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Turkey, Germany

Hatiye Garip

Illustrator and comic artist

Hatiye is a disabled illustrator and comic artist from Istanbul, now based in Cologne. She likes to draw birds, flowers, and ordinary moments. She is interested in accessible illustration, comics, graphic medicine, as well as experiments with onomatopoeia and field recordings. She is also the founder and creative producer of the Accessible Lines project.

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Hatiye Garip

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A black and white self-portrait of the artist Akile Nazlı, drawn with pencil. Nazlı is in the centre of the illustration. She has big dark colored curly hair, in big circular shapes around her head. Her eyes are looking at the right side of the picture, making her look as if she is thinking about something. Her face is neutral and a little bit sad. She wears a sweater with a crew neck.

Akile Nazlı Kaya

The illustration shows a self-portrait of Ender; there is a single character facing the viewer. The character is black and white. Surrounding the character is a flower motif with neon red colours, repeating (composed of identical drawings) except for the corners, and in some parts, it remains behind. The character, dressed in a hoodie and denim pants like an ordinary young person, has a completely contradictory situation in his head, which can be described as terrifying but also cute due to being drawn with a humorous tone. In the upper left corner, a small cute bat-like creature resembling a furry ball pulls the skin of the character's face gently, drawing all attention directly towards us while revealing the character's skull on the right side of the head, as if pulling a blanket from a bed. There is a visible skull on the right side of the character's head, separated from the skin above. There is no blood or detailed other tissue between the skin and the skull; this intense and frightening movement is drawn with a simple, cute comic style. The character's large eyes and huge pupils, almost covering the entire eye, look directly at us with attention and a sense of vacancy. The character is holding a hand scythe similar to that of the Grim Reaper. Designed as a combination of the Grim Reaper and an ordinary young person, this character has taken on a frightening, cute, and humorous appearance.

Ender Yıldızhan

In this digital self-portrait, Laura's stylised head is illustrated with black ink against a flat baby-pink background. A girl tilts her head playfully but is shy, sticking out a tiny tongue and featuring big manga eyes with sparkles. Three lines on her cheek represent a slight blush. Big squared glasses frame her eyes, filling half of her face. She has a tiny pointy line as a nose and big ears adorned with an earring. A headscarf adorned with hair clips is pinned behind her shiny black inked hair, which includes a side fringe curled at the end.

Laura Socas

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