'Bill Body'. Translation: "Where is Bill?" - "Down there in the stream, fishing for flies." - "Oh, he has caught quite a bunch already!".
René Lehner grew up with comic books and started drawing at a young age. In 1974, he co-founded Comixene, the first German comic fanzine. At the same time he was selling his first comic strips to various publishers. After leaving Comixene, he began publishing his cartoons on his own. By 1981, he was living in Spain, where he worked for publishers, magazines and Swiss television. In 1986, Lehner returned to Switzerland and created the daily strip 'Bill Body', a sports enthusiast with an egg-shaped head.
'Bill Body'. Translation: "Oh, my fortune-telling program has crashed!" - "Is that a bad sign?".
Lehner also produced weekly strips like 'Willy' and 'Zoo Klamauk'. Throughout the years, his comics have appeared in dozens of magazines all over Europe. For WWF, he set up the children's series 'Gabi Grün'. In 1988, he settled in Hamburg, where he worked on animated films with 'Bill Body' for German commercial television, and on his new science fiction series 'Fred Flamingo'. Back in Zürich in 1990, he cooperated with his wife on the weekly celebrity comic 'Peach Weber', starring the Swiss comedian Peach Weber, who also wrote the scripts. In 1997, Lehner launched the erotic series 'Freudendorf' in Blick, and also wrote the scripts for 'Max und Moni' in Schweizer Illustrierten (art by Rainer Benz).
'Zoo Klamauk'. Translation: "We can't smoke the peace pipe! White man has given up smoking!" - "Ugh! Then we take a nicotine patch!" - "So be it."