Rotopol

Rotopol is an award-winning publishing house for graphic storytelling located in Kassel, Germany. Our catalogue includes comics and picture books for children and adults as well as art prints and stationary. With our publications, we explore the boundaries of what illustration and comics can accomplish and offers readers the chance to discover high quality books and exciting talents with individual drawing and storytelling styles. We focus on books that have been developed by the artists themselves and which combine a powerful graphic technique with innovative narrative styles and personal stories. The originality and creativity inherent in these projects are what excite us about publishing. We envision Rotopol as a platform to manifest the creative potential around us, to further develop it and make it visible in various ways.

Anna Haifisch, Die Grille in der Geige, Rotopol, 2025, © Anna Haifisch

Anna Haifisch’s first picture book for children enchants readers with its charming critters and lovingly quirky humor. As a tongue-in-cheek reference to classic fables, Anna Haifisch tells a story about the appreciation for art and the importance of solidarity in difficult times, again proving her talent as an exceptional artist and storyteller.

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Jakub Plachý, Schaut, ein Elefant!, Rotopol, 2025, © Jakub Plachý

With poetically abstract drawings and playful lightness, Czech artist Jakub Plachý’s picture book tells of the timeless search for freedom and the feeling of belonging.

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“I Don’t Know How to Draw a Tree” is an invitation to rediscover creativity beyond the demands we have learned to place on ourselves. Through the example of trees in all their facets, colors and shapes, the book sketches a philosophy that foregrounds the intuitive joy of the creative process itself. And the delight of encountering the world with an open mind.

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