Interview by Steve Marais
Featuring Eric Schwarz aka Comic Blues
Published on 23 March 2025
Eric Schwarz aka Comic Blues is a lanky, slightly awkward comic artist with a “great butt” who thrives in Paris despite freezing his ass off in crop tops. By day he creates poetic literary fantasies while cuddling platonically with friends to satisfy physical cravings, by night he eats cookies and dreams of making self-printed comics in an oceanside studio with someone who loves him and never gets sick of him. Where do we apply?
Eric @comicblues
Steve @heavyferal
@comicblues in a 3PULL conversation with @heavyferal
CHEAT SHEET
☞ Skinny dude, thick booty
☞ Poetically horny
☞ Famous enough to fool a teenage fangirl
☞ Making Paris romantic again
☞ Loves love
☞ NSFW but literally for work
☞ Does whatever it takes to pay bills
☞ Crazy, not wise
Who are you?
Hi I’m Eric, I’m a german comic artist and illustrator living in Paris. I work in a lot of different mediums and styles. I do whatever I can to pay my bills so that I can use my spare time to write comics. I love doing sports and vitamins and sauna and ice baths and breathing exercises and therapy and singing and watching TV. I don’t like cooking or cleaning or anything that has to do with money or restaurants or techno parties or being lazy. I dream of having someone to love and being loved and living by the ocean and having a little studio with a printer so I can make my own comics and I don’t have to worry about money and we never get sick or sick of each other and that could be enough.
Heyyy Eric! Thanks for that sweet introduction and for doing this! Let’s jump right in. Pull 3 of these: 🛼 or 🎰 or 🌈 or 📀 or 😈 or 💦 or 🍄 or 🧛 or 🥵 or 🍩 and six numbers between 1 and 100
Okayyy lets playyy:
🛼🌈🧛♂️
Numbers:
8, 22, 76, 77, 89, 96
First: a personality assessment based on your emojis 🛼🌈🧛♂️ – Deluxe homo, thrives at night. You’re magnetically drawn to darkness and beauty. Your emotional depth is both your superpower and your kryptonite. Trust the stars, but remember to charge your phone.
Hahaha pretty good. Only that I don’t thrive at night, all I wanna do after 9pm is watch TV and eat cookies. But the rest is pretty accurate 🙂
[Play our interview sl✱t machine]
The featured artist pulls any three of these emojis.
Each emoji unlocks a set of questions.
Then they pick six numbers between 1 and 100. Those numbers correspond to specific questions from each emoji set.
An intimate profile is created entirely by chance, and is conducted entirely via text message. Questions range from random to specific, mild to wild.
☞You need to be interesting
☞You need something to share
☞You need to be willing to answer whatever comes up
3 emojis
6 numbers
18 questions
1 conversation
No take-backs
Lol sounds like me… Ok Here goes. What’s the best place to have sex that isn’t a bedroom?
Haha i gotta say the shower. Even though that’s a bit boring. But I love showers.
Nothing wrong with that! What’s your favourite time of day, and why?
It’s hard to choose because I don’t have a very consistent routine. But I’d say the middle of the day. Cuddles on the couch after lunch. When you already had a productive morning, and you still have all the afternoon ahead of you.
Super cute answer!
It’s the best.
Do you have a daytime cuddle buddy?
Yeah I have a few 😀 I’ve been single for a year now and I reeaaally physically need cuddles. And that’s something I can’t do with a random hookup. So I’m lucky to have some friends who cuddle with me.
Lucky boy! Except the breakup. Sorry about that
“Apparently that’s life”, everyone kept telling me. C’est la vie.
One day we’ll get C’est la vie drunk together.
You’re a poet and I’m fascinated with how you formulate things. Have you always been a deep child? Wise beyond your years? Old soul?
I think unfortunately I’m just crazy. I think If I was wiser I would be happier and calmer and more balanced. I think I’m just a romantic. And I think thanks to my drawings I can kinda live in this literary fantasy world where I can write deep and poetic things without being afraid to sound too cheesy or phony or dumb.
