Ginger Origins is a 48-page, oversized graphic novel, following the internal struggles of Ginger Cat Nr 9, who is dealing with anxiety and exclusion in a society dominated by Tuxedo Cats.
Besides the YobKiss soundtrack which is streaming from all platforms, this second edition includes extra content such as back stories, a prologue and additional content created by artists Michiel Walrave, Johan Kleinjan, Gees Voorhees and Yvonne Gaemers.
Soundtrack: yobkiss.com
Flying Mau Cat #1
Buy for $ 21,- at yobkiss.com
It is a captivating and thought-provoking tale of a young woman's journey towards self-discovery and enlightenment. The disappearance of her father, the renowned physicist Kim Soon-Guen, sets Josie off on a quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe. The enigmatic ginger cat that her father left behind becomes the key to unlocking the secrets of a secret order of flying cats that are tasked with fixing the glitches in human reality. As Josie delves deeper into this mystical world, she begins to question the very nature of reality itself, leading her to a profound spiritual awakening. Flying Mau Cat is vivid and evocative, transporting readers on a magical journey filled with wonder and intrigue. Flying Mau Cat is a must-read for anyone seeking a fresh perspective on the mysteries of existence.
Listen at yobkiss.com
Or listen on any of your favorite streaming services like Spotify or Youtube.
Paul Börchers has created an extraordinary and immersive musical score to accompany his captivating comic, Flying Mau Cat. As part of the creative process, Börchers recorded a series of tracks to accompany the comic, with some tracks intentionally created and others born out of happy accidents.
His music transports listeners on a journey of discovery, as they explore the magical world of the comic. "Energy Grid" is a standout track on this score, with its mesmerizing beats and Valerie Cooper's enthralling vocals from the legendary band Sweet Trip. Cooper's haunting voice blends perfectly with Börchers' unique soundscapes, creating a rich and captivating experience that perfectly complements the visual narrative. "Unstable Core" feels deliberate and focused, showcasing Börchers' impeccable musical instincts. Overall, the Flying Mau Cat score is a must-listen for fans of both comics and music and for anyone who wants to explore the boundaries of creativity and imagination, as it elevates the reading experience to an entirely new level.
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released March 1, 2023
All music by Paul Börchers
Vocals by Valerie Cooper
This is Issue #0 of a 28 page comic called Flying Mau Cat.
Limited edition of 200 copies, signed and numbered by Paul Börchers. (sold out)
Hand-made risograph print by Colpa Press in San Francisco.
The first half of issue nr. 1 has been published in Zone 5300 in the Netherlands.
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Artwork for Metal Mutant Tape release
Social campaign for Village Roadshow showing the metamorphosis of pennywise.
Starting from making a storyboard most of the frames are all drawn by hand
For drawing the artwork and character animation I used Clip Studio Paint on a Wacom Cintiq and After effects for the compositing.
The music was created in Logic
The Ultimate Fan Guide To RuPaul’s Drag Race. A 320 pages thick book that covers 10 seasons of Queens. It’s available from Amazon.
written by John Davis and published by Smith Street Books
2020 Mobil1 12 Hours of Sebring Porsche Poster
"Team Made" Nov. 14
Animated logo for Photographer Eric Wolfinger
You can check out the animation in full effect on his website: EricWolfinger.com
Social campaign for Village Roadshow highlighting the Justice League blockbuster, showing their different appearances over the years.
For drawing the artwork and character animation I used Clip Studio Paint on a Wacom Cintiq and After effects for the compositing.
The music was created on a Elektron Rytm MKII, Elektron Octatrack, Dreadbox Modular Synthesizer, Korg minilogue, and a Korg Polysix.
The Life of an Icon – from Mary Austin to Zanzibar.
Originally published: November 2019
Author: Steve Wide
Illustrations and Lettering : Paul Börchers
Published by Smith Street
Tarot cards with 10 seasons of Queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race. (sold out)
published by Smith Street Books
This is the second Foudre Friends monster collab I did for Almanac and created 7 new characters each for every brewery. The characters were inspired by 70’s and 80’s disco, hip hop and funk legends.
About the beer: Tart Farmhouse Ale Aged In Oak Foudres With Fig Juice & Dry-Hopped With Motueka. Brewed in collaboration with eight of Almanac’s fave brewery friends!
