you can imagine.

Like.. Homuncolossus, the dark bloodthirsty monster of the Bookholm catacombs, the dreaded and renowned Shadow king Steve

i swear if moers was more popular there would be like thousands of hildecolossus coffee shop aus and angsty fics out there ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

i feel like millions of English-speaking contemporary romance writers struggle with fleshing out strong and convincing romantic relationships in their works while the craziest, most serious and reckless magnetic 'love-and-affection' magic was accidentally assigned to a couple of barely humanoid creatures in a whimsical fantasy/dark fairy tale book written by a reclusive German author

So, a new Zamonia book was announced on december 19th (I only noticed now #fakefan) titled "Das Eichhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte" (translated "The squirrel that wanted to live backwards"), a collection of 20 short stories by Mythenmetz.

ngl lads, I'm tired...

And because i had nothing to do and my charcoal has to be good for something, here's an illustration of general ticktocks tower

I dunno if the door is small or if the tower and everything is really big but anyways

I might make some more art, some people rly seemed to like my first post (thx)

Walter Moers, one day you will be the death of me!

Instead of giving us new information on Castle of Dreaming Books, he announced yet another book that was on nobody's radars.

The One-Horned Squirrel that wanted to live backwards (Twenty Zamonian Flables) will be released on September 4th.

Ein Einhörnchen, das lieber rückwärts leben möchte; ein Werwolf, der ein Wiewolf sein will; eine fleischfressende Pflanze, die gern Vegetarierin wäre; zwei Vampirgeierbrüder, die Aas verachten – etliche Bewohner des Kontinentes Zamonien haben Probleme mit ihrer Identität und daher kein leichtes Leben. Aber ob Dummwolf oder Schlaufuchs, ob Schmiegehäschen oder Halbtagsfliege, ob Froschling oder Buchling, sie alle finden ihren Weg in dieser Welt, in der die Fantasie und der Humor völlig außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Zwanzig zamonische Flabeln* über diverse Spielarten zamonischen Daseins aus der Feder von Bestsellerautor Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, kongenial übersetzt, illustriert und mit einem Nachwort – »Humor ist ein ernstes Geschäft« – von Walter Moers. *Die »Flabel« bezeichnet eine humorvoll-anarchische zamonische Kurzgeschichte und kennt, im Gegensatz zur klassischen Tierfabel, keinerlei Moral.

A One-Horned Squirrel that wants to live backwards; a Whowolf that wants to be a Howwolf; a carnivorous plant that wants to be a vegetarian; two vampire vulture brothers that despise carrion - several inhabitants of the continent Zamonia have issues with their identity and a hard life because of that. Whether Dumb Wolf or Clever Fox, Snuggle Bunny or Half-Day-Fly, Frogling or Bookling, they all find their way in this world where fantasy and humour have completely escalated.

Twenty Zamonian flables* about certain varieties of Zamonian lifeforms penned by bestselling novelist Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, congenially translated, illustrated and provided with a postscript - "humour is serious business" - by Walter Moers.

*A flable is a humorous-anarchistic Zamonian short story and knows, contrary to the classic fable, no moral.

Oh my god @ the Russian cover of Rumo

There is so little in this picture but also So Much.

I don't know if Rumo is tiny or if Ticktack is just a Huge As Fuck guy? And Ticktack is decisively human as well, giving HUGE Doctor Doom vibes? This is clearly meant to be the final fight between them in the Theatre of Beautiful Death with the sparks and the blue rain, but it also looks like a meadow on the ground with some volcanoes in the background?

And while I have questions, I also have a huge amount of respect for this, even though the original cover and all versions with Moers's art are perfect to me.