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Is a series of meetings of central European artists with an international jury, which will judge projects of their comics. The idea of those meeting is to promote the most interesting artist from our region. The meeting are short, 10-15-minutes long presentations of ideas for an album, series or a shorter comics form. The presentations may also be a mixed media presentation, a presentation of drafts or finished storyboards or a scenario.
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International Comics Culture FestivalEast Cover Pitchings
east cover PitchingsInternational Comics Culture Festival ligatura
2010, Poznań, Poland© Tranzyt Foundationcentrala Central Europe Comics Art© dtp gabinet.co.ukisbn: 978-83-930146-5-1www.ligatura.euwww.centrala.org.plwww.fundacja-tranzyt.blogspot.comPrint: Sowa-Druk na życzenie,www.sowadruk.pl, +48 22431-81-40
Contents4 • East cover Pitchings5 • The jury of EAST COVER Pitchings International Comics Culture Festival Ligatura 20106 • Catalogue of madmen7 • Cats and Nervolver8 • Dairy of my dreams9 • Electra – theatre comic
10 • In the last penal colony11 • City Game12 • Mikropolis. Terra Incognita13 • Modistilatizzle14 • Ordinaries15 • The Mesiah Project16 • Quasimotions17 • Russian Avantgarde in comics – persons, stories, poems.18 • The Story of Gardens19 • Tower20 • Why do you ask if you know already21 • Windmills
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East cover PitchingsIs a series of meetings of central European artists with an international jury, which will judge projects of their comics.The idea of those meeting is to promote the most interesting artist from our region. The meeting are short, 10-15 minutes long presentations of ideas for an album, series or a shorter comics form. The presentations may also be a mixed media presentation, a presenta-tion of drafts or finished storyboards or a scenario.Artists could apply to east cover Pitchings till January 12th, 2010.Only 16 artists will be chosen among all the applications and invited to take part in the east
cover Pitchings. Will be reimbursed for the costs of travel to Poznań and will have an accommodation during the ligatura the Comic Culture Festival.east cover Pitchings will be held from the 5th till the 6th February, 2010 in the seat of Eight Day Theatre .Entrance only for accredited guests invited by the organizers.The east cover – comics activity catalogue will be available during the ligatura the Comic Culture Festival. There you can find the profiles of all the invited artists. When the festival is finished, all the catalogues will be send out to organizers of comics’ festivals, publishers in Western Europe.
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Szymon HolcmanBorn in 1977. Graduated in Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Always a fan of comic books, they entered his professional life when he became a reviewer
for “Przekrój” weekly. He’s also written on the subject for other magazines and authored a chapter on Polish comic book artists in the acclaimed dictionary of young Polish culture “Tekstylia Bis”. He relinquished the role of a comic book critic
Dr John A. LentDr. John A. Lent has been teaching mass communications at the university/college level since 1960. He has held the title of professor since 1976. In 2000, he was Rogers Distin-guished Professor of Media Studies at the
University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has been guest professor at Shanghai University, professor/advisor of Ph.D. students at the Animation School of the Communication University of China, and visiting professor at Jilin College of the Arts Animation School and Nanjing Financial & Economics University, also in China.His publications include 70 books and monographs he has authored or edited, most dealing with Asian mass communica-tions and the first on Asian broadcasting, newspapers, film, popular culture, cartooning, animation, and media bibliography. He also pioneered in the study of Caribbean mass communications. Dr. Lent has interviewed about 600 cartoonists on every continent, including in 18 Asia-Oceania countries.Dr. Lent is founder and editor of Interna-tional Journal of Comic Art; he also edits Asian Cinema, and chairs the Asian Cinema Studies Society, the Asian Popular Culture Group of the Popular Culture Association, and the Comic Art Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research. He founded the latter two groups.Since 2003, the International Comic Art Festival has sponsored the annual John A. Lent Scholarship Award to honor his services to the field; also, the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group and Berita, both of which he founded in 1975-1976, established a scholarship in his name. He has also received the Lifetime award from amic
in Singapore for his pioneering research on Asian mass communication, and the John
Buscema award for cartooning in Gijon, Spain.He has served on animation and cartoon juries in about 15 countries; in 2007 and 2008, he was on the Pulitzer Prize jury for editorial cartoons.
