Karen Hertfelder

Karen Hertfelder is a comic book author and illustrator currently studying at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2021, she self-published the comic "Punch Your Heart Out" in English, which was later re-released in 2023 as her German comic debut under the new name "Herzschlag" together with Schwarzer Turm. "Punch Your Heart Out" was nominated for the 2022 Ginco Award in the "Self-Published" category. Besides her various Shortcomic projects and contributions to the 8th, 9th and 10th edition of the student publication "Triebwerk" (published by Rotopol), she also illustrated several graphic stories for the WDR app "Stolpersteine NRW" in 2021. She is currently working on her thesis comic.