Werner Wünschmann

Born in 1957 in Glückstadt an der Elbe, he now lives in Hamburg. When their two children were young, his wife was the breadwinner and he took care of the household. On the side, he drew and painted. It started with backdrops for puppet theaters, murals for restaurants, sketches for magazines, and small comics for club newsletters. Werner was fascinated by Hajime Sorayama’s pin-ups, and although he had no formal artistic training (he is a master carpenter), he tried to put something similar on paper. For many years, he had quite a bit of success with pin-ups. Exhibitions, images in magazines like (O), ArtCore, and Bizzare; the Hamburger Morgenpost published a major article about him, and RTL featured his artwork. Then he met Paul Grisar on Facebook, and they launched a joint book project about the Golden Age of pin-ups. With Paul Grisar’s untimely death, this book project unfortunately came to an end. With pages from this project, Werner attended the major comic convention in Eindhoven, Netherlands, where he met the comic author Sparq. Werner’s idea for a Western comic about a family on the Oregon Trail inspired Sparq so much that they have now been working on the story “1850” for 10 years; its fourth volume has just been published by TheNextArt Verlag.