All Drawings of Comic Festivals on one page
Haarlem 1998
Robert Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders
That's his signature (and arrow) up there, I asked him to sign the drawing.
left to right:
Iztok, Mark Hendriks, Ole Comoll Christiansen, Jakob Klemencic, Marcel Ruijters, Maaike Hartjes
(studio of Maaike Hartjes and Mark Hendriks)
(another concert organized by the festival)
Erlangen 1998
Angouleme Jan. 1999
Expo Boucq.
Lewis Trondheim (explaining to children (in the first row) how to draw a monster)
Heftich 1999
Haarlem 2000
Haarlem
Haarlem - Tintin Exhibition
Amsterdam - Lambiek Comicshop & Gallery
Erlangen 2000
Erlangen
Heftich 2001
Berliner Comicfest 2001
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Kulturbrauerei, an old brewery in Berlin, now an arts complex, the venue for the Comicfest. The upper drawing was done a week later. The courtyard was full of tables on the first day. During the night they were all blown to bits in a heavy storm. The second drawings shows the inside of the tall building to the left. |
Comicfest - talks and slideshows (top Jens Balzer, bottom Thierry Groensteen)
Frankfurt Bookfair 2001
| Frankfurt Buchmesse - Two views of the brandnew Hall 3, which is where the Comic events ('Faszination Comic') took place. |
Top: Comic Quartett (four critics discuss four newly published comics)
Bottom: Moebius again, interviewed by Andreas Knigge
Moebius at the Frankfurt bookfair (Buchmesse) - I asked him to sign to my sketch.
Angouleme 2002
| Train from Frankfurt to Paris |
| Two friends joining at Kaiserslautern. |
| Paris Montparnasse, where the trains are leaving for the south of France, including the one to Angouleme. |
| Angouleme at night. This was done on the last day, when even the 'Chat Noir' was closed (notice head of cat), one of the main haunts for international cartoonists. |
| Small cafe next to the Tent New York (I think), where I had a long and peaceful breakfast with a friend. Outside the long queue for the festival tickets. |
| Main tent before the masses are let inside. Topshelf/Knockabout table in the middle. That poster shows Depp in 'From Hell'. |
| Tent New York, the Fanzine tent. |
| Same place, with Stripburger table in the middle. |
| Will Eisner interview. Note his signature. ('Will Eisner, I think') |
| Fanzine tent again, at night. The sketching at night resulted in a terrible cold, obviously. (This was January). |
| Angouleme Comics Museum 'CNBDI' |
| Expo 'Martin Veyron' inside the museum. |
| More exhibitions, the one below organized by Jean-Paul Jennequin about US independent cartoonists. |
| Large exhibition over three floors of the municipal theatre (which also houses the annual prizes) showing work by dozens of young, sometimes very unknown, cartoonists. |
| Wacky event-expo by the group Requins Marteaux, the infamous 'Supermarché Ferraille'. A pseudo supermarket full of 'selfmade' products. On their wine bottles (real) was a very fancy looking label, with the tiny incription 'Les aristocrates a la laterne'. |
| (another sketch done late in the evening, but I was too tired to do any more crosshatching). Palais de la Justice, with a small show of new artists from the Angouleme comic school. |
| Paris, on Tuesday, Institute Finlandais (Finnish Institute), with yet more comics, this time of a famous (in Finland) newspaper strip by Jussi Tuomola. I didn't find time to actually read any, which is a shame, because this was the only opportunity to see them with translation labels. |
The artist in the middle, signing books.
The Swedish Institute, with yet more comic exhibitions.
Paris - Comicshop 'Au Regard Moderne' (August 2002)
Berlin: Wittek 2002
Berlin - exhibition by the comics artist Wittek at the Galerie Grober Unfug.
Hamburg 'Heftich' 2002
Heftich Minicomics Festival - which took place in this nightclub under the bridge. (see arrow)
Tables with selfpublished comics and visitors.
Prizes for best comic. My anthology 'Shtumm' got nothing.