I am literally amazed with your depth. And your vulnerability. How do you feel about your own butt? Honest opinion. No modesty.
Hahahaha I like my butt. It got me some great compliments. When I was 19 I wore high heels for a costume party for the first time, and one of my straight friends had his hands on the curve of my lower back and said: “damn Eric you do have a great butt,” and since then I think I do.
Wolf Moon — The Moon Diaries 1
A story about a boy who falls helplessly in love with a wolf. But can that wolf reciprocate his feelings? Or is it just a wild animal incapable of romance?
How are you on heels?
Ridiculous. I already have quite long legs and arms so I really look like a crazy spider. And I have big feet so I never reeaaally fit into the shoes so yeah it’s all a bit awkward.
Also… big feet… 🤤
I need them for stability.
People with small feet must be so unbalanced…
Hahahaha true
Do you believe people can change, or do we just get better at hiding things?
I think we get better at showing things and I think that’s change.
This! Excellent answer
Good setup 😜
Name something you never thought you’d be into until you tried it.
Cigarettes. I start and I stop whenever it suits me. But I never smoke a lot. I can’t handle it, it makes me too dizzy and nauseous. But yeah when I was a kid I thought why would anyone ever do this, it’s so stupid and unhealthy. And then you try it and then you get it.
Also, it’s sexy. There’s a certain danger and carefreeness to it.
It’s horrible, one of the only cravings that you can so easily instantly satisfy
Do you think people’s fetishes make it into their work?
I guess so. I get so turned on by romance that’s all I write about. I’m sure that an artist who draws only big leather bears must be into that or whatever your kink is.
Right. Yea I think art is a big outlet for one’s fantasies
I prefer when it’s a little more subtle though. If someone really only draws one thing that turns them on, it’s almost like they’re jerking off rather than making art. But then again, who am I to say what’s art and what’s not, that was bullshit, sorry. I guess it just seems to easy for me
You’re Comic Blues, master of the universe!
Hahaha I would love to know what shady things people say about me behind my back
I’d prefer not to, actually. Fuck em. On a scale of one to private browsing, how safe for work is your internet activity?
Ehm… a little bit of both 😀
So a 5?
The problem is sometimes I have to google kiss or sex scenes or naked bodies as reference pictures for drawings and it’s easy to find in porn and then I just have a 100 porn tabs open and download on my phone and I don’t even think about hiding them because its just for research you know, but if other people would see it I guess they wouldn’t get that.
Relatable. I get that.
Its NSFW but it’s literally for work
What’s a completely random thing that gives you a massive serotonin boost?
Luckily so many things, and they are all random if you think about it… Cake, massages, swimming, haircuts…
You’re a sensory fella, aren’t you?
Mh oh I guess I am, haha. I never thought about that.
You read me like a book, Steve.
So you like showers eh? Golden or clear?
All kind of showers! Shower me in money, shower me in complements, shower me with love
Give give give 😛
Poetry again! Have you ever instantly regretted an outfit the second you left the house?
Haha listen, I’m gonna say no. If I learned anything from living in Paris it’s that you can wear anything you want. The Fashion world is crazy and if anyone would try to tell me what I’m wearing isn’t cool that would be ridiculous because who’s getting to judge that? The only thing I often regret as a German is putting on a crop top when it’s actually way too cold and then freezing my ass off knowing that that was my stupid choice of not bringing a jacket.
Cute, but cold.
I wish I could wear a crop top. But no. I’d be serving maternity realness.
I’d say go for it, If that’s the look you wanna go for 😀
Hahaha! I’ll pass, but thanks xoxo
Do you feel comfortable in your own body?
Somedays yes somedays no.
I realise we don’t have much choice so I try to be happy with it even when I’m not. And then other days I look in the mirror and think fuck yeah.
If you had to lose one erogenous zone, which would you sacrifice?
That’s soooo evil, what? None… okay nippels I guess.
