Aisha Franz
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Aisha Franz is a freelance comic artist and illustrator based in Berlin. She studied Visual Communication with a focus on illustration and comics at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, where she later also taught as a lecturer. Her work oscillates between narrative drawing, experimental comics, and visual observations of everyday life. In addition to her artistic practice, she regularly teaches and mentors at universities in Germany and abroad, including Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, and Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Together with the Berlin-based print studio Colorama, she runs “Clubhouse,” an international residency and publishing project that supports experimental comic artists.
Aisha Franz's project is a graphic novel about the tension between the biological clock and artistic self-realization as well as the urge for self-optimization.
Selected Publications
2024 | Mantequilla (Spanish), Apa Apa Comics
2024 | Drei aus der Zukunft, Reprodukt
2022 | Work-Life-Balance, Reprodukt
2020 | Das Jungfernhäutchen gibt es nicht, Maro Verlag
2018 | Shit Is Real, Drawn & Quarterly
2011 | Alien, Reprodukt
Selected Awards
2022 | Max & Moritz Award for Work-Life-Balance
2020 | Working grant from the Berlin Senate (Comics)
2019 | Shortlisted for the L.A. Times Book Award for Shit Is Real
2012 | Sondermann Award for Young Artists