José AlanizAssociate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington – Seattle,
is the author of “Komiks: Comic Art in Russia” (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). His research interests include Death and Dying, Disability Studies, Cinema, Eco-criticism and Comics Studies. His articles often appear in the International Journal of Comic Art.
David SchilterDavid Schilter is a Swiss law graduate living and working in Latvia, the land that sings. Together with Zane Zajanckauska and other locals he founded the first Latvian comics magazine “kuš!” in
2007. Since then he is regularly organising comics workshops and exhibitions in and around Latvia and as long as they don’t change their official slogan to “the land that draws” he will keep working on it.
to become a comic book publisher. For the last 5 years he’s worked at Kultura Gniewu publishing house , which brings works by Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, Thomas Ott and many other foreign and local authors to Polish readers.
Witold TkaczykComics critic, mem-ber of jury of The International Comics Festival Competition in Łódź, form 1993 to 2004 the editor and chief redactor of AQQ Comics Magazine, today
the founder and owner of Zin Zin Press - publishing house dedicated to comics, mostly historical. Lives and works in Poznań.
Joachim DvořákCzech editor and director of komiks-fest! Prague
The jury of EAST COVER Pitchings International Comics Culture Festival Ligatura 2010:
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Catalogue of madmenTomasz Mering, Tomasz Szatkowski, Tomasz Sitek, Nikodem Skrodzki, Paweł NogaTomasz Meringul. Leśna 1584-200 WejherowoPoland+48 694 834 [email protected]
“Catalogue of madmen” is the project of an anthology of four comic stories, which are alternative worlds histories. There was a lot of madmen in the history. These stories
tells about some of them. Have you ever wondered what really was under the deck of the “Schleswig-Holstein”? “The Visit” is an another version of the visit of this Ger-man warship in Gdansk before The Second World War. “Job” tells about an alterna-tive life of Adolf Hitler, where his “Mein Kampf” was never published. “Catalogue of madmen – case of Han S.” is a different history of an attack on wtc in New York.
“Lightings in the snow” tells about young inventor, who escapes from Moscow and takes refuge in a town in the northern parts of Russia. In the town where most of its habitants are miners, he finds his way of helping people using his knowledge and inventions. He discovers the history and se-
crets of this place and its people. He makes breakthroughs in his scientific research, but he is unable to share it with no one else except the people from the village. After a few years officials from Bolshevist Russia
comes there. The two worlds sepa-
rated by ice desert and technological gap are go-ing to collide.
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Cats and NervolverTomasz NiewiadomskiTomasz [email protected]/ratmantvTomasz Niewiadomski and his European cats are working on comic book about cat’s dreams.The main hero cat is Misio. His sister Pysia and Myszka are assisting him.Misio wants to conquest space,meet
interesting persons ,visit different places of our galactic.He already met Leonardo Da Vinci,Isaac Newton and Sherlock Holmes.He has been on Mars.
Other project is second book of adven-tures of Ner-volver, crazy hero-which is living in the strange world cre-
ated after explosion of atom-ic micro-
wave oven.
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Dairy of my dreamsMikołaj TkaczMikołaj Tkacz+48 601 535 949www.tkachoz.deviantart.com
Comics sto-ries based on my dreams.
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Electra – theatre comicIvanka ApostolovaIvanka Apostolovawww.ivankaapostolova.com;Facebook: Apostolova IvankaElectra by Evripides, ancient drama as comic. Comic interpretation and adaptation of the ancient family tragedy and Electra complex. Sister and brother kills their mother, who killed their father Agamemnon and after wards she find a lover. Sent the children away making free space for her new
life as queen with yang lover. Hu-man figures presented as Kontrapost/s.
