All about MYTH

As soon as I finished school, I really wanted to use the remaining six months of free time to make my own manga. That's when I remembered the story that Tobias had written when I was at school - and Tobias liked the idea of revisiting "MYTH". So Tobias took care of most of the plot, story, dialog etc.. Meanwhile, I redesigned the characters that I originally designed when I was still at school. My main task, however, was to draw the first part of Tobias' written story as a manga and to realize it on 121 pages (5 chapters) and to finish it completely for printing. Originally it was supposed to stay that way, but Tobias wrote his story much more extensively than just for one volume. As I really enjoyed working on the manga, I started working on volume 2 straight away. worked on volume 2 immediately afterwards...

I started work on volume 2 in February 2016 and by October 2016 I had drawn the 5 chapters it contains. I drew the first volume partly with liners. Now I wanted to switch completely to pen and ink. Because of this, but also because of the 3 color pages (which were only included in the first edition), the work was a bit more difficult.

This volume is one of my favorites. Tobias' story took a turn into a darker area at this time. I really enjoyed the change from regular "shonen" manga to a light "horror" direction, it was a lot of fun to draw a more serious atmosphere. Since the story has slowly become a bit more extensive, I started printing a summary of the characters and the story so far at the beginning of the book from volume 3 onwards. the story so far. Parallel to the work on the manga, I also produced fully animated trailers for the manga series, which I uploaded to YouTube for publication.

Because I wanted to improve for each volume, I thought of something very special for volume 4: Tobias was to start writing little side stories that I would include in the books in the form of extra chapters. So from now on, each volume will have 5 ½ chapters and at least 4 color pages in the first edition. In combination with the animated trailers, which also became more elaborate from year to year, I realized that I probably wouldn't be able to carry this load for much longer. probably wouldn't be able to carry this load for much longer and planned to finish the series the following year with volume 5.

Originally, volume 5 was supposed to be the end of the series. However, the first arc (story section) of Tobias' story was not yet completely finished at this point in the story. completely finished. For this reason, I decided to give the series a more honorable ending instead of drawing a line in the middle of the story. I already had plans and ideas for projects and books that I wanted to realize after the manga series - but I had to postpone them for a year.

Due to time constraints, but also partly for health reasons, I ended the MYTH manga series in December 2020. With over 10,000+ copies sold, the manga series will go down in history as the most successful German-language indie manga. The first section (The "Flashback Arc") of Tobias' story ended here. For the conclusion, I animated the most elaborate trailer, drew a complete extra chapter for volume 6 and produced a free (and strictly limited) collector's slipcase for the series. I'm very glad I continued MYTH through to volume 6 and finished it after the big, final battle. However, I was also happy to finally have time for other books and projects.