»The Smallest Unit Of Life«

Arne Bellstorf is a German artist, illustrator, graphic designer and occasional cartoonist working and living in Hamburg.

Selected Clients:

Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Bloomberg Businessweek, New York Times, Der Tagesspiegel, FAZ Quarterly, Spiegel Wissen, GQ, Men’s Health, Rolling Stone, monopol, Bayerische Staatsoper (Max Joseph), Das Magazin (CH), Zitty, Chrismon, G+J Corporate Editors, Internazionale, Ernst Klett Verlag, Carlsen, Reprodukt, NDR, Polittbüro, Literaturhaus Hamburg, Goethe Institut

Projects & Publications:

»DIE ZEIT Geschichte«, Cartoon »Zugabe«, 2009—2020
»The Smallest Unit Of Life«, Mini Comic, Fort Bells, Hamburg 2018
»Frank«, Mini Comic, Tiny Masters, Leipzig 2015
»Der Tagesspiegel«, Monthly Sunday Comics Page, 2006—2014
»Orang« Comic Magazine (co-editor), 2003—2013
»Doris«, Mini Comic, The Treasure Fleet, Berlin 2012
»Baby's in black«, Graphic Novel, Reprodukt, Berlin 2010

Magazines, Anthologies etc.:

»MAUDITE!«, l’association, Paris 2016
»Nobrow« Nr. 9 (»It’s Oh So Quiet«), Nobrow Press, London 2014
»Strapazin« Nr. 112/2013 (»Fernsehserien«), Zurich 2013
»Neue Rundschau« Nr. 03/2012 (»Comic«), S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2012
»Kampfkolosse«, Ulama Media/The Treasure Fleet, Berlin 2011
»Comics, Manga & Co« (Exhibition Catalogue), Goethe Institut, 2010
»Kopfkino« (Exhibition Catalogue), Verbrecher Verlag, 2008

Arne Bellstorf →Illustration, Comic, Graphic Design, Misc

+49 (0)40 25494495

mail(at)bellstorf.com

»The Smallest Unit Of Life«

Mini Comic, 24 pages, b/w, 5c dust cover, 148x210 mm, Fort Bells, 2018

Release & Exhibition at Comicfestival Hamburg: Buchhandlung im Schanzenviertel, Schulterblatt 55, Hamburg, Oct. 01—12, 2018

»The Smallest Unit of Life … is a small, strange, charming thing. A literal and metaphorical micro-narrative, it is a timely reminder that all of us are bodies – and bodies composed of 37.2 trillion individual cells, at that – and that the physical impacts on the mental, and vice-versa.«
It’s Nice That, April 2019