Gerhard Seyfried (*1948 in Munich) is a German Underground Comics artist from Berlin-Kreuzberg. Often collaborated with fellow Berlin artist Ziska Riemann.
Works:
- Wo Soll Das Alles Enden
- Freakadellen und Bulletten
- Invasion aus dem Alltag: Aliens visit Earth, meet a group of freaks and create world-wide anarchy (in the positive sense)
- Das Schwarze Imperium: Seyfried is head of a big comic imperium, but has to solve a problem: The ink reserves of Earth are running out.
- Flucht aus Berlin: Seyfried is suffering Writer's Block and decides to look for the greatist artist on Earth, Doctor Tolstoyevsky in Siberia.
- Future Subjunkies: Set in a Crapsack World / Bad Future.
- Space Bastards
- Let The Bad Times Roll
- Bullen, Bonzen und Berliner
- Starship Eden: All the politicians and rich people on Earth decide to leave the planet for a better one. Humans have to learn without them. (Not that bad, it turns out.)
- Kraft durch Freunde
He Also Did write some historical novels.
Examples in his works:
- All Just a Dream: "Das Schwarze Imperium" ended like this.
- Bait-and-Switch: Ivan Kagebeyevitch's boss about the Black League:"An anarchist group that wants to bring down the free world! And the west too!"
- Bourgeois Bohemian: a "typical freak" driving Mercedes Benz
- Chest of Medals: Ivan's boss, including among other things a smiley face and three Mercedes stars.
- Creator Cameo: Make that Creator Protagonist
- Femme Fatale: Miss Tery has elements of this.
- Flowery Insults: When Seyfried finds out the not that great secret plan of "number one" (coloring all the flags in the world black), they start Volleying Insults, which culminate in "Citizen!"
- Global Warming: In "Flucht aus Berlin", it has progressed so far that Siberia isn't really cold anymore. So the Russians use part of it to produce cocaine, which they can't sell however because the CIA doesn't want competition in their business. And since the Russians don't like it, they spreads the coke everywhere to make people think Siberia was still snowy when it isn't.
- The Mole: Miss Tery is really the KGB colonel Terynka
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While travelling on the tanker full of ink for his publishing empire, the author tries to open the tanks because he needs a little bit of ink for drawing. He breaks something, and becomes responsible for the whole load being spilled, polluting the German Sea and its coast.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Zwille
- Punny Name: Miss Tery. Ivan Kagebeyevitch (guess for whom he works). Also for cities and the like: "Rest Berlin" for West Berlin is practically a Running Gag.
- Shout-Out: Captain Haddock and other famous comic characters appeared in the background.
- Starfish Language: The spherical floating aliens speak one. Fortunately they have an Universal Translator. And later we see they're actually disguised Human Aliens. Who are anarchists.
- Traumatic Haircut: Zwille gets his long hair and beard shaved off when travelling to the US. (This was long before 9/11, BTW.)
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Unfortunate Implications: He often draws non-whites like this - blacks with big lips, East Asians as coolies with straw hats. - Universal Translator: The aliens have one.
- You Are Number 6: In the Black League, everyone has a code number. The author is number five, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers makers Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides are also among the top five.