Nearly at the end of the selling bit. Afterwards, there was some loud music:
Trash Emperors
Klaus Cornfield
Klaus Cornfield
Klaus Cornfield
'Die Assozialen Superhelden' dressed up as superheroes (held-hero)
Calle's Pencil-glass (Calle Claus is one of the very best German cartoonists)
'Norddeutsche Comic Messe', a very large comic mart.
Buchmesse 2002
Special Comics section at the Bookfair - Stripburger Exhibition
Trondheim Exhibition
socalled 'Elefantenrunde', a podium discussion of the bigwigs of German comics publishing.
(Elefant means elephant, Runde means round.)
Stripburger table
Igor from Stripburger (eating a dodgy kebab)
'Filu' Illustrators meeting point
Comics exhibition outside the fair, at the Mousonturm, a cultural center.
same exhibition, in fact the same table seen from the other side.
Party at 'Labor', an illustrator's co-op.
another exhibition with 'Labor' artists contributing (rooms inside the Technisches Rathaus)
Party at a club, organized by 'Titanic', the leading satirical magazine in Germany.
A bit like Private Eye. Only has a few comics. More cartoons.
Talk by comics dealer Chuck Rosinsky.
Slideshow about East European comics by Igor Prassel (sorry, doesn't look like him).
Talk about children's comics, as an inroduction to the Trondheim Interview.
Trondheim Interview.
The 'Comic Quartett', a recurring discussion at German festivals of four critics chewing the fat about four
new comics (each presenting one). Very effective format, should be tried in France/England/USA as well.
Another discussion. About arty comics.
| Interview with legendary comcis publisher Abi Melzer. As you see, he published Micky Mouse, the Gotfredson collections. Also Little Nemo and Prince Valliant. All devoured by me as a kid. The chap has my eternal gratitude. |
Sergio Aragones signing. He kindly enhanced by portrait of him. What a nice guy.
Manga Madness. Loooads of little girls at a mange dressing up competition.
Thomas Ott, Frankfurt Nov. 2002
Exhibition Thomas Ott at Galerie Streitenfeld, Oberursel.
That's him, with the moody look.
Thomas Ott again, leaning on the table.
F.K.Waechter, Frankfurt Nov. 2002
Exhibition 'F.K.Waechter', one of the very best German cartoonists, indeed anywhere.
(Historisches Museum)
Angouleme 2003
| Paris railway terminal Montparnasse where the trains to Angoulem leave from. |
| Special tent for internantional dealmaking. (I got in as a journalist.) |
| Espace Franquin. (Franquin room). Another special meeting place for journalists and artists. |
| Opening of the Herge memorial, actually the re-naming of a whole street. Herge's widow was there, as was the Queen of Belgium etc, but I could see a thing.- Later on a TV crew filmed me drawing, so I have been on telly. So there. |
| Grand prizegiving ('palmareze'). The big prize for best Album went to Chris Ware (his Jim Corrigan had juts been published, and what can compete against that?). But he wasn't there, too busy working. Good for him of course, still, a bit disappointing. - J.C.Denis got prize for best script, which cheesed him off a bit, because he's a very proud artist as well. |
| Cool exhibition featuring truckloads of old books all over the place (which was a motiv of the exhibited album). |
| Small but interesting expo at the Italian tourist office. They had good food too, but I was too busy with the sketch, and then had to go off with the Platirum mailinglist group. |
| Amazing exhibition by the Ferraille crew. About a make believe robotic cinema/comics star, with fake posters, dolls, comics, films, the lot. Superb. |
| 'New York Tent' aka Fanzine Tent. Where all the fanzines are. Well, most, some snuck into the main tent. Absolutely overwhelming. And wonderful stuff to buy. Unmissable. |
| Bunch of sketches done at 'Le Chat Noir', pub where lots of comics people meet. |
| Another pub, or rather hotel with a large bar, which was still open the Chat Noir close, at 3 in the moring. (yes, insane.). That's Charles Berberian on the left. |
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Here are a number of Mini-publishers who made it into the main tent: Flblb, Atrablie, Büb, Fremok.
They were actually packing up when I made this. |
