His 3rd Biblical Comic book (in GERMAN):
Man, at least in the Bible,
is full of corruption and evil,
then along comes a certain One,
to deliver us poor sinners from wrong
so that heaven can be victorious!
What was that you just said?
The Saviour’s already been?
Oh. Right..
So...
How peculiar.
The world, saved? Mankind, free?
Does the trilogy need a Part Three?
But wait! This time, the Holy One’s named Paul,
who, from his old nag, suffers a fall,
then apostles across the world and before long,
we’ve got a new religion!
Then we bend some truths and make some changes,
Oh God, yes, such things come to pass...
And in the end, courtesy of Christianity we get our freedom,
from logic and from reason.
But to our delight,
the Saviour comes back before night
and those who believe, take heed:
The man seems to have a sense of humour indeed!
'König is no caricaturist, but a storyteller and artist' FAZ NET
Bijbels leesvoer voor filosofen, priesters en homo's: Comic book ANTITYP by Ralf König - Rowohlt Verlag 2010
Gay comics in German - ANTITYP - Ralf König comic book | full colour
- Lees ook DEEL 1, het Bijbels geïnspireerde homo stripboek PROTOTYP over Adam en de slang in het Paradijs - Meer over dit door de Bijbel geïnspireerde strip boek PROTOTYP
- Het niet minder religieuze vervolg op Prototyp is de strip
ARCHETYP - over de zondvloed en Noach die chragrijnig op z'n ark staat
See all comic books (graphic novels) or dvd's by artist RALF KÖNIG - als stripboek of film dvd in Gay Bookshop Vrolijk in Amsterdam
ABOUT COMICBOOK ARTIST RALF KOENIG - For decades his bulbous noses have kept the gays company. They suffer and prance, they party and screw, they mourn and age with them. Generations of gays and lesbians and have not only enjoyed but have also been encouraged by his image of the gay scene as the centre of the universe, surrounded like satellites by tragic female figures and muffled hetero men. Meanwhile, König's bulbous noses - KNOLLENNASEN - populate all of world history, from the Bible, through Antiquity and the Renaissance, up to the present day. The merciless disrespect of his work has given way to a subtle irony over the years.
But still he understands his comic strips + Graphic Novels as statements to sociopolitical questions. 'I can perfectly relax and run around without any bulbous nose for weeks, too', maintains Ralf König. But this statement already shows that he is in the innermost part at home with bulbous noses. He dreams their dreams, he listens to their music, he lives and suffers with them. He did not invent and later write down their histories, but rather shared experiences with them. 'I behave like a director with no script, but who starts filming anyway,' says König. He dives right into the events and surprises himself with the speed with which he manages to draw. 'Sometimes I don't know at all what happens on the next page and it's lots of fun and keeps up the excitement.' At the end, there are works which transport their messages almost cinematically, and which drag the reader along with fast cuts and flashbacks. The messages are often shrill because Ralf König has developed his very own type of mad and disrespectful diplomacy. But his messages are always humane in a subtle way and promote tolerance, love for life, enlightenment and responsibility, and not least for themselves: intelligent and funny comics.
