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\nIf you’re very lucky at a con you can discover a major new talent you never would’ve come across otherwise, somebody like Amanda Majoor. A graduate from the Zwolle artschool, she did her thesis on the intersections between comics and music (see below). Unfortunately it hasn’t been published yet, but from what I could see of it leafing through it, it should be interesting. Amanda’s main comics project, which she ultimately would like to publish as a graphic novel, follows on from this interest in music and comics and would be about the socalled “Swingjugend” in forties Hamburg.\n<\/p>\n
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\n(Short historical recap as I understand it. Swingjugend were young German jazz\/swing fans, which was of course verboten in the Third Reich; Hamburg was always one of the most leftwing cities in Germany and not very known to be Nazi loving. Enough scope for a graphic novel, I think.)\n<\/p>\n
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\nCurrently Amanda’s busy doing research and tryouts for this project, but she also does other work on the side, like a comic and interview<\/a> for the FML website. She blogs at Swing und Bratwurst<\/a> and has an art portfolio at Flickr.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
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