Background
Schultheiss was born in Nuremberg.
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A man, a woman, alone in a deserted shipyard sometime in the future. They start playing their sexual games - but suddenly things take a turn for the serious. "Talk Dirty is hardcore filth. True smut, total porn. It is very powerful stuff... Talk Dirty works best when it examines the different ways in which men and women express sexual aggression. Sexual fires - and fantasties - ignite when there's war between the sexes." -Futuresex Night. Somewhere, somewhen. the man and the woman circle one another, like jungle cats. A weighted word here, a furtive touch there - any moment now, one of them might go too far. They have no past. They have no future. They have no names - at least as far as this game is concerned. Because if their names were revealed, they would break the rules of the game. Then that rule gets broken. And the other rules follow... Internationally acclaimed German cartoonist Matthias Schultheiss (creator of the science fiction series Bell's Theorem and the futuristic super-hero comic Propellerman) brings his dark, brooding vision to the world of X-rated comics with Talk Dirty, a story of obsession and fulfillment. In the end, the questions multiply: Which one is the predator? Which one is the victim? And what role will the third player take? Talk Dirty is a hardcore psychodrama that will leave the hardiest reader emotionally drained. BONUS: This edition of Talk Dirty presents, for the first time anywhere, a selection of full-color pages from Schultheiss's earliest draft of the book.
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Schultheiss was born in Nuremberg.
He originally took an education in cabinet-making, then went on to study illustration at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. His first graphic novel called Trucker appeared in 1981 as a serial in the magazine Comic-Reader, and he published two comic adaptations of short stories by Charles Bukowski. His breakthrough came when Franco-Belgian comics magazine L"Écho des savanes published his graphic novels and The Sharks of Lagos as serials from 1985 onwards.
Both were reprinted in three volumes each by Éditions Albin Michel in France, Carlsen Verlag in y, and has been published in by Catalan Communications.
In the early 1990s, Schultheiss as one of several European comic artists was contacted by Kodansha for a new series of manga-style comics by European artists to be called Im Zentrum des Wahnsinns ("In the Center of Madness"). When a lot of work had already gone into the project, Kodansha suddenly cancelled its plans, and Schultheiss"s 400 pages he had drawn so far were never released (up until in May 2001, the mail-order publisher Hummelcomic began issuing one page of it per day on its website).
Schultheiss next intended to get on the American market in 1993 with his own superhero series, entitled Propellerman. But this turned out a flop, and for the rest of the 1990s, Schultheiss withdrew from making comics, only teaching graphics illustration classes in Hamburg, his city of residence, and occasionally wrote scripts for telefilms.
In 2008, he returned with two graphic novels originally published by Kodansha, "Woman on the River" and "Daddy", and in 2010, he published "Journey with Bill" at Glénational
They present a much brighter, more colorful, and more optimistic style compared to his bleak and darkly disturbing work of the 1980s and early 1990s., Albin Michel 1986 #1: Lifer, Catalan Communications 1987 #2: The Connection, Catalan Communications 1988 #3: Contact, Catalan Communications 1989.
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His 1985 graphic novel Kalter Krieg ("Cold War") was indexed as harmful to minors by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, not due to its depiction of sex and violence, but because of its bleak, pessimistic nihilism.