{"id":32,"date":"2021-10-15T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beingmonsters.de\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2024-11-09T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:25:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beingmonsters.de\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Being Monsters is a Beauty and the Beast story that\u2019s not at all what you expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idealistic misfit Claire chases her escaped dog through a rose hedge and discovers the hideout of a real-life Monster. In order to get her dog back, she has to confront the creature – every single day. She soon finds herself trying to unravel the mysteries surrounding the place. And attempts to get her messy life back together at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A modern fairy tale, drama and detective story about non-conformity, making difficult decisions and peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being Monsters is a slow-paced long-format comic and will take several years to finish. So get yourselves comfy and bring a cup of tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can read Being Monsters
– right here on the website (updates on Tuesdays & Fridays)
– on Webtoon in English<\/a> (updates on Fridays)
– on Webtoon in German<\/a> (updates on Fridays).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The comic won a GINCO Award in 2023 for Best Long-form Comic and received two scholarships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m Julia Beutling, an illustrator and comic artist from Berlin, Germany, and I work for publishers, companies and non-profit organizations. I always wanted to draw comics professionally, but somehow I ended up mostly doing illustration. Being Monsters enables me to slowly start living this dream, it has become my passion project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.juliabeutling.de<\/a>
julia.beutling [at] mailbox [dot] org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Art & story: Julia Beutling
Art assistant for chapters 1 – 3: Donghoon Kang<\/a>
Art assistant for chapters 2 – 4: Marthe Rosenow<\/a>
Art assistant for chapters 3 – 5 \/ 3D models: Keisha Ramos<\/a>
Art assistant for chapters 4 – 7: Isabell Heutz-Della Vite<\/a>
Art assistant for chapters 5 – 8: Greta Gauronskaite<\/a>
Editorial assistant: Gerda Beuchel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being Monsters gets ongoing support since preproduction by my very lovely Patrons \u2665\ufe0e<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late preproduction \/ early Book 1 was funded with artist grants by<\/p>\n\n\n

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NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendienprogramm 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The production phase of Book 1 is funded by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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die Senatsverwaltung f\u00fcr Kultur und Europa <\/em>(Berliner Comicstipendium 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hoon – for diligent help at every time of day, valiant endurance of my perfectionism, and as Webtoon Explainer
Marthe – as engaged helping hand with much too complicated tasks, Granny Expert and open ear
Keisha – for becoming a building master and working patiently through some super complicated processes
Isabell – for being not only a helper, but a fan, and more aware of what I’m doing wrong than myself
Greta – for making complicated layouts work and fixing all those little things I did wrong in round 1
Max – as first constructive critic, General Idea Bouncer, Profanity Consultant und Awesome Tech Wiz
Bettina – as second Idea Bouncer and gardening advisor
Gerda – for very thorough revision help, a ton of good ideas and never-ceasing interest
Karo – as The Monster’s First Fan and selfless noodle package courier
Dorothea – als historical and interior architecture consultant
Loki – for the help with advertising and content warnings
Saskia – for help with fonts and web technology
Gerda, Marthe, Maxi, Miri and Karo – as immensely patient Rant Listeners<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All test readers as most patient, diligent cheerleaders and indispensable helpers:
Bettina, Charlotte, Claudia, Giske, Gerda, Gunther, Karo, Keisha, Loki, Marthe, Max, Mo and Vroni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of my Patreon supporters – for their saintly patience, their trust and the tailwind<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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