Hahahahahahaha SAME! I mean… The others are too good
It’s the only possible answer
Have you ever been mistaken for a famous person?
Haha yes, I had a colored buzzcut and I was wearing sunglasses and there was a teenage girl who asked me if I was RIN (a german rapper). I told her no. She asked if she could take a picture anyways
I thought it was quite fun that it didn’t really matter to her if I was actually him or not. And in the picture you almost couldn’t tell. Aside from the fact that obviously that guy would never just randomly sit at the train station of my little hometown.
This is him. I like his music also
I can see the resemblance! Where do all the lost things go?
“The house doesn’t lose anything”. My grandma used to say that. So I assume they don’t go anywhere, they are still in the house. And if you want to find them you just have to light a candle and pray to St. Antonius and he’ll help you find it. It works every time.
Okayyyy… Thanks Grandma
That wasn’t ironic. I actually do that. If it’s something really important I might even call her and ask her to light the candle for me, because she holds more power for that I think.
I love that. I really do.
Let’s wrap this up. What are you currently working on and where can we find you?
I am working on a new comic book proposal. I have to present it to the editor in two weeks so you can find me anxiously working on that for the next two weeks 🙂 Other than that I’m a bit all over the place as usual, literally traveling and figuratively looking for new projects. I’m working on three stories at the same time, trying to make money and trying to find love. But, you can always find me online of course @comicblues
Happy to stay connected with you on our evil social media platforms 😉
Published on 23 March 2025
Eric Schwarz has been working as a freelance illustrator and comic author since 2019. Among other things, he worked for The New York Times, presented his work at the Pictoplasma conference and published his second book The Art Of Oversharing with Paripé Books in 2024.
His work has been exhibited in Berlin, Paris, New York and Menorca—and was named one of the best works of 2024 by the Society of Illustrators. Since 2022 he has been teaching courses for comics and illustration at HBKsaar.
If sharing, kindly mention @heavyferal and the artist(s) @comicblues
Interview by Steve Marais
Featuring Eric Schwarz aka Comic Blues
Published on 23 March 2025
Eric Schwarz aka Comic Blues is a lanky, slightly awkward comic artist with a “great butt” who thrives in Paris despite freezing his ass off in crop tops. By day he creates poetic literary fantasies while cuddling platonically with friends to satisfy physical cravings, by night he eats cookies and dreams of making self-printed comics in an oceanside studio with someone who loves him and never gets sick of him. Where do we apply?
Eric @comicblues
Steve @heavyferal
@comicblues in a 3PULL conversation with @heavyferal
CHEAT SHEET
☞ Skinny dude, thick booty
☞ Poetically horny
☞ Famous enough to fool a teenage fangirl
☞ Making Paris romantic again
☞ Loves love
☞ NSFW but literally for work
☞ Does whatever it takes to pay bills
☞ Crazy, not wise
Who are you?
Hi I’m Eric, I’m a german comic artist and illustrator living in Paris. I work in a lot of different mediums and styles. I do whatever I can to pay my bills so that I can use my spare time to write comics. I love doing sports and vitamins and sauna and ice baths and breathing exercises and therapy and singing and watching TV. I don’t like cooking or cleaning or anything that has to do with money or restaurants or techno parties or being lazy. I dream of having someone to love and being loved and living by the ocean and having a little studio with a printer so I can make my own comics and I don’t have to worry about money and we never get sick or sick of each other and that could be enough.
Heyyy Eric! Thanks for that sweet introduction and for doing this! Let’s jump right in. Pull 3 of these: 🛼 or 🎰 or 🌈 or 📀 or 😈 or 💦 or 🍄 or 🧛 or 🥵 or 🍩 and six numbers between 1 and 100
Okayyy lets playyy:
🛼🌈🧛♂️
Numbers:
8, 22, 76, 77, 89, 96
First: a personality assessment based on your emojis 🛼🌈🧛♂️ – Deluxe homo, thrives at night. You’re magnetically drawn to darkness and beauty. Your emotional depth is both your superpower and your kryptonite. Trust the stars, but remember to charge your phone.
