European elections 2009

nowords comics - call for entries

We're proud to present Bolzano Comics, an international comic contest dedicated to short, wordless comics that narrate without the use of the classic balloon, and are therefore international by their very nature.

The contest was born as part of the Bolzano ShortFilmFestival, an event which has seen, in the last years, a rising interest for animation and comics. Hence the need to strenghten the link between these worlds through an ad hoc contest.

Submission deadline: August 15th 2009

First price: 500 Euro

Second price: 200 Euro

poster by Armin Barducci

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Sunday, May 17 2009 By Nat Röfu - Festival

eurocartoon.eu: the winners!

The contest has the 3 European winners.

Here you can see the slideshow with all the finalists:

cafebabel.com

and then, the winners!

1st Prize: Mehdi Boualam (Belgium)

2nd Prize: Sibila Koritareva (Bulgaria)

3rd Prize: Stephan Timmers (Netherlands)

Monday, May 11 2009 By Nat Röfu - Events

Palestine's Agony

By Ben Heine

Saturday, May 9 2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

9th May: independent comics in Aprilia\Italy

Saturday, 9th May 2009

From: 16.20 to 22.00

Where: Latitudine 42 Comics

Address: Via degli aranci, 65

City/Country: Aprilia, Italy

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Tel.: 3332087177

E-mail: simone@lamette.it

Exhibition of original artworks and workshop about the Italian independent productions. Guests of the day: Antropoide, Lamette Comics, Grrrzetic Editrice. They will show the whole catalogue.

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Friday, May 1 2009 By Nat Röfu - Events

My Nasty Sister: canvans on bag

My Nasty Sister is the new project of Nicola Ferrarese, illustrator and editorial manager of the publishing house Edizioni del Vento. Below some shots:

That's my favorite, I confess, the puppet: kill'em all! I am sure she loves Metallica.

On the website you can read: EACH BAG IS DESIGNED AND HAND-PAINTED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, AND EACH ARTICLE IS CANVAS MADE, UNIQUE AND UNREPEATABLE! ALL BAGS ARE HANDMADE BY OUR TAYLOR, COME ON...BE NASTY!!!

Nicola thinks that girls - economic crisis or not - are always attracted by personalized, exclusive and high quality bags. They wish and are ready to spend.

This one reminds me the colorful world of the Finnish artist Tommi Musturi and his Glömp.

Check all the bags of the factory here: mynastysister.com \ email: mynastysister at gmail.com

Thursday, April 16 2009 By Nat Röfu - Events

Mathieu Chedid (also known as -M-)

He is a French guitar player and singer, totally unknow to me!

Thanks Ben Heine

Tuesday, April 14 2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

Portrait: Pope Benedict XVI

by Ben Heine

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Sunday, March 29 2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

Contemporary drawing fair in Paris: Gianluca Costantini

Sixty-three galleries will be investing this typically Parisian center in order to present contemporary drawing in all its diferents shapes and forms, upon various supports and through all imaginable techniques : from works on paper to video, from digital works to wall-drawings. As in the previous years, exhibitors will present the work of one artist at least a third of their stand for visitors to get to know more about the work of a specific artist as a whole.

Salon du dessin contemporain - Paris, 26/29 March 2009 Gianluca Costantini exhibitions, gallery Miomao

Gianluca Costantini shows 3 different works: DAILY IRAQ, text by Elettra Stamboulis

UNTITLED drawing art, check here

PORTO DEI SANTI, here

Thursday, March 26 2009 By Nat Röfu - Festival

Italian comics in Belgrade

At the Italian cultural institute in Belgrade there was an exhibition that represents a retrospective of the first 100 years of the Italian comics with more than 250 illustrations divided into 9 sections.

MARKO ANDREJIĆ, Wave Magazine deux ex machina, met the curator of the event Andrea Plazzi:

«I can see that in the entire history of Italian comic books there are openness and sensitivity of Italian authors to foreign influences and authors. An example would be 1910s and 1920s when French influences came into Italy - for example, Antonio Rubino was one of the biggest importers of French art in Italian comic books production. This is followed by 1930s and '40s when Italian authors opened themselves to adventure comics and American school, first of all to Alex Raymond, the author of Flash Gordon. After that to Milton Cliff who influenced Italian authors, among which were Hugo Prat and Aurelio Galepini, author of Tex, one of the most influential Italian heroes, and all the way to Paolo Parisi who is our guest in Belgrade these days.»

The full article on www.wavemagazine.net