Comics in Europe

Le Sketch #08: Scott Morse Out Now! (10 Free signed copies, from September)

scott_morse_le_sketch.png

In this new issue, cartoonist Scott Morse presents a series of 14 sketches taken from his personal sketchbooks featuring random strangers in San Francisco and Disneyland. You will find plenty of tourists wandering leisurely around, seniors sleeping in chairs or just looking at nature in amazement!

scottmorse_open_small.jpg

About Scott: his award-winning comics work includes the books Soulwind, Magic Pickle, Plastic Man, The Barefoot Serpent, Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!, and Notes Over Yonder. He currently works for Pixar in story and design, with credits including Ratatouille and Wall*E.

Stay tuned, because in early September we will give away 10 signed copies by Scott.

Le Sketch is available for free in these locations - get your free copy now!

Please, (re)Tweet, (re)post and share the good news: http://www.lesketch.com/2009/08/le-sketch-08-scott-morse/

INGUINEMAH!2009

coverdesign1.jpg

Inguine new issue even richer, ready to explore the contemporary art, illustrations, underground comics.

Hot names: Dash Shaw, Ulli Lust, Max Andersson, John Porcellino, Matti Hagelberg.

Special section against the death penalty with Giuseppe Palumbo and Daniele Brolli, in support to the association Nessuno Tocchi Caino\Hands off Cain:

Curated by Gianluca Costantini

Publisher Comma 22

Pagg. 256

18,00 €

Berlin 04.07.2009: BlattSpezial

blattspezial-4.07.09.jpg

BLATT SPEZIAL mit:

Lutz Braun, Stefanie Brottrager, Secundino Hernandez, Alexandra Hopf, Shila Khatami, Anne Neukamp, Renaud Regnery, Eva Seufert, Manfred Peckl

Wir freuen uns über Ihr Kommen

am 04.07.2009 ab 20,00 Uhr

Babette Bar Karl-Marx-Allee 36 Berlin

musik: disB - Andreas Bolz u.a.

www.blattspezial.org

Le Sketch: 10 free signed by Craig Atkinson: fast fast fast furious!

CA_news.png

In this seventh issue, illustrator Craig Atkinson give us sketches of people that might exist, but probably don't, mysterious diagrams and imaginary buildings - you can read all about it in here

And yes, we have 10 free signed copies by Craig to give away... to the first 10 to send an e-mail to

freebies@lesketch.com

please, don't forget to write name and snail mail address in your message.

Help spread the news by posting about Le Sketch in your blog, website or any social network site.

The Boss, Paulo Patrício

~

www.lesketch.com

facebook page

“L'Estate di Michele”: child labour and comics



“L'Estate di Michele” (Micheal’s Summer) is a 48 pages long comic book about the life of a group of young people who spend the Summer in Sicily. The book deals with issues like dropping out the school and the child labour.

The authors are Sergio Staino, Gianluca Ferro and Giuliano Cangiano. The comic book is supported by Regione Toscana, Provincia di Pisa and the International Labour Organization through the campaign SCREAM (Supporting Children’s Rights through Arts, Education and the Media).

Look the teaser:

Bucharest is: Hardcomics 9!!

HC9-site.jpg

On the 4th of April we have the chance of celebrating an event of great momentum:

the launch of Hardcomics #9 by Brynjar Åbel Bandlier, titled Strîmb Life!

So:

Alexandru Donici nr. 7, Bucharest. (yahoo map)

The doors will be opened at 16:00 and the official launch will be held at 18:00.

Your host will be none other than Master of Ceremony Paul de Luxxxe.

You will be able to buy, sell, exchange, talk and eat comics and listen to the melodious music of the usual DJs.

So, arrivederci and tra-la-la !

www.hardcomics.ro

www.aooleu.ro

ADAGIO GOES TO LONDON by Maki Shimizu: free download!

ADAGIO visited Father Robert in London. In his bag he had a dictionary, and a few lead and coloured pencils...

It is the beginning of Adagio in London. Download the comics and read it all, is FREE!

adagio_tea.jpg

…ADAGIO wants to be able to read Hebrew, Greek and Arabic soon too, like Father Robert can. But that will have to wait! Because it is difficult enough to make proper English tea. That’s my first project.

Adagio is the first comic series of Maki Shimizu. Here you can read the adventure of the cat Adagio and his friend Maki Maus. The series counts 9 small books with strips and one long story that you can find attached at the end of the post.

Tokyo, Berlin and now Paris are the cities in the life of Maki Shimizu. I met her in Berlin, Goerlitzer Park, at the presentation of the new issue of Aooleu.

Grazie Maki!

European cartoon competition: money! Geld! soldi!

So, the story is that the European Commision open a competition about cartoon.

The story is that there are 6.000\4.000\2.000 euro for the first, the second and the third.

The story is that you have untill mid-Febraury for doing something.

Check this:

www.eurocartoon.eu

In culo alla balena as we say in Italy.

Blatt Spezial: last three issues in Berlin

BLATTSPEZIAL

is pleased to announce the launch of its last three issues this

Thursday, December 11th at 9 pm. Kim Bar , Brunnenstr.10 Berlin -Mitte

The project BlattSpezial is an art edition. It started in March 2005 and is planned for the duration of five years, four times a year, each edition of 250 copies. Artists from different artistic fields are invited to contribute to the edition with texts and images.

www.blattspezial.org

BlattSpezial-12.jpg

In the picture, Blatt Spezial 12, December 2007 with Gianluca Costantini, April Gertler e Ian Szydlowski Alvarez.

Factory: The presentation of the first volume in Ravenna

Factory: The presentation of the first volume in Ravenna Factory

By Gianluca Morozzi e Michele Petrucci

Publishing house Fernandel Meet the authors Saturday 15th November 2008 ore 6pm

Galleria Mirada – Libreria Interno 4

Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna



factory.jpg

Five people wake up in a old factory. They don’t know each other. They do not know who has locked up them there or why, and have no memory of how they came there. The factory is a maze with no way out, and from its spectral corridors sounds and voices of other human beings come out...



In this way begins FactorY, the comic created by Gianluca Morozzi (lyrics) and Michael Petrucci (drawings). First of three volumes that come out every four that makes up the first part of this project along the lines of the TV series.

- page 2 of 4 -

Entries feed