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In the last penal colonyKarol Konwerski, Mateusz SkutnikKarol [email protected]+48 512 043 803www.pastelgames.com
“In the penal colony” is the first of three short comic stories set to expand the main focus of Franz Kafka’s works
– a talmudic or even cabalistic topos/ar-chetype book and law guiding human life. The authors intent is not to adapt Kafka’s works but to create a complex continuation based on what Kafka wrote.
The authors want to show the “Kafka’s situation” in a world cre-ated by Ma-teusz Skutnik as a continu-ation of the
“Revolution” comics..
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City gamesTomek KalitkoTomek [email protected]+48 505 66 41 66A graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. A degree with hon-ours. At present an assistant at a painting studio of the Academy. I deal with painting and comics. I wrote and illustrated the comic book Pan Karol. I want to broaden the limits of comics and the narrative range of painting and draw Urban Comics whose boards appear in various parts of town, read randomly except the beginning and ending. The whole is attached with a map showing the sites with the boards. It is only one of the ideas for comics or search and broadening of the narrative space in painting. As a painter I am interested in the time of an event, space, colour, expression; this is the source of experiments on the form of painting. Combining different kinds of
artistic activity is very refreshing and lively; I think it is of benefit to both painting and comics, if such division is needed. A large format enables me to convey the meaning differently and one frame of canvas makes me approach painting form very responsibly. What is of the highest interest to me in the combination of fields is a possibility of fuller
expression – a chance of describ-ing the real-ity around me better and more precisely.
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Mikropolis. Terra IncognitaKrzysztof Gawronkiewicz and Dennis WojdaKrzysztof Gawronkiewiczgawronkiewicz.carbonmade.commiasteczkomikropolis.blogspot.com
“Mikropolis – Terra Incognita”This is the story of Murnau, the oldest citizen of Mikropolis. M. has never travelled abroad and he regrets this now in the autumn of his life. To M’s great surprise he receives a letter from his childhood hero – the courageous Captain – encouraging M. to go and seek his life’s last great adventure.M. takes of in his washing machine (in fact an interdimensional traveling device). He runs
out of washing powder and crashlands in the Unknown, an impenetrable wasteland surrounding Mikropolis, inhabited by the Wolfs of the Subconscious and the cruel Cyclopes.M. is saved from dying of thirst by a flock of wild chairs. Joy ends when the Cyclopes capture them. M. escapes but saves the chairs. After many adventures M. finds his goal – an all seeing Oracle. It shows him a long lost memory: as a boy M. used to play with his fathers terrestrial globe and dream of exotic places and future expeditions. His dreams came to an end after smashing the globe into pieces. M. then made a choice in his heart to never travel.M. is now cured and decides to return home, but leaving the Unknown is more difficult than getting there. The Wolfs attack him but
he is saved by a savage woman. Af-ter spending a romantic night togeth-er the wom-an shows M. the long way back home.
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ModistilatizzleBartosz Sztybor, Maciej PałkaBartosz [email protected],Bartosz Sztybor – kropkazent.digart.plMaciej Pałka – maciejportfolio.blogspot.com
“Modistilatizzle” is an oneiric story, that unfolds in an imaginary world, which is a re-flection and a metaphor for our times. The main characters of the story are three men
– Bugda, Albin Ilach and Jarema Chrestomat – who are surrogates of three most famous re-ligious characters (Buddha, Allach and Jesus
Christ). They must find themself in this incom-prehensible world, in which des-potic and never seen Modistila-tizzle holds the reins.
