We promised 2 months back that we’d show you more of the Princess Coralie stuff that we worked on, but we’ve been very very busy lately. So long overdue, but here’s a peek into the first of the 4 storybooks:
Published by Theo Klein GmbH, 2016.
Story by Christine Sommer-Guist. Drawings by Marc Rueda, colors (watercolor) by Janina Görrissen.
ISBN 978-3-945519-51-6
Sooo… Here’s something that has been in the making since 2014, but we couldn’t show you anything yet!
Marc and I have been working together with the German toy manufacturer Klein Toys to create / expand a new line of toys that finally came out around Christmas last year.
The main part of the work is done by Marc here, I mostly take care of the watercolors. So he designed the characters and illustrated 4 little storybooks. Based on these characters and some of the elements in the books, Klein Toys made quite a few toys – plushies, figures, a toy castle and more.
Around November, we received a BIG package with aaaall of the toys. It was like early Christmas and so exciting to see all the finished products!
For now we’ll just leave you with a few pictures, but we’re going to show you some of the products more up close in the upcoming weeks. 
For some months now, Marc has been working on little single-panel comics for a butcher’s shop called Baur. He puts these in his promotional flyers and apparently, some people are avid collectors by now!
The ideas and texts are provided by the client (© Frank Baur) and Marc has a lot of fun doing these!
The texts are in Swabian, one of Germany’s many dialects, so I roughly translated the dialogues the best that I could.
And yes, some of them are pretty harsh and not apt for vegetarians! Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Princess Mina just keeps coming! Here’s another game in the series, this time it’s a card game for 2-4 players aged 5 – 99.
There were 2 new princesses to design this time, so now we’re up to 6. I love playing with different types and ethnicities and I try to make each princess very unique. Did you know there don’t seem to be any (none!) mainstream princesses with glasses? So I felt that I really needed to include one here.
Here’s an invitation Marc made for two of our neighbors who got married last year.
They have 7 Australian Shepherds, so of course they wanted to include them on their invitation.
