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2025 Recap

Here’s a selection of projects I had the pleasure to work on back in 2025.

In spring I teamed up with my fellow poster artist Dr. Knoche to exhibit our posters in my hometown of Feldkirch. The art show was called Dr. Knacker and took place at Pulverturm – a medieval tower for storing gunpowder built in 1460. Thanks to OKFK for hosting and shout-out to UH! Batman and Heavy Kevy for playing live! Dr. Knoche and me teamed up to design two posters for the event.

In May 2025 I released two new self-published comic books – The Lonely Organ #1 and Speiserest in Peace. Both stories started during 24-Hour Comics Day in Vienna back in 2023 and 2024. I failed finishing either story within 24 hours but I decided to continue nonetheless. They’re both available in my store. Please note that they’re in German (hopefully there’ll be an English version soon!). Here are the covers…

Finally someone asked me to draw some brains! 🙂 I got a call from the European Academy of Neurology to design a poster for their Brain Health Mission. I had a real blast illustrating these 16 Brain Health Essentials.

And finally my brains socks which I initially designed for my Brainwashing Machine installation came to life…

I also did a couple of gig poster last year for Goose, Kreisky and The Offspring…

I had the privilege to see how my buddy EPHK‘s new book Harpy came to life. I was able to follow this awesome project from the first idea to the rough layouts to the finished book. And above all I was asked to contribute a pin-up drawing of the book’s main character Gunnie. I highly recommend Harpy which is out now from Living The Line. Here’s the cover and my pin-up…

ISBN 978-1-961581-12-8

©EPHK

I was also busy with designing a poster for Lil Big Arena at my favourite venue Arena Wien, a pin-up drawing for ACID #1: Acid Noir, some illustrations for BeerLovers‘ 10th anniversary, a series of postcards for AK Vorarlberg in collaboration with Tobias Ludescher and Zeughaus, a postcard for KABINETT comic passage and a The Little Shop of Horrors movie poster for a project by Hireillo called Video Shop: The Blockbuster Experience.

Thanks everybody for their trust and interest in my work! And a Happy New Year 2026! ♥

Michael

The Offspring Linz gig poster

Yay! I had the chance to design another gig poster for The Offspring. This time for their recent show in Linz, Austria. Linz is also called Steel City  – that’s why I came up with this monstrous creature made up of blast furnaces and chimneys and The Offspring’s iconic flaming skull.

The posters are beautifully screen printed by Dr. Knoche in Vienna and I have a couple of signed and numbered copies (limited to 35 APs) available in my store!

Thx again to Chris & the rest of the team over at Collectionzz for making this happen!

Two new comic books!

Good news, everyone! I just finished not one but two comic books! I’ll self-publish them later this month and The Lonely Organ #1 and Speiserest in Peace are now available for pre-order in my store (please note they’re in German language!). Here are the covers:

14,8x21cm, 36 pages, full colour, German language

14,8x21cm, 52 pages, b/w, German language

Both stories started during 24-Hour Comics Day in Vienna back in 2023 and 2024. I failed finishing either story within 24 hours but I decided to continue nonetheless. So one and a half years later I’ll finally be able to show you the finished books!

I will present them on May 28 at Vienna Underground Comix Day & Night at Literaturhaus Wien where I will talk about my process and my experience with 24-Hour Comics Day. There’ll be a comic market that starts at 4 PM and my presentation begins at 7 PM. There will be more talks by Janne Marie Dauer, Franz Suess, Potatoe Publishing, TONTO! and more. I will also attend Vienna Comix on May 31 & June 1 at Marx Halle. If you happen to be in Vienna I hopefully see you there!

A big shout out to Monika Ernst for organising both 24-Hour Comics Days and Zeichenfabrik Wien and OeGeC for the support!

If you want to help me make more comic there’s also a Super Supporter Pack available with signed comics and a lots of goodies!

DR. KNACKER art show on March 7, 2025 @Pulverturm, Feldkirch

I’m happy to announce that I teamed up with my fellow poster artist Dr. Knoche to exhibit our gig posters (and more stuff) in my hometown of Feldkirch. Thanks to OKFK for hosting our art show at Pulverturm – what a fantastic location! If you happen to be in Feldkirch make sure to stop by! Here are all the details and the poster me and Dr. Knoche created…

DR. KNACKER – Gig Posters And More by Dr. Knoche & Michael Hacker
at Pulverturm, 6800 Feldkirch

Friday, 7 March 2025, 5-8PM: opening

Saturday, 8 March 2025, 4PM: live in concert UH! Batman And The Mighty Antiheroes

Opening times:
Friday, 7 March – 5-8PM
Saturday, 8 March – 2-10PM
Sunday, 9 March – 2-6PM
Tuesday, 11 March – 6-9PM