Simon Schwartz is a German illustrator, comic writer and cartoonist. His work is published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Die Zeit and other newspapers and magazines. He has written graphic novels including "drüben!" and "Packeis" and his work has been translated into French and English.
Simon Schwartz at the "Comic Salon", Erlangen in 2014
The "Kubus" at the Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstrasse, Erfurt, on which Schwartz's work "Thuringia in Autumn" is drawn.
Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together. He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole.
Henson c. 1910
Henson in his Arctic furs
Photograph of Henson and the four Inuit guides on the last stretch of their 1908–09 expedition, taken by Peary at what they believed to be the North Pole.
Illustration of Matthew Henson by Charles Henry Alston