Hahaha pretty good. Only that I don’t thrive at night, all I wanna do after 9pm is watch TV and eat cookies. But the rest is pretty accurate 🙂
[Play our interview sl✱t machine]
The featured artist pulls any three of these emojis.
Each emoji unlocks a set of questions.
Then they pick six numbers between 1 and 100. Those numbers correspond to specific questions from each emoji set.
An intimate profile is created entirely by chance, and is conducted entirely via text message. Questions range from random to specific, mild to wild.
☞You need to be interesting
☞You need something to share
☞You need to be willing to answer whatever comes up
3 emojis
6 numbers
18 questions
1 conversation
No take-backs
Lol sounds like me… Ok Here goes. What’s the best place to have sex that isn’t a bedroom?
Haha i gotta say the shower. Even though that’s a bit boring. But I love showers.
Nothing wrong with that! What’s your favourite time of day, and why?
It’s hard to choose because I don’t have a very consistent routine. But I’d say the middle of the day. Cuddles on the couch after lunch. When you already had a productive morning, and you still have all the afternoon ahead of you.
Super cute answer!
It’s the best.
Do you have a daytime cuddle buddy?
Yeah I have a few 😀 I’ve been single for a year now and I reeaaally physically need cuddles. And that’s something I can’t do with a random hookup. So I’m lucky to have some friends who cuddle with me.
Lucky boy! Except the breakup. Sorry about that
“Apparently that’s life”, everyone kept telling me. C’est la vie.
One day we’ll get C’est la vie drunk together.
You’re a poet and I’m fascinated with how you formulate things. Have you always been a deep child? Wise beyond your years? Old soul?
I think unfortunately I’m just crazy. I think If I was wiser I would be happier and calmer and more balanced. I think I’m just a romantic. And I think thanks to my drawings I can kinda live in this literary fantasy world where I can write deep and poetic things without being afraid to sound too cheesy or phony or dumb.
I am literally amazed with your depth. And your vulnerability. How do you feel about your own butt? Honest opinion. No modesty.
Hahahaha I like my butt. It got me some great compliments. When I was 19 I wore high heels for a costume party for the first time, and one of my straight friends had his hands on the curve of my lower back and said: “damn Eric you do have a great butt,” and since then I think I do.
Wolf Moon — The Moon Diaries 1
A story about a boy who falls helplessly in love with a wolf. But can that wolf reciprocate his feelings? Or is it just a wild animal incapable of romance?
How are you on heels?
Ridiculous. I already have quite long legs and arms so I really look like a crazy spider. And I have big feet so I never reeaaally fit into the shoes so yeah it’s all a bit awkward.
Also… big feet… 🤤
I need them for stability.
People with small feet must be so unbalanced…
Hahahaha true
Do you believe people can change, or do we just get better at hiding things?
I think we get better at showing things and I think that’s change.
This! Excellent answer
Good setup 😜
Name something you never thought you’d be into until you tried it.
Cigarettes. I start and I stop whenever it suits me. But I never smoke a lot. I can’t handle it, it makes me too dizzy and nauseous. But yeah when I was a kid I thought why would anyone ever do this, it’s so stupid and unhealthy. And then you try it and then you get it.
Also, it’s sexy. There’s a certain danger and carefreeness to it.
It’s horrible, one of the only cravings that you can so easily instantly satisfy
Do you think people’s fetishes make it into their work?
I guess so. I get so turned on by romance that’s all I write about. I’m sure that an artist who draws only big leather bears must be into that or whatever your kink is.
Right. Yea I think art is a big outlet for one’s fantasies
I prefer when it’s a little more subtle though. If someone really only draws one thing that turns them on, it’s almost like they’re jerking off rather than making art. But then again, who am I to say what’s art and what’s not, that was bullshit, sorry. I guess it just seems to easy for me
You’re Comic Blues, master of the universe!
Hahaha I would love to know what shady things people say about me behind my back
I’d prefer not to, actually. Fuck em. On a scale of one to private browsing, how safe for work is your internet activity?
Ehm… a little bit of both 😀
So a 5?
The problem is sometimes I have to google kiss or sex scenes or naked bodies as reference pictures for drawings and it’s easy to find in porn and then I just have a 100 porn tabs open and download on my phone and I don’t even think about hiding them because its just for research you know, but if other people would see it I guess they wouldn’t get that.
Relatable. I get that.
Its NSFW but it’s literally for work
What’s a completely random thing that gives you a massive serotonin boost?
Luckily so many things, and they are all random if you think about it… Cake, massages, swimming, haircuts…
You’re a sensory fella, aren’t you?
Mh oh I guess I am, haha. I never thought about that.
You read me like a book, Steve.
So you like showers eh? Golden or clear?
All kind of showers! Shower me in money, shower me in complements, shower me with love
Give give give 😛
Poetry again! Have you ever instantly regretted an outfit the second you left the house?
Haha listen, I’m gonna say no. If I learned anything from living in Paris it’s that you can wear anything you want. The Fashion world is crazy and if anyone would try to tell me what I’m wearing isn’t cool that would be ridiculous because who’s getting to judge that? The only thing I often regret as a German is putting on a crop top when it’s actually way too cold and then freezing my ass off knowing that that was my stupid choice of not bringing a jacket.
Cute, but cold.
I wish I could wear a crop top. But no. I’d be serving maternity realness.
I’d say go for it, If that’s the look you wanna go for 😀
Hahaha! I’ll pass, but thanks xoxo
Do you feel comfortable in your own body?
Somedays yes somedays no.
I realise we don’t have much choice so I try to be happy with it even when I’m not. And then other days I look in the mirror and think fuck yeah.
If you had to lose one erogenous zone, which would you sacrifice?
That’s soooo evil, what? None… okay nippels I guess.
Hahahahahahaha SAME! I mean… The others are too good
It’s the only possible answer
Have you ever been mistaken for a famous person?
Haha yes, I had a colored buzzcut and I was wearing sunglasses and there was a teenage girl who asked me if I was RIN (a german rapper). I told her no. She asked if she could take a picture anyways
I thought it was quite fun that it didn’t really matter to her if I was actually him or not. And in the picture you almost couldn’t tell. Aside from the fact that obviously that guy would never just randomly sit at the train station of my little hometown.
This is him. I like his music also
I can see the resemblance! Where do all the lost things go?
“The house doesn’t lose anything”. My grandma used to say that. So I assume they don’t go anywhere, they are still in the house. And if you want to find them you just have to light a candle and pray to St. Antonius and he’ll help you find it. It works every time.
Okayyyy… Thanks Grandma
That wasn’t ironic. I actually do that. If it’s something really important I might even call her and ask her to light the candle for me, because she holds more power for that I think.
I love that. I really do.
Let’s wrap this up. What are you currently working on and where can we find you?
I am working on a new comic book proposal. I have to present it to the editor in two weeks so you can find me anxiously working on that for the next two weeks 🙂 Other than that I’m a bit all over the place as usual, literally traveling and figuratively looking for new projects. I’m working on three stories at the same time, trying to make money and trying to find love. But, you can always find me online of course @comicblues
Happy to stay connected with you on our evil social media platforms 😉
Published on 23 March 2025
Eric Schwarz has been working as a freelance illustrator and comic author since 2019. Among other things, he worked for The New York Times, presented his work at the Pictoplasma conference and published his second book The Art Of Oversharing with Paripé Books in 2024.
His work has been exhibited in Berlin, Paris, New York and Menorca—and was named one of the best works of 2024 by the Society of Illustrators. Since 2022 he has been teaching courses for comics and illustration at HBKsaar.
If sharing, kindly mention @heavyferal and the artist(s) @comicblues
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