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This Weekend: Moscow & London Comics Festivals
Posted: April 26, 2011
One big weekend and trust me, I’m attending not one but two big comics events in two big world capitals! It’s a massive thrill to be invited to KomMissia this coming long weekend, my first every trip to Moscow, with much appreciated help from The British Council and Goethe Institut. As director of London’s Comica Festival, I’m joining Nastya & Heehoos from KomMissia and other comics festival organisers from Angoulême, France, Helsinki, Erlangen in Germany and Komiksfest in Prague to plan an exciting pan-European collaborative comics project entitled Respect, bringing together a team of comic artists to Moscow to create comics about tolerance and understanding between different peoples living together in our modern cities. British artists participating in this are Kripa Joshi and William Goldsmith, who both head out next in early May for six days to work together and complete this anthology. Meantime, this international guests coming to Moscow this weekend include Belgian visionaries , from Spain the brilliant Blacksad duo Canales & Guarnido, and Italy’s Western maestro Ivo Milazzo of Ken Parker fame.
Now if Moscow isn’t exactly on your doorstep, perhaps you can make it to the brand new comics festival in London, Comics @ Sci-Fi London, a totally free weekender of super-star guests, panels, small press fair and much more, all at the BFI Southbank. It’s all organised by the tireless Alex Fitch, who runs the unmissable weekly broadcast and podcast Panel Borders on Resonance FM. I’ll hopefully be jetting back to London on Sunday in time to join the afternoon and host the last panel from 3.30pm on genre crossovers between Horror and Noir with Hannah (Britten & Brülightly) Berry, David (Strange Embrace) Hine, Denise (Hellblazer) Mina, and Mark (Lovecraft) Stafford.
Hope to see some of you at one or other of these capital celebrations of comics!
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