This is the super funny story of the alien Q-R-T. He looks like a boy. but he’s an alien who’s here to study earthlings!

 

The Author:
Ferdinand Lutz studied economics and sociology, but he has been drawing since he was a child. One day, the artist Flix recommended him to the German kids magazine Dein Spiegel, and he has been making comics for them ever since. He is the author of the children’s comic series Rosa und Louis and Q-R-T and he is the co-publisher of Polle, a comics magazine for children. His short movie Stay in Queue was watched and shared online more than 35 millions times, shown on several international film festivals and aired on BBC.

 

Extraterrestrially funny.—Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
A comic so lovely drawn and wittily written that it captures the reader’s heart faster than you can say “bang!”.—Daniela “Fuchskind”, author of Schreiter.

 

 

 

VOL.1: THE NEW NEIGHBOR

2011 | 136 pages | Full color | 6+

Q-R-T looks like a normal boy, but he’s already 122 year old! He comes from space: on his planet, everyone looks like a child, forever. On Earth, Q-R-T wants to study humans, and their strange behavior. He lives with Flummi – a clumsy pet who can take on every shape – in a housing estate, surrounded by curious neighbours. Earthlings look at him as a strange child, but he’s a cheeky alien instead!

 

 

VOL.2: FLUMMI HOME ALONE
2016 | 112 pages | Full color | 6+

Nominated for the Serafina 2017, the young talent award of the German Academy for children’s literature. What if your neighbor were a witty alien who remained a child all his life? If he had a pet that can take any shape? What if you were to explore your surroundings together and experience a lot of adventures? Well, it would be the story of Lara, her neighbor Q-R-T and his pet Flummi. It would be the story in this book. And it would be huge fun!

 

 

VOL.3: NEXT CLASS: EXTRATERRESTRIAL!
2020 | 88 pages | Full color | 6+

Since Lara, Q-R-T’s neighbor, became friend with Q-R-T and Flummi, no day has passed without adventures. But when Lara moves to a new school, the kids’ exciting life is at risk, so Q-R-T and Flummi decide to fly into Lara’s new classroom. With an alien in the school, chaos is inevitable – and so are lots of new adventures! Originally featured on Dein SPIEGEL, readers have accompanied Q-R-T on his adventures every month for some time now, as he tries to figure out why on Earth we have bad-tempered children and, sometimes, badsmelling adults, too.

 

 

VOL.4: IN THE SPACESHIP TO NEW YORK
2021 | 88 pages | Full color | 6+

Awesome! Lara receives the long-awaited invitation to New York for the big congress for young researchers! Great news – but Lara’s mother is not happy at all: going together to New York? Far too expensive! And alone? Far too dangerous! How good is it, that Lara is friends with Q-R-T – the alien who never grows up. Together with Q-R-T and his pet Flummi, Lara simply secretly sets off for New York. Pure adventure!