Matthias Schultheiss

His first graphic novel called Trucker appeared in 1981 as a serial in the German magazine Comic-Reader, and he published two comic adaptations of short stories by Charles Bukowski.

His breakthrough came when Franco-Belgian comics magazine L'Écho des savanes published his graphic novels Bell's Theorem and The Sharks of Lagos as serials from 1985 onwards.

Both were reprinted in three volumes each by Éditions Albin Michel in France, Carlsen Verlag in Germany, and Bell's Theorem has been published in English by Catalan Communications.

But this turned out a flop, and for the rest of the 1990s, Schultheiss withdrew from making comics, only teaching graphics illustration classes in Hamburg, his city of residence, and occasionally wrote scripts for telefilms.

They present a much brighter, more colorful, and more optimistic style compared to his bleak and darkly disturbing work of the 1980s and early 1990s.