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9th May: independent comics in Aprilia\Italy
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
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.
Naples COMICON 2009 – Crime comics
Naples COMICON 2009 – Crime comics
XI Edition of the International Comics Expo – Naples 24\26 April
Special guests: Tanino Liberatore, Leonardo Ortolani, Massimo Carnevale and many others.
20 minutes wolrd premiere of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
Full programm here qui.
ITALIA UNDERGROUND : 4 BOOKS, 4 AUTHORS
ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALESSANDRO BARONCIANI, GIANLUCA COSTANTINI, MARINO NERI E SQUAZ ONLY AT
BUCHAREST, LIBRERIA CÃRTURESTI, STR. ARTHUR VERONA, 13
5 MAGGIO – 26 MAGGIO 2008
Don’t miss the opportunity to visit Libreria Carturesti, in the very heart of the town. There – from the underground comic Italian culture - you can check the first exhibition of ever in Romania of four brand new artists. The event is curated by Elettra Stamboulis and it is sponsored by Italian Institute of Culture of Bucharest.
But you can get even more: Squaz and Costantini do a workshop open to the public the 12nd and 13rd of May at the Universitatea Naţională de Arte (Str. G-ral Budisteanu, n. 19).
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Kanjano, what’s that?
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
Contacts:
www.kanjano.org
email: kanjano@gmail.com
skype: kanjano00
Ho Che Anderson: behind the scenes
I know you all like the "behind the scenes" stuff, so: all the pictures, of the brunch and the video you can't find in the article.
The big one on Ho Che Anderson, the Canadian cartoonist who did the graphic novel King, Ho Che Anderson, here. You can purchase his work at fantagraphics.
Below, some shots from the Komikazen Festival days:
Batman cover, DC Comics
Scream queen
The interview (photo Emanuele Grifoni)
Godhead, the new Anderson's project
From the graphic novel King
Komikazen, all the pictures
Hi all,
just a quick post with the link of the complete Komikazen festival pictures slideshow.
Hell, I must confess: right now I am not able to embed all the flickr stuff here!
By the way, above you can see a piece of the collective Le dernier cri,. Go here for the complete set.
Monipodio's Comic Battle
(poster by Marco K Polenta)
Sharpen the pencils, now!
The Comic Battle rages soon. It is a challenge between cartoonists create by the group of artists Monipodio. A battle where you hit your contender with balloons and cartons.
1st Novemeber to 4th November: four days long, only one will stand up at the end.
Everyone can join the battle. You don’t have to be author. All you need are smart ideas, the ability to improvise and react promptly to the moves of your opponent.
Battle field: Area Self of the Lucca Comics&Games Festival 2007, the most important Italian festival on comics.
Subscriptions: iscrizione-comicbattle(at)monipodio.net
Feel free to ask if you want to know more!
Komikazen: 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics
On Friday, the 12th of October, the 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics Komikazenwill open with a workshop involving authors and promoters coming from all over Europe. Authors of well-known magazines like Strapazin (Svizzera), Babel (Atene), Glomp (Finlandia), Chili Com Carne (Portogallo), and new self-productions coming from new members of the EU, like Romania, active with the magazine Hard Comics, and with various festivals, will participate at the meeting. For the first time in Italy, there will be the young authors of Stripoteka, a Bosnian collective based in Sarajevo.
The Festival highlight will be on Saturday the 13th of October, with the opening of the collective exhibition European Comics Cartography - an exhibit of about 50 European authors - at the Museo Nazionale of Ravenna. The exhibit opens up to a virtual journey, through the youth imaginary, in Europe, a country that widened its borders allowing the flow of comics’ styles and stories.
At 3.30 p.m. there will be the meeting with the author of “Martin Luther King”, Ho Che Anderson: this Canadian author will present the book, published in Italy with Becco Giallo in the Mirada gallery, and will show his original plates at the Biblioteca Classense. A masterly biographical work, which closely follows the light and shade of the Afro-American leader and points out how everyone seems to have forgotten about the political lab of non-violent conflicts. Considered the most important Graphic Novel after Maus, it is a book that touches the boundaries of the political essay, the annotated biography and the novel.
More? The exhibition Honey Talks organized by the Slovenian magazine Stripburger, the collective from Marseilles Le Dernier Cri, Stakhanovites of limited (and expensive) edition books, the winners of the contest promoted by the region Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Ricci and much more…
The exhibitions will stay open until the 15th of November, except for the Dernier Cri that will close the 6th of November.
Detailed info here.
Festival curators Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini.
Festival poster by Armin.
Nat Röfu
kanjano
channeldraw
Paulo Patrício
Armin Barducci
johnybegood to you
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