Concept sketches

In the second book, the setting often changes. So lucky Mana had a lot of concept stuff to draw. You can take a look at some of the character and creature concepts here:

Big changes and an unused cover

The comic was originally planned as an album-sized series with 46 pages per comic, each comic adapting half a book.
But after publishing the first volume in March 2006 and scheduling the second for March 2007, the format was changed. Now each volume will be a smaller hardcover and adapt a whole book on 92 pages.
The first HC, containing the already published album nr. 1 and the second album, will be out in October 2007.

And that's how the unpublished second album would have looked like:
Design/Layout by Michael Vogt! :)

Vol. 1 preview pages

Heya, here we are.
Welcome to the blog about "Wave Walkers - The Comic" aka "Das Wellenlaeufer-Comic" - the series of graphic novels adapting Kai Meyer’s THE WAVE WALKERS (DIE WELLENLAUEFER) trilogy!



The three guys working on this adaption are:

script: Yann Krehl YannKrehl.com
pencils: Christian"Mana"Nauck DeviantArtAccount or blog or nauckundschuetze.de
colors: Sven Strangmeyer pencilonpaper.de

The "Die Wellenläufer" logo was desgined by Michael Vogt, who's currently working on the comic adaption of another novel.


Here's a first look at the cover of the first HC: