Werner

From 1981 to 1989, German cartoonist Brösel unleashed Werner across six issues from Semmel Verlach, a rowdy, irreverent comic series centered on the titular motorbike-obsessed, beer-loving, and perpetually unlucky antihero. A cultural phenomenon in its homeland, the strip captured the spirit of rebellious, blue-collar humor with its distinctive, scruffy art style and dialect-heavy gags. Brösel’s singular vision—writing and drawing every page—made Werner a raw, personal chronicle of 1980s German counterculture, launching a lasting legacy that extended far beyond the printed page.