When Almanac asked me to join for their monster collab I was super excited. I created 8 characters for all the breweries collaborating on this beautiful beer.
Artwork for the Ayden Vice & Andreas Rund - Come Back To Me (The Egyptian Lover Remix) twelve inch on the Musique Exotique label From Amsterdam.
I did a series of illustration for aquarium sculptures designed by Bas van Beek for Boijmans van Beuningen.
The were exclusively for sale at Dieren Speciaalzaak Pretoria in South Rotterdam and were exhibited at the Wolfsonian Shameless show at Miami Art Basel.
Reissue design and artwork for the Sweet Trip classic “You Will Never Know Why.
The band wanted to get rid of the old razor blade artwork which they felt was not representative of their positive music.
Sweet Trip wrote a story about a vampire stealing away the razor blade and I translated this into a comic book form.
I illustrated the packaging of this series of Christmas decorations designed by Bas van Beek for Boijmans van Beuningen. They were exclusively for sale at Mons Kadocentrum in south Rotterdam!
All illustration work for tiki band Ape!
APE is a six-piece band from San Francisco and the only band in the world that features a live Tiki Carver. APE is anything but conventional.
Seven inch single for Ape from San Francisco from their record “Supersonic”.
Artwork, Graphic Design and Art Direction for the Antilounge 22 “Drones and Beats” Compilation.
Antilounge has, for years and years, promoted experimental beats & drones from the The Hague underground.
Project by graphic designer Erik Marinovich.
It’s a holiday party for freelancers (and non-freelancers).
While you’re at it, check out his website
Bas van Beek commissioned me to work with him on a exhibition at the Kunsthall in Oslo
It features a portrait of humanitarian Fritjof Nansen who invented the Nansen Passport, a document that allowed refugees to find new homes during World War I.
Fritjof Nansen won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. Born in Norway in 1861, Nansen’s early life was dedicated to exploration. He led an expedition across Greenland on cross-country skis and tried to reach the North Pole on another trip. He fell short on the latter, but traveled farther north than anyone had at the time.
Reissue design and artwork for the Sweet Trip classic Velocity : Design : Comfort on Darla Records.
I re-created the original art from scratch, adding more detail, and exclusivity to this release.
The inner artwork was a new piece, created by me.
Animation for Arup
From storyboarding to music, from compositing to final renders, I worked on every aspect of this animation.
Arup is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides engineering, architecture, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment.
Projects to which it has contributed include the Sydney Opera House, Allianz Arena in Germany, The 'Bird's Nest or Beijing National Stadium, The Barbican Centre, London Eye, Marina Bay Sands – Singapore, CCTV Headquarters in Beijing and the list goes on.
Limited Edition of 50 Tux cats were printed (sold out)
This cat was also used for the RVLT Festival artwork.
Graphic Design for the first TRANS record on Roughtrade.
Design for the second and last record of TRANS on Rough Trade records
Holland is an album by singer songwriter Mark Lotterman. This book is a result of many artists contributing to his album. My artwork was for the song “Norway”.
Re-issue Graphic Design work for the legendary 90’s classic “The Sound of McAlmont and Butler on Demon Records.
For this record I produced I asked artist Rebecca U to create the cover.
I gave Art Direction to get us started and Rebecca introduced fashion designer Phillip Patterson to collaborate with his photography on the collage she produced.
Artwork by Rebecca U
Photography Phillip Patterson
Portrait by Guy Campbell
Mastered by Alden Tyrell
Executive producers Dr. Troy and Chris Bendix
Album art for the 12” by Slyder.
KAMP HORST is an art collective from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The main focus of its six members lies on making group paintings on both canvases and walls, but illustration and design also make up a big part of the KAMP HORST body of work.
Established after the demise of its predecessor, Antistrot.
KAMP HORST is:
Paul Borchers, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Johan Kleinjan, Silas Schletterer, Gees Voorhees and Michiel Walrave
Clients include: JWT Amsterdam, The Escape Pod Chicago, Martin Garrix, Fluor Netherlands, Generator Hostels, Frame Copenhagen, Patronaat Haarlem and Raaf Rotterdam.
EXHIBITION: PLANTS WITH BITE COLLABORATION WITH THE CALYX, THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, SYDNEY
Last year the team behind The Calyx approached The Illustration Room with the idea of creating a collaborative exhibition of original illustrations inspired by vintage comics and films on the theme of carnivorous plants.
