Belly Flop. The Story of a Teen Pregnancy
German, Edition Moderne, 2025
Noemi just knows she’ll never get pregnant: skinny chicks can’t have kids. But the impossible happens: she’s 17 and with child.
In addition to her own fears and inner conflicts, Noemi must also confront all the voices from outside: her family, her boyfriend, teachers, doctors, even strangers in the street all know better than she does and don’t hesitate to say so.
With bitter humor and bright colors, Dufner shows how Noemi, never taken seriously and so often a supporting character in her own pregnancy, wrests back control of her own body and story.
- Title
- Bauchlandung. Geschichte einer Teenager-Schwangerschaft
- Publisher
- Edition Moderne
- Translation rights
- eddy agency / Sarah Lapalu, sarah@eddy-agency.com
- Publication date
- 2025
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 978-3-03731-273-5
- Awards
- Prix Delément’BD: Bester Schweizer Comic 2025
Author
Wanda Dufner
Wanda Dufner (born in 1992 in Zurich) grew up in the Canton of Aargau, where she still lives today. She studied visual communications with a focus on illustration fiction at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and currently works as an illustrator, cartoonist and artist in her studio at the Wisa Gloria co-working space in Lenzburg. For her Belly Flop, she received a 2021 Comic-Stipendien der Deutschschweizer Städte grant and was nominated for the 2023 Comic Book Award from the Berthold Leibinger Foundation.
Photo: © Tania Lienhard
