erikberndt's Newest Cartoons

I can get no sleep

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Im Laubmeer

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In a sea of leaves.

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Koo koo

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....
He cleans up the forest floor
He practices some steps he'd never seen before
So unaware that she's a swing door
Left in fainted feelings on the empty stage once more

Limestones, bay leaves, dinner snail
With all that efforts he can hardly fail
But will she stay?
Will she fly?
Will she sing?
Find a suitable tree top to make a new home
Or does he have to wait till next spring?
It's a dusky dawn day
And if you carefully listen
You would hear him say
Koo koo
Koo koo

Illustration for 'Koo koo' sung by Oh Land

Die Weltmaschine

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The world machine.
After being programmed with keywords like 'cars' and 'buses' promptly an abundance of the requested material is generated.
....Some items from the 'kitchen' programme also managed to sneak in.

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Wiese

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Meadow with two grazing cows and upcoming thunderstorm.

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The pawn shop

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A tribute to Lana del Rey and one of her most beautiful songs, the 'pawn shop blues'

"Her music makes me feel like I wanna go far away and see the world" someone commented on youtube.
Things we leave behind are stored in this shop.

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Strassenteerarbeiten

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Street repaving at the National Founders Monument.

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Im Innern des Füllhorns

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Inside a cornucopia.
With two researchers who managed to get inside, hoping to find out where all these good and useful things finally will rain down.

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The Lego city film festival

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At top right is Öresund bridge, leading into the adjoint theme room "Wonders of the Baltic coasts", which includes the towers of Tallinn (right) and a poster of the Estonia Tourism Board with birches and sunset.
At center is the large Lego chemical plant, issued to celebrate the "International Year of Chemistry" 2011.
And additional jet set is flown in (via helicopter at right) directly from the Aga Khan's curling season opening party at St. Moritz.

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Lego city project - Tokyo

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Finally finished!
Time to get something to eat.....in the makeshift kitchen at top right.

With high diving championship at center left and an artificial ice rink at right.
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Das große Aufräumen

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The great clean up.
Air support is directed in and now it is definitely time to leave, you rarely used soup tureens and never read books.
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Saturn

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Another one from my 'kitchenware in space' series. With Uranus and Neptune in the background.
And with quite a surprising abundance around that planet.
The away team has also a very secret special mission: looking for some new items of Boleslawiec ceramics to complete the captain's collection.
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Orbiting Uranus

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...on a saturday evening.
With electrical discharges coming from the planet's upper atmosphere
....and with Miranda in the background.
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Die Vampyrette

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The model railroader

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I am pessimistic about his finds in the fridge. Recent costly acquisitions might force him to draw on his reserves of packet soups for the next couple of weeks. (Pencil, 20x30cm)

The cosmonauts

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plumbers delight

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Plumber's delight is the name of the bar at the ground floor of the plumbers' guild building. Not surprisingly its cosy atmosphere attracts also many from the nearby chemical plant....and so we find the guests always busily engaged in an interdiscplinary dialogue. (Pencil, 20x30cm)

Photoshoot...

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Photoshoot at the abandoned steel plant. Pencil, 20x30cm.

The goddess of the railroaders

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with two worshippers presenting their offerings. ...Weeell, we couldn't find a NOHAB in the colours of the Hungarian State Railways... is of course not a good beginnig, when facing this capricious woman. At worst she falls asleep, tired by her toys, and thus causing endless delays in earthly rail traffic, with nothing but annoyed customers and testy personnel.Oh noo! (Pencil, 20x30cm)

Me - in the autumnal garden

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I used a newly bought sword- shaped saw 'made in Japan', which brought good results. Maybe this people of serious gardeners also developed some adequate footwear... (Pencil, 20x30cm)

Die legendäre MIR

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....und das legendäre Chaos an Bord. Hier sehen wir den Langzeitkosmonauten Y.,wie er bei den Vorbereitungen zu einem hohen Festtag (der Butterwoche, um genau zu sein, es ist ein russisches Raumschiff) versehentlich den Magnesiumfluoridkreislauf ausschaltet. Allerdings kam das fatale Schaltmodul aus dem amerikanischen Sektor hereingeschwebt, und niemand hatte mal wieder die leiseste Ahnung, daß ein solcher Kreislauf überhaupt existiert! Also hat Houston ein neuerliches Seminar 'Interkulturelle Kommunikation' (10 Doppelstunden zu je 90 Min.)angeordnet! Oh nein!
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Die Friseuse

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Inspiriert von einem Fernsehbericht über Ernest Shackletons Südpolarexpedition sehen wir hier einen Expeditionsteilnehmer nach Jahren im ewigen Eis die Wohltaten der Zivilisation geniessen. (Bleistiftzeichnung, 16x22cm)

Rural Bulgaria

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After the collapse of heavy industry many return to a living similar to that of their ancestors 100 years ago
(....and of course all the drawings one does are also self portraits....)

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The mermaid

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Industriepark Hoechst im 45.Jhdt

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Hören wir dazu unsere beiden Experimentalarchäologen: -Erstaunlich, was von solch frühen und oft unterschätzten Kulturen schon alles auf die Beine gestellt worden ist! -Ja, und vor allem: mit deeen Möglichkeiten damals. Bleistiftzeichnung, 20x30cm