Each illustrator was given artistic license to tell any wild and wonderful story they could dream up within the fantastical world of Plants with Bite, The Calyx, The Royal Botanical Garden Sydney and the beautiful city it lies within.
Posters of the Plants with Bite artwork and souvenir postcard sets housed in retro tins can be purchased in The Calyx store until stocks last.
Artwork for Namshub and the Hi Freqs LP
This was the first cat with wings I drew.
After I drew this in Melbourne I sent it to a company who distributes free postcards to promote artists. They printed like 6000 of them and became collectibles.
After selling the original drawing I made some prints of it:
Edition of 50 were printen by On Stone in Melbourne (Sold Out)
Dark grey First Edition of 50 (Sold Out).
Dark grey Second Edition of 50 (Sold Out). This edition looks slightly more blue grey than the first edition.
Dark Blue Edition of 50 (Sold Out).
This is a exhibition in the National Museum of of the Republic, part of the Cultural Complex, Brasília - Federal District
The exhibition is showing past and present collaborations and solo art works by David Elshout, Paul Borchers YobKiss, Eru & Emu Arizono HAMADARAKA, Antistrot, Miguel Molino and apprentices Thay Yawalapiti and Luciano Rincon.
This project was made possible by
Museo Nacional Brasília
Mondriaan Foundation
Creative Industries Fund NL
Producão: David Elshout, Paulo Costa
Agradecimentos: Cassianá Caparelli, Mainá Campos Pilomia
Conceito Exposicão: David Elshout
Iluminacão: Zizi Antunes
Traducão: Luciana Cavalcante
Divulgacão: Paulo Costa
Assistenca Tecnicá: Jimena Alexander Supertramp
Mural and exhibition at #rd Ward in Brooklyn, New York.
Artists: Eru & Emu Arizono, Johan Kleinjan, Paul Börchers, David Elshout.
Formed in 1996, Antistrot was a visual band, a group of artists to work together as individuals on murals and paintings. The creative process focuses on creating as a group, using the same medium but mixing individual styles.
The group met as Illustration students at the Willem De Kooning Academie in Rotterdam and came to reject the view that illustrators are not fine artists.
Like the Dadaists Antistrot uses disparate sources like popular magazines, vintage comics, typography and off course art history. They juxtapose the disconnected images in order to highlight a chaotic irrationality of contemporary society.
They were certainly not the first artists to band together to make a point but their joined attack had a new twist as they refer to as "complete saturation". Because the images are intertwined, their symbolic value merge into a narrative that changes, depending on where your eyes lead you. No image or idea is left to itself. Instead the whole is saturated by association.
Each work is spontaneous, never premeditated, like a impromptu performance, each painting tests the new boundaries and potential.The members continued producing paintings and murals without David Elshout from 2010 as Kamp Horst Rotterdam.
Source: Art critic Julia Morton
Artist members were: Paul Borchers, Johan Kleinjan, Bruno Ferro Xavie Da Silva, Silas Schletterer, David Elshout and Michiel Walrave.