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OrdinariesTomasz Kontny, Joanna Karpowicz, Paweł PiechnikPaweł Piechnik+48 506 050 458littleninjapp@gmail.comwww.kontny.org.plwww.j-karpowicz.blogspot.comwww.pawelpiechnik.comTomasz Kontny, still in his twenties, lives in Katowice. Part scriptwriter, part journalist. Gave life to 2 theatrical plays: “Maszynopis” (Typescript) and “Bierzcie i jedzcie” (Take and eat). Co-author and publisher of
“Opowieści tramwajowe” (Cable car tales) — anthology of public transport comic books. Comic books to his scripts were published in the following anthologies: “W sąsiednich kadrach” (Neighbouring frames), “Powstanie
‘44” (Rising ‘33), “Copyright” and elsewhere in: Wysokie Obcasy, Chichot, Anglorama, Jeju and Maszin.Joanna Karpowicz, born in 1976, Krakow (Poland). Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts
in Krakow.Professionally occupied with comic books, illustrating and graphics.Paweł Piechnik, born in 1981, Poznań (Poland). Graduated from the Faculty of ArchitectureArchitecture obtaining a Master’s degree at the Poznań University of Technology in 2005. In the years 2004-2005 he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Since
2005 he has been professionally occupied with comic books, illustrating and graphics. Currently he lives in Poznań in Poland.ABSTRACT: Story of a contemporary couple in their thirties who struggle with unhappy love and their parting. In an ironic and emotional way they tell stories of their disappearing relationships and then try to start lives anew. The reason for their meeting is the Guidebook — half-magical, half-real book of ‘best behaviours’ in relationships and love. ALBUM: Comicbook consists of 3 episodes. Two of them are stories of break-up told from the perspective of a man and a woman — young people who did not succeed in love. Their views on modern honesty is mixed with visions of them trying to cope with their
problems. Their imagination supplies them with associations and metaphors of 20th century pop-culture: movies (Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Scream, Godfather, Grease), writers (F. Kafka, E. Hemingway, Philip K. Dick), characters from literature and historical events.The third episode is a story based on the idea of magical realism. In this episode plots of both characters meet by means of the
Guidebook filled with the knowledge of whole generations of women. In the end there is a suggestion of good finale for both characters, but no banal happy end.
‘Ordinaries’ is for people in their twenties and thirties: modern romanticists, bored with infantile love-stories who feel good in the world of pop-cultural associations.
Each episode consists of 24 pages.
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The Mesiah ProjectPetr NovákPetr Nová[email protected],+42 732 167 778www.ticho762.comSomeone says that the reality is just one, dimensions are only three or maybe four.
Someone else says we have infinite variety of dimensions. I don’t know who’s right. But I think that the notion of things which we can see or touch could be everything.A story from the world of comics where evil machines have neverendless power and control the whole comics production. A new superhero has raised with only one reason – to destroy this comics world… but something went wrong.
The dream might be the reality.
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“Quasimotions”
Agnieszka PiksaAgnieszka Piksa+48 602 81 49 22www.agapixa.blogspot.comHow to focus the comics-readers percep-tion on the source of story-art? It is not any illustration- cyckle. Its arranging the field for imagination: what is between two pictures? The time is not going always on straight line! The “proper” movie is occupating the whole space of vievers brain. After we think, we are not able to read and follow pictures at one time. But here is not a speedness competition. Its just staying on crossroad-ing, unsolutioned ways of word and image.Every common detail can give the reason for
“quasimovie”, with opened eyes, we doesnt need to live surrounded by hugh actions. Looking for inspiration and dialog is basic; but it is easy to forgot the hidden, unspectacular values, and how necesery is the empty-time celebration.Different size of works can be hard for print-ing. Maybe the “leporello” model, one-line
composition is an idea. Serie of longpapers- “longplays”. Also translation, is the strong exercise. Some texts (like in local taste, social groups dialects) I dont really know how to show in other language. And why black and white? I know I can ask somebody
for colors. But I pre-fer to let things to be pure.
