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BUY A CARTOON!
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Wolfgang Niesielski was born in Schoeneck in the former East Germany. The second of three children Wolfgang discovered his aptitude for art and
cartooning very early in life.
As a child of three he was known to doodle endlessly by the kitchen table, often to annoyance of his mother.
When he was six
he developed cartoon strips for the amusement of his classmates, which he would take to school. His father Georg Niesielski made the decision to escape East Germany when Wofgang was twelve.
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He sent for his family a year later, and the Niesielskis moved to Lindhorst, in West Germany.
Wolfgang attended Gymnasium in Stadthagen. At the age of 14 he excelled in gymnastics and became an amateur boxer as a teenager of 17. Tournaments, in
which he participated received public acclaim often reported in the media. Wolfgang, as a teenager, also hitchhiked across Europe visiting such places as
Yugoslavia, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Denmark and France. At the age of 19 he was drafted into the Bundeswehr (the German military), like most other young men for 18 months.
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He came to the United States at the age of 22, with only $ 100.00 in his pocket, and had to work at several jobs to make ends meet. He hitchhiked
across the United States from New York to Idaho, to Texas, California and New York.To survive he worked at different jobs, from hauling irrigation pipes in the potato fields of Idaho to washing dishes in
California. He also labored swinging
ten-pound hammers in a rock quarry, carried bricks and mortar up ladders at construction sites and boxed. As a young artist he survived also by drawing caricatures in such exotic locations as Hawaii.Wolfgang settled in Northern California, near San Francisco, where he has lived now for many years. He is a writer and cartoonist and has drawn over 100,000 individual caricatures in his career.
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His published books include “Touched by Choi”, a thriller with a dark twist, and “A Parallel Universe”, an offbeat collection of cartoons.
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Wolfgang met his wife Ebele, an attorney from Nigeria in 1998. She has been his partner and soul-mate ever since.
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