A festival of comic creators, visual storytellers and professionals in the world of comics and graphic storytelling. The festival includes talks and presentations by leading Indian and international practitioners, film screenings and exhibitions. Organised in collaboration with Manic Mongol, Max Mueller Bhavan/Goethe Institut, Pro Helvetia, Alliance Française de Delhi, Embassy of Norway, Austrian Cultural Forum, Cervantes Institute, Embassy of Spain, Embassy of Brazil and Norla and Hochschule Luzern

 

Exhibitions:

of lines and TALES – I & II

Works by Appupen, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Kruttika Susurla, Sekhar Mukherjee, Lika Nuessli, Bettina Egger, Josef Yohannes, Reinhard Kleist, Amruta Patil, Bharath Murthy, Miguel Gallardo, Priya Kuriyan, Priyesh Trivedi, Kokaachi, World Comics, Anpu Varkey, Pierre Thomé, Sarbajit Sen, Harsho Mohan Chattoraj and others 

 

On view 4 to 12 December 2017 at the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza and at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

 

Opening

Superheroes, Mythology and Halahala

Presentation by Appupen (artist’s presentation), India

 

A Journey in Indie-comics making

Presentation by Kokaachi (publisher’s presentation), India

 

Drawn Cinema –I (20 min)

Animation films curated by Sekhar Mukherjee, National Institute of Design

 

FROM 16:45 TO 18:00

Forests of Transformation

Presentation by Amruta Patil (artist’s presentation), France

 

The Urban Legend – Why I Created a Superhero

Presentation by Josef Yohannes (artist’s presentation), Norway

 

Fumetto Festival Lucerne – A Comic Festival Built on Bridges

Presentation by Jana Jakoubek (curator’s presentation), Switzerland

 

AT 18:15 

Launch of The Elephant in the Room – Women Draw their World

An Indo-German anthology (Zubaan: New Delhi, 2017)

Presentations by Urvashi Butalia, Priya Kuriyan, Anpu Varkey and Kaveri Gopalakrishnan

 

Followed by

Panel discussion Is Comics Something You can Teach?

Moderator: Abeer Gupta, Assistant Professor, School of Design, Ambedkar University, Delhi

 

The discussion will look at issues such as the futility of teaching authorship; exercises in sequential thinking; institutionalising underground art into a mainstream convenience – today’s comic education