Sichelmond und Sterne

Marie Marcks, a pioneering German cartoonist, launched Sichelmond und Sterne in 1981 as a single-issue comic for Beltz Verlag. This brief but potent work stands as a sharp, satirical feminist critique of the nuclear family and societal gender roles, rendered in Marcks’s distinctive, caustic line. A landmark of German-language comic art, it remains a touchstone for its unflinching, humorous subversion of domestic life.