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Jakob F. Dittmar (ed.), Kevin Carpenter and Jakob Dittmar (text):
Casey Court
or Billy Baggs and The Casey Court Nibs.
Excerpts from the Kevin Carpenter Collection
ISBN 978-91-981603-7-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-91-990299-1-7 (pdf)

Casey Court was created in 1902 by Julius Stafford Baker. After he stopped drawing it in the 1920s, it was continued by different artists until 1953, amongst others Walter Bell, M.C. Veitch, H. O’Neill, Louis Briault, and Allan Morley, and Charlie Pease (which was Albert T. Pease). While examples in this volume span the years 1904 - 1932, most were originally published 1907.

Format: A4 horizontal, 52 pages all in all, in colour.
Price for printed book: 20 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-7-6 (print)
Digital edition is free to download here (Link).
ISBN: 978-91-990299-1-7 (pdf)
Published in 2025.

Jakob F. Dittmar (ed.), Kevin Carpenter and Jakob Dittmar (text):
Bits and Pieces: Miscellaneous Comics Strips from Illustrated Chips and Puck 1906 - 1908.
Excerpts from the Kevin Carpenter Collection

Format: A4, 100 pages all in all, in colour.
Price for printed book: 30 Euro.
ISBN: 978-91-981603-9-0 (print)
Digital edition is free to download here (Link).
ISBN: 978-91-990299-2-4 (pdf)
Published in 2025.

This volume includes example-strips that allow to understand how the Edwardian mindset was expressed in early comics and caricatures. While more research into alliterative titles of early comics is needed, other aspects are more than obvious: outright racist examples have been omitted as they do not merit re-publication here. Tone and moods of the times, and how different social classes were addressed in these papers, is getting quite clear from the following:
Chutney the Charmer
Maggie the Magpie
Sammie Snail
Adventures of Sammy Sardine and the Tiddler Twins
Silas the Submariner
The Little Stowaway
The Newlyweds
Dr. Patent’s Academy
The Misadventures of Tatcho the Seer
Sammie the Soothsayer
Merry Andrew
Billy Smiff’s Pirates
Bill, Ben, our Bold, Bad Balloonists
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Duke of Diabolo
Gussie, the Giddy Ghost.

Jakob F. Dittmar (ed.), Kevin Carpenter and Jakob Dittmar (text):
Weary Willie and Tired Tim. Perfecting the Mold for Knockabout Tramps.
Excerpts from the Kevin Carpenter Collection

Tom Browne created two amiable characters he called Weary Willie (or Willy) and Tired Tim for Harmsworth’s comic Illustrated Chips in 1896. These tramps, bold, brazen and wily, constantly in scrapes in a win-one lose-one rhythm, exude confidence and cheerfulness. In a late-nineties strip, Willy and Tim breeze into view, strolling round the city, their city, observing, commenting, and intervening at whim. They were a huge success and continued to appear on the cover page of Chips every week until 1953, drawn by various hands, for the last forty-four years by Percy Cocking.

Format: Print: A3, under preparation.
Price for printed book: under re-consideration.
ISBN: 978-91-981603-9-0 (print)
Digital edition is free to download here (Link).
ISBN: 978-91-990299-2-4 (pdf)
Published in 2025.

Jakob F. Dittmar:
Goethen.
Town-map and guide.
The map is based on Goethes life and work but also on influences and reactions on his work. The two city-walks in the guide lead through the map with focus on the women in Goethes life respectively on the development of the Faust-material throughout his life.
Format map: A1 (ca. 84x59 cm) in four colour-print.
---> A fine art-print of the map, limited to 50 copies, numbered and signed, is on offer separately.
Format guide: A5, 16 pages, images in colour.
Price for map and guide: 30 Euro.  --->  Price for map in limited fine-art print: on request.
ISBN 978-91-981603-6-9
Published in 2024.

Jakob F. Dittmar:
Schlaraffia - The Faux Dignitas of Pseudo-Knights.
Reflections on Schlaraffia, the quite ironic MMLARPG that is played in German language.
This book looks into the game and its peculiar set-up to establish what it is that keeps it being played continually for more than 150 years and counting. Text in English.
Format: A5, 40 pages, b/w, no images. Price: 10 Euro.
Link to free download.
ISBN 978-91-981603-5-2
Publicerades 2018.

Jakob F. Dittmar:
Gedichte. Gut abgehangen.
Some poems (almost all in German, one in Dutch: naar huis komen) on media, on places, on ideas, on love or not, and, of course, the weather. (Dodosonett was published first in Frankfurter Bibliothek des zeitgenössischen Gedichts 2015.)
Here are some to read.
Format: A5, 60 pages, b/w. Price: 10 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-4-5
Published 2016.

Xylo:
Randnotizen eines rostigen Ritters
Texts reflecting on and taking part in Schlaraffia,
the role-playing game (in German, the language of the very same game).
Format: A5, 72 pages, colour. Price: 16 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-3-8
Published 2016.

Jakob F. Dittmar:
Journeyman
Some Poems in English
of which current address and A Poet were published in the Shipwrights Review 2016 first.
Here are some to read.
Format: approx. A5, 28 pages. Price: 10 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-2-1
Published 2016.

John McCrae: In Flanders Fields / Auf Flanderns Feldern
One poem in two languages, from two directions, illustrated with historic photos and newspaper-clippings.
Format: A5, 20 pages, b/w & colour. Price: 8 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-1-4
Published 2015.

Jakob F. Dittmar: What if...?
A streetmap-comic-essay, printed & delivered as leporello.
Format: approx. 33 x 163 cm, colour. Price: 20 Euro.
ISBN 978-91-981603-0-7
Published 2014. Currently out of print.