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GO TIGERS!

THE WORKSHOP IS\HAS GONE BUT...

AOOLEU NUMBER TWO DEADLINE IS 14/06 AKA ONE WEEK FROM NOW.

FOR THOSE WHO STILL DIDNT GET THIER COPY HERE IS A TEMP PDF:

http://www.aooleu.ro/aooleu1.pdf

A5 OR A4 OR A3 COLOR OR BW 300 DPI AND MAKE A NEWS

www.aooleu.ro

mailto: crew@aooleu.ro

Eurogeneration

I find this illustration awesome and any words seem to be unnecessary.

Perhaps because we all find our working conditions unsafe. Read that.

Thanks to Armin for the shoot.

About linEa, today a new project starts: Comics on the ground . Is a google map – on the right – where you can find the European comic scene: blog, magazine, contacts and festival. In the next days I will tell you more. In the meantime, if you wish to put your flag on the map, just drop me a line.

Have a nice day Babel.

Kanjano is a cartoonist from Sicily.

Padania’s green corps are ready to defend the holy land of Padania, that in the mind of the Italian political party Lega Nord is supposed to be somewhere in the North of Italy. The green militia man is going to kick back home any strangers who can threat the Celtic roots of the Padanians. «We doesn’t waste the money of the People of the North building lager, we burn ‘em all immediately!», he says.

During a three years long experience into ADV agencies he achieved a big ability in several illustration techniques: W/b, china ink, water pens (Pantone), watercolors, pastels, digital raster colorization, vector illustration tout-court. His art studies are quiet various: ha attended comic-stages, illustration courses (in Italy & in Germany) and a web animation course.

He collaborates with national and independent magazines, under and overground as well. Often he likes to team up with Ferro, who writes text of his works.

Right now he is part of M, the weekly satirical magazine of the Italian newspaper L'Unità.

ThyssenKrupp AG is a very large German industrial conglomerate, with about 192,000 employees. The corporation consists of 670 single companies worldwide. On December 2007, a fatal fire accident inside a plant in Turin, Italy caused the death of seven steelworkers.

He got a Philosophy Master Degree with an aesthetics’ thesis about an Italian Comic author Andrea Pazienza.

He’s also engaged in “creative writing”: he writes for the anti-mafia sicilian journal Erroneo and for the journal from Rome bazarweb.

The little man prays the octopus, symbol of Mafia. «Our Mafia in heaven… Protect us from the Court… Save us from the time of trial… Amen»

As he is a Sicilian little man he uses to greet you kissing the hand.

Kanjano in three steps:

The cv

Articles

Illustrations

Contacts:

www.kanjano.org

email: kanjano@gmail.com

skype: kanjano00

Five years ago we used to say that selling comics in Romania was like trying to sell ice-cream to Inuits. Four years later we can proudly state that it now resembles selling pork in Palestine.

Hardcomics began 6 years ago in the city we call Bucharest. The birthchild of Serbian graphic designer Milos Jovanovic and Romanian animator Matei Branea, later on to be joined by Street artist Andy Sinboy. The meeting of these comic fans spawned Romania’s first independent (and back then only) comic book publication. The first issue called "Aaarghh" was made by Romanian painter and illustrator Roman Tolici, a bizarre, neurotic and abstract compilation of sex, violence, love and beauty. The second issue was by our own Matei Branea and his lovably chainsmoking character Omulan. This issue was mute and looked at man’s relationship with a God which is enforced on him, as well as how to get extremely high and party.

For the third issue we captured a million pigeons and tied messages to their neck, telling people that we were going to publish a compilation of Romanian comics, professional or amateur, if it made us chuckle or think it was going in. After a few months we were proud to present a compilation comic book featuring different styles from 28 artists. At the time there was no other means of publishing physical comic books in Romania. Comic book culture in Romania is still next to zero. You can barely find a couple of international comics in two specialized bookshops in Bucharest. Nonetheless we are sticking to our horses, providing a platform for anyone who enjoys frames and speech bubbles as a form of communication, interaction, entertainment or masturbation.

Since we began, we have grown from a small company of three people to a massive corporation with one boss, two exhausted employees and a horny cat. Our first issues were self financed, but we were fortunate to have made a statement and produced some quality books which have gotten noticed by cultural institutions such as the Romanian Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) which sponsored the print for the compilation 'Hardcomics 6 - The Anthology'.

Now, is time of the new issue: Hardcomics #7: First sexual experience.

Order your copy: crew@hardcomics.ro

Hardcomics #7 €9.99

By Arnald.

Translation: Angela Steen