"49th Literary Week: "Trip with a Drip" – Reading & Discussion with Josephine Mark"

Description

Personal crises are represented in Josephine Mark's *Trip with a Drip* by a diverse cast of characters. First, there's the wolf. Because he accidentally saved his life, he suddenly has a rabbit on his hands. Rabbits! You just eat them and that's that! If it weren't for the wolf code, which obligates him to now take care of the little rodent's well-being. However, this wolf faces its own existential challenges – after all, he's dragging around a bothersome IV drip and a lengthy medication regimen. These infusions, the constant nausea. And now a wolf too! Wolves! They just gobble you up and that's it! But this wolf is so... different. And, to his credit, he knows what he's doing.

Together with Josephine Mark and her unlikely group of friends, we embark on a fast-paced road trip during a reading, complete with all the trappings: trigger-happy hunters, cheap motels, bears, and freezing IV bags. The subsequent panel discussion and audience Q&A will not only provide insights into the background and creation of this successful comic, but also explore the possibilities of artistically portraying and making tangible experiences of crisis.

Josephine Mark, born in 1981 in Naumburg/Saale, works as an illustrator, comic artist, and graphic designer. Since 2004, she has published comics and cartoons, including on her successful blog puvoproductions.com. Her award-winning comic road movie *Trip mit Tropf* (Trip with Tropf) and her comic adaptation of the *Bärbeiß* stories by Annette Pehnt and Jutta Bauer were published by Kibitz. Mark studied cultural and media education in Merseburg. Josephine Mark lives and works in Leipzig.

Moderation: Dr. Elisabeth Hollerweger and Sarah Sudikatis, Bremen Institute for Picture Book Research.

An event organized by the Bremen Institute for Picture Book Research at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation.

Where and when

Free event