About the Author

Frank Schmolke

FRANK SCHMOLKE has been a freelance illustrator and comic artist since 1999. He creates illustrations for print and online media, book adaptations, museums, and the film industry. In 2013, his graphic novel debut TRABANTEN was published by Edition Moderne. NACHTS IM PARADIES (Edition Moderne), his second long graphic novel, was released in 2019 and was one of the most discussed German-language comics of the year, later adapted into a film starring Jürgen Vogel. In October 2020, he followed up with FREAKS (Edition Moderne), a dark cover version of the Netflix film of the same name.
A year later, in 2021, Splitter Verlag published the comic adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek's DER AUGENSAMMLER. Frank Schmolke lives and works with his family near Munich.
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