Budapest Comics Festival

Budapest Comics Festival

15th Budapest International Comics Festival - May 8th to 12th, 2019

2019. május 03. - Bayer Antal

The 15th Budapest International Comics Festival will take place from May 8th to 12th, with the main event held on the last day in Dürer kert.

The official poster was created by Miklós Felvidéki.

This year's international guests are:

- Vittorio Giardino (Italy), whose Hungarian Rhapsody is published on the occasion of the festival by Frike Comics

- Nicolas Mahler (Austria), whose first Hungarian-language comic collection (extracts from Die Goldgruber Chroniken) is published on the occasion of the festival by Nero Blanco Comix

- Jean-Pierre Pécau (France), co-writer of the comic album drawn by Hungarian artist Lajos Farkas,collecting episodes 26 and 34 of the Jour J series. "The Ballad of the Hanged Men" was published in December 2018 by Nero Blanco Comix

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Side events:

- May 8th: opening of the exhibition of the works of last year's Alfabéta and Korcsmáros Pál prize winners (Olivér Csepella, Miklós Felvidéki, József Sváb)

- May 9th: "Top 10 superheroines", a roundtable organized by the Roboraptor blog

- May 10th: opening of the exhibition of Márk László with original art from his comic album "Very bad dreams" to be published on the occasion of the festival

- May 10th: meeting Vittorio Giardino, at the Italian Institute

- May 11th: meeting Jean-Pierre Pécau, at the French Institute

- May 11th: Jodorowsky 90 - roundtable with Próza Nostra

 

14th Budapest International Comics Festival - May 13th, 2018

The 14th Budapest International Comics Festival will take place on May 13th, 2018 in Dürer kert.

The official poster was created by Nóra Vincze.

This year's international guests are:

- Jacques Ferrandez (France), whose adaptation of Albert Camus' The Stranger was published in Hungarian by the Athenaeum publishing house in April.

- Kati Kovács (Finland), whose second Hungarian-language comic album is published on the occasion of the festival by Nero Blanco Comix.

- Thomas Kriebaum (Austria), whose first Hungarian-language comic collection is published on the occasion of the festival by Nero Blanco Comix.

- Alexandru Ciubotariu (Romania), whose second Hungarian-language comic collection is published on the occasion of the festival by Nero Blanco Comix.

- Fabrizio di Tommaso (Italy), cover artist of the first Morgan Lost comic book published on the occasion of the festival by Frike Comics.

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Program of the 12th Budapest International Comics Festival

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11.00 Roundtable on republishing Hungarian comics classics

11.30 Small Press Comics Publishing Series #1 – Finnished Comics. From Photocopiers to Professional Marketing. Development of the comics market in Finland, and how Fingerpori mesmerized the Finns.

VesaKataisto (Arktinen Banaani publishing house, Finland)

12.00 Film director Attila Till talks about comics in his new film, Kills on Wheels

13.00 Award ceremony

                Alfabéta Awards in two categories: best short comic, best long comic published in 2015

                Korcsmáros Pál-award for a remarkable oeuvre – to be given to József Haui (already announced)

13.30 Making Comics before and after an Eisner Award – Interview with RutuModan (Israel)

14.00 How the Hungarian fanzine art scene found the comics scene – Roundtable

14.30 Drawing Dampyr – Interview with Alessio Fortunato (Italy)

15.00 Comic Battle with Hungarian and international artists

 

Stage B

11.00-12.30 Alfabéta nominees talk about their work (short presentations)

14.00 Small Press Comics Publishing Series #2 –Developing ideas into scripts

Harri Römpörti (journalist, critic; Finnland), Emmi Valve (artist; Finnland)

14.30 Small Press Comics Publishing Series #3 – From festival to festival. International and Hungarian Experience.

Milán Kovács (ZSIGER.hu publishing house)

15.00-16.00 Trick and treat. Hungarian Comics artists talk about their tricks

15.00 Tools to use – Judit Tondora - facebook.com/judittondoraart 

15.15 Ink on paper – Győző Dudás - www.doudache.hu

15.30 Using photographic reference – Gergely Oravecz www.oraveczgergely.hu and muut.hu/?p=15753 

15.45 Character design – Róbert Vass facebook.com/nuklearis.baromfi and  facebook.com/kulonosidegennyelven 

International guests of the 12th festival

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Rutu Modan (Israel)

Comics artist and illustrator. Her first comics work involved editing of the Hebew version of Mad magazine, then she founded the Actus Tragicus group with a colleague in 1995. Elected young artist of the year in 1997, and one of her works was the best illustrated children's book that year. Her first graphic novel, Exit Wounds was published in 2007 and translated into several languages. After gaining recognition in Italy and France, it won the Eisner Award in the US. Created short stories for the New York Times and various anthologies. Her next book, The Property was again a huge success and gained her another Eisner in 2014. Rutu Modan's participation at the 12th Budapest International Comics Festival is sponsord by the Israeli Cultural Institute. On this occasion, two special editions of her work will be published as limited editions: Your Number One Fan (2007) and Jamilti (2003) followed by War Rabbit (first published as Haut les mains, peau de lapin in 2009 in a French anthology, with script by Igal Sama).

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Alessio Fortunato (Italy)

Comic artist, has been working fpr various Italian publishers since 1995. His best known series from these early years were Lazarus Ledd and John Doe. Also created shorter stories for magazines and then joined Bonelli in 2011, where five of his Dampyr books have appeared so far. Restarting the Hungarian Dampyr series, Frike Comics have chosen two stories drawn by Fortunato. His participation at the festival is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute.

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Kivi Larmola (Finland)

Comics artists, active since the late 1970-s, won the award of the Finnish Comics Society in 1991. Divides his time between drawing comics and making music. The special edition appearing on the occasion of the festival includes short comics with an autbiographicial theme.

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Pertti Jarla (Finland)

Comic artist, his first was published in 1991. He first caught attention with his humorous series Fingerpori, published in Helsingin Sanomat. He has shown a very different side of this art with Captain Cherep, a story set at the time of the Russian Civil War (1919-22), which was pubished in Hungarian in 2016 by the Comicsmania publishing house.

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Emmi Valve (Finland)

Comics artist and illustrator. Her particularly personal work can be honest to the point of being somewhat frightening. She will be presenting some of them at the festival.

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Vesa Kataisto (Finland)

Director of the Arktinen Banaani publishing house, will do a presentation about the current situation of Finnish comics.

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Harri Römpötti (Finland)

Journalist and critic, will present at the festival a project in which Emmi Valve also took part.

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