ULRICH SHRÖDER (comic book artist and writer; Germany)
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Ulrich Schröder is a German comic artist and screenwriter. After graduating from Viktoria School in Aachen, he began his career as a graphic artist in 1983. From 1984 to 1987, he worked in Frankfurt for the German branch of the WALT DISNEY COMPANY as a comic artist. After that, he worked as a freelance advertising graphic artist, including for Opel and Nesquik, and created the advertising comic "Quicky and his Friends."
In 1989, he moved to Paris, where he started working as an art director for DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE. He worked there for 17 years as a graphic artist, designing graphics for Disney’s merchandising and advertising materials.
Ulrich Schröder created many covers for Disney comics, designed templates for Disney characters, and illustrated several Disney children's books, including "Pedro, the Little Airplane" and "Goliath in the Andes." In addition to illustrations for Disney comic books in various countries, he also drew for the French magazine Le Journal de Mickey. Together with Daan Jippes, he created short Donald Duck comics for newspapers and Goofy stories for the Danish publisher EGMONT.
In November 2006, Ulrich Schröder left Disney Europe and founded Studio Duckworks, where he collaborates with many artists, designers, and writers from Disney’s European headquarters. As an art director, he also trains and further educates Disney illustrators.
In addition, in 2010, he created a fashion comic story for the French magazine Elle and caricatured many fashion designers, including Karl Lagerfeld (as the Big Bad Wolf), Donatella Versace (as Daisy Duck), Marc Jacobs (as Gladstone Gander), Jean-Paul Gaultier (as Donald Duck), John Galliano (as Captain Hook), Sonia Rykiel (as Magica De Spell), Dolce & Gabbana (as Mickey and Goofy), and Alber Elbaz (as Franz Gander). In 2011, he designed a collection of Disney-themed T-shirts for the clothing company C&A.
He oversaw the French Barks Library for the publisher Glénat.
Ulrich Schröder continues to draw Disney characters today, not digitally but in the traditional way, on paper.