Representations: MK Galerie Rotterdam, Sara Techia Roma New York, Shooting Gallery San Francisco
History:
2009] Solid Cold, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, USA [ Hidden Track, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam + The scenery of a beautiful Cancer, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
[2008] Large Mural, Performance, paintings at Booth, Aqua Wynwood, during Art Basel + Performances, decoration, visuals for State X 09 festival, The Hague + Exhibition at Winzavod, cultural arts center, Moscow + Exhibition at Sergey Kuryukhin cultural foundation, St. Petersburg + Solo Exhibition at Sara Tecchia Gallery, New York + Antistrot at Scope New York, New York + Antistrot Mural at Kongsi Enschede, with videoshoot with Japanse filmcrew
[2007] Big Robot Performance, NYE Con Club, Rotterdam + Installation with mural in collab with Ludovica Gioscia, at Scope Miami + Nomination for the Volkskrant Fine Arts Prize Lowlands & Todays Art festival, Biddinghuizen & The Hague + Mural & Performances at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York City + Participation at “Can’t we all just get along”, collab. with Elena Monzo, Sara Tecchia, New York + City Mural at Careof, Milan + ‘Skatebored’ boardrelated exhibition, Rotterdam, Eindhoven + Your line…, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York + City PAIN_TINGS exhibition at MK Gallery, Rotterdam + Exhibition “Reading the Drawing” at Sign Gallery, Groningen
[2006] Mural and performance at Maria Am Ostbahnufer, Berlin + Mural at The Fund of Visual Arts and Architecture, Amsterdam + Exhibition at “Dutch Masters”, GEM museum, The Hague + Mural and Performance at Bochumer Kulturrat, Bochum & Performance at the Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund + Antistrot stage at Todays Art festival, performances and paintings, collaboration with Eru & Emu Arizono and Siogo Yoshikawa, The Hague + Participation at “Kunstvlaai”, Amsterdam
[2005] Mural in Porto and Lisbon (Zé Dos Bois) + El Nasser photo shoot with Elsa Jo for Nike + Exhibition “Amateur Kaviar” at the Kabinetten van de Vleeshallen, Middelburg + Exhibition with Zedz at 90 square meters, Amsterdam + Exhibition “Drawings and pain” at MK Galerie Rotterdam + Mural and installation at Boijmans van Beuningen for Project Rotterdam Exhibition + Antistrot painting/mural exhibited at Muhka, Antwerpen + Mural at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin for Offside exhibition
[2004] Presentation Cyberstort and performance by Crackremover at the Scheld’Apen, Antwerp and at the Player, Rotterdam + Etcetera musical Venue accompanied with Artwork by Antistrot, Nighttown Theater, Rotterdam + “Fisi the Laughing Hyena”exhibition at Neon Gallery, Brösarp + Deco for State-x festival in The Hague with Zedz and a performance (El Nasser) with Donna Summer (Jason Forest) + Drawing for presentation of the “Nieuwe Omroep” + Presentation of Antistrot mural and performance at ‘RE 04’ in Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam + Antistrot TV at local tv station + Drawing for Japanese adult advertisement (E-Station)
[2003] Screening Antistrot films by ‘Maus Habitos’ in Porto, Portugal + Exhibition: Our Collected Paintings and solo work in Punct, Tilburg + Exhibition: Antistrot Blacklist at the Photo Institution of Warsaw, Poland + Antistrot mural at the Museum of Contemperary Art, Warsaw, Poland + Three spreads for ‘Container #0’ magazine + Spread in Hepalinillmaster, Osaka, Japan
[2002] Antistrot content on Occupying space site + Antistrot content on Mama o oo. Nl site + Antistrot exhibition of paintings at OFF Corso, Rotterdam + Part of State X festival in den Haag (film content) + Part of Langweiligkeitsfestival [2001] Antistrot display at the Kunsthal graduation exhibition + Part of GRRR ZBUCH! Exhibition in Center for Contemporary Arts in Prague + Antistrot display in Tower Records in Japan + Part of art-route’Occupying Space’ in Rotterdam city-hall + Part of Hardpop exhibition at showroom Mama in Rotterdam + Antistrot content on Hardpop.net site + Antistrot content on 3VO site + Part of Radio Moderne 2 + Antistrot available in Tokio and New York + Video screening at R EJECT festival in Rotterdam [education] Willem de Kooning - Academy of Art
Publications/interviews: Ad in Art Forum for the Sara Tecchia Exhibition (2008), Saatchi Online (2008), Interviews, in Metro, NRC Handelsblad, Saatchi Online, Volkskrant and many others (2007), Confetti, Rotterdam (November 2006), Ruhr Zeitung (September 2006), Volkskrant (September 2006), CJP Magazine, Lowlands (August 2006), Volkskrant (February 2006), Volksrant (July 2005), Laifstyle, Poland (May 2005), Haagsche Courant Review (April 2005)
Buy from the NAI store in Rotterdam
Making Urban Nature' is an inspirational book of examples about nature-inclusive designing in European cities. It calls for the integration of the living conditions found in nature in the designs of buildings and urban outdoor spaces and includes practical examples and design suggestions.
I’ve made quite some how-to illustrations over the years. Here are some of my favorites.
Small selection of editorials for Amsterdam Newspaper Het Parool.
Festival poster for an underground festival in The Hague, Netherlands .
Gouache and ink on canvas.
Limited edition of 40 giclee prints (sold out)