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“Russian Avantgarde in comics” – persons, stories, poems.Vladimir Palibrk, Guido Van HengelGuido Van [email protected]+31 616 681 688Vladimir [email protected]+38 1 621 621 673www.strip-it.orgwww.myspace.com/elektrikapancevo
“Russian Avantgarde in comics“ anthology came as an idea of uniting two equally vi-brant and alive worlds – contemporary alter-native comics and the legacy of russian avant-garde literature from begining of XX century. We believe that these two worlds are corre-sponding quite good, considering their lucid, humorous, critic, sometimes absurd and grotesque approach to representing reality. We are searching for 10-20 authors from all over the planet who would be willing to cooperate with us and create 5-10 pages sto-ries after the texts we have chosen, from the earliest ancestors of avantgarde to it’s most vibrant contemporary echoes. Through this concept, we tend to connect the literature theory experts (as our consultants) and
wider comics art audience, creating a book which is both informative and can stand for itself with its distinctive content and
personality. It is to be published in three coun-tries in three languages – Serbia,Holland, Russia.
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The Story of GardensKuba WoynarowskiKuba Woynarowski+48 509 575 [email protected] s tory takes place simultaneously in two different spaces (the both probably belong
to the same person) – a flat in a block of flats and the abandoned allotment garden becoming a wildlife sanctuary. An idea is inspired by XVIIth century still life paintings, in which the state of ‘death’ reveals also to be a kind of ‘silent life’. In ‘The Story of Gar-dens’ – a mute graphic novel – we can see no human characters, but it’s uncertain if it’s absence of single man or mankind in general. This uninhabited world, frozen in the 80’s,
reminds us of Pripyat, abandoned city in the zone of alienation, established after the Chernobyl distaster; the red colour of plants (supplementing black&white drawings) is similar to the Red Forest, which turned gin-ger brown as a result of the radiation. The only inhabitants of this area – overgrown with plants (in which we can observe subtle
physical abnormalities) – seem to be multi-ple insects, appearing in the garden, but also in the flat, ac-celerating the process of human world’s de-construction.
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TowerJanek KozaJanek Kozawww.fungun.republika.pl
“Tower” is a story about everyday life in a big cor-poration.
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Why do you ask if you know alreadyKarol Konwerski, Andrzej SalawaKarol [email protected]+48 512 043 803
“Why do you ask if you know already” is the first of several comic stories about a small part of the gypsy minority living in Nowa Huta (one of several Krakow districts known as one of the perfect workers city in the socialistic times).The gypsies living there are pointed out as a seperate nationality following only their own rules that neither the communist nor the present government can change.
The gypsies with their own culture and language also created their own criminal or-
ganization whitch rules and accting ways didn’t change for fifty years.
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WindmillsAgata NawrotAgata [email protected]+48 504 430 771agatanawrot.daportfolio.com/It was just a dream. Only what you can feel is real. Decisions and intentions matter. These statements are questioned in this contemporary legend about an old windmill standing on a hill in Budapest. It influ-ences the fate of a Polish immigrant, causing strange events. Creatures resembling Hun-garian grey cattle, puli dogs or mangalica pigs, appear in the girl’s dreams and then material-ize. She dreams that the landlord’s girlfriend that seems to be eternally pregnant, bears broken things from the flat. They are fixed when she wakes up. The border between reality and dreams gradually fades, she’s not sure what’s true anymore and doesn’t feel the consequences of her own actions. With shorter days of autumn, she gets more sad and alienated, but most of all irritated by her troublesome landlord. She folds her anger into origami fish every day. One day she lets their angry stream out, washing him off to Danube. When she regains her sense of real-ity, his body is found in the river. She tries to confront her guilt by speeding up time thanks to a cat building with 12-eyed clock.
It only makes it worse, so she throws herself from the wind-mill, replac-ing the soul of a former
suicide.
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International Comics Culture FestivalEast Cover PitchingsInternational Comics Culture FestivalEast Cover Pitchings
ISBN: 978-83-930146-5-1-4ISBN: 978-83-930146-5-1-4
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