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Stefan Dinter on Anna-Marie Jung Appearance 12-05-08 (PR)
posted November 29, 2008
 

On Dec. 5, 8PM Anna-Maria Jung will present her brand-new comic book, XOTH - Die unaussprechliche Stadt (The unspeakable City) as part of the series KINOGESCHICHTE(N) at the Filmzentrum of the Rechbauerkino in Graz, Austria. there'll be an exhibition of the original artwork for the book, a panel discussion on all things lovecraft with anna-maria, jorg vogeltanz and thomas ballhausen and a signing. later, stuart gordon's movie, DAGON will be shown.

you are, of course, cordially invited.

KINOGESCHICHTE(N) is a series on film and media by the Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino and the Media Collective MacGuffin.

On ANNA-MARIA JUNG:

Anna-Maria Jung was born in Graz, Austria, where she started to draw comics during her teens. She started to study Multi-Media Arts, then went on to work at Bill Plympton‘s animation studio in NYC (for the short film »Shut Eye«). Returning to Austria, she began to to write her master‘s thesis in Multi-Media Arts at the Fachhochschule Salzburg on the theme of »The Creation of a fantastic world, based on H.P. Lovecraft‘s Cthulhu Myth«. The Thesis deals with, amongst others, »background information on the author, the cthulhu myth and the meaning behind the stories, as well as examples of lovecraft-inspired media and a discussion of how these different kinds of work deal with Lovecraft's stories«. During the work on the thesis, Anna-Maria started to work on conceptional artwork for a fictional city named XOTH and its inhabitants, inspired by Lovecraft‘s creations. From this grew the idea for a comic book - XOTH, The unspeakable city.

On XOTH:

On one of his many uneventful, boring evenings, Jacop O‘Damsel, freelance nerd, drunkenly decides to fall asleep in a back alley. Bad timing, since an Intergalactic Dimensional Shambler apears right there and then. And before Jacop gets the faintest chance to even be hung-over, the thing whisks him away.

Jacop awakens in XOTH, a strange world full of weird creatures - or are they unutterably blasphemous? Anyway, there are also the »Humanists«, a gang of stinky fisheads whor worship Humans and need Jacop for a certain - if unspecified - mission. And if that wasn‘t madness enough, Mayor Cthulhu orders his best killers, Nub and Shang to rub Jacop out of existence. Thanks be to the Old Ones, because Jacop finds Yen Niggurath, a nice goat-girl, who decides to help the hapless human. Together with her, Jacop will get to the bottom of the »Ordus Humanus« affair, since - Cthulhu's fat ass! - he's in no mood to run for his life forever.

Set against the background of H.P. Lovecraft‘s Cthulhu Myth, Anna-Maria Jung tells a tall tale full of monsters, nerds, monstrous nerds and nerdy monsters. And the man from Angell Street is in there, too.

XOTH! Die unaussprechliche Stadt, an 80 page hardcover with a foreword by ill-tempered critic Noah Berlatsky is published by Zwerchfell Verlag.