2 • AGATA DĘBICKA

3 • MIKOŁAJ RATKA, JAKUB SYTY

4 • MARCIN PONOMAREW

5 • DIMITAR ZAPRYANOV

6 • RENATA GĄSIOROWSKA

7 • AGATA ŁAGUNIAK

8 • KAMIL TATARA

9 • NELE BROENNER

10 • JEROEN FUNKE

11 • FILIP BĄK

12 • HELENA KLAKOCAR

13 • BARTOSZ ŻOŁYŃSKI

14 • BORIS STANIC

15 • OLEG TISCHENKOV

16 • JAY WRIGHT

17 • OLIWIA ZIĘBINSKA

18 • TOMASZ KLESZCZ

19 • JURY

POSTAL ADDRESS:os. Górali 3/37 31 -959 KrakówPHONE:+48 502 181 920E -MAIL:ag.debicka@gmail.comWEB:www.agde.blox.pl

Software = Soul The title of the project speaks for itself. We live in a binary reality, com-municating with each other through Skype and showing -off our moods on Facebook. The project consists of a series of images meandering around various topics of our semi -real and semi -virtual lives. After premiering on the Internet (where else?), on the sites www.agde.blox.pl and www.facebook.com/piksele the cycle was presented at a collective exhibition “Letni Nieletni” in Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, June 2010.

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AGA T

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POSTAL ADDRESS:ul. Sztabu Powstańczego 4/2 44 -100 GliwicePHONE:+48 500017445E -MAIL:mikolaj.ratka@wp.plWEB:http://illustrationnow.net/index.php/2011/03/16/mikolaj -ratka/

“Perpetuum mobile” is a project of mostly silent comic short stories made by Jakub Syty and Mikołaj Ratka. It brings together a variety of thoughts about men and wom-en relationships — sometimes sorrowful, sometimes funny, but always presented from unusual and surprising point of view. Besides love stories, it also gathers shorts inspired by everyday life, comics as well moving as peculiar and astonishing.

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MIKOŁAJ RATKAJAKUB SYTY

POSTAL ADDRESS:ul Sandomierska 33/23 02 -567 WarszawaPHONE:+48 724 364 175E -MAIL:mponomarew@wp.plWEB:http://ma4ker.blogspot.com/

Even as a author it’s diffi cult to me defi ne the story.

It’s road trip comics, tell about journey in to psyche main character…

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MARCIN PONOMAREW

POSTAL ADDRESS:Bulgaria, Sofi a 1303, Zona -B -5, bl.10 -B, app.120PHONE:+359 888 441 006E -MAIL:tirexbg@gmail.comWEB:http://www.facebook.com/pag-es/Тракомикс -THRACOMics-

-българският -комикс -the -Bulgarian--comics/143863408985531

Historical comics

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DIMITARZAPRYANOV

POSTAL ADDRESS:ul. Za Skłonem 6c/13 30 -240 KrakówPHONE:+48 504294515E -MAIL:frfcle@gmail.comWEB:www.farfocle.deviantart.com

Album (I don’t know how many pages yet) All drawings will be black and white.

The story takes place on a dangerous planet — it’s omnivorous, you can’t walk on the surface, all objects are built on pillars.

The planet is inhabited among oth-ers by a colony of humans and other aliens. The colony is situated close to a not very friendly disposed Gecko’s Country and other small states.

The action focuses on the adven-tures of a band of four young people who found a very unusual way to make money. Each member of the gang has his own interesting his-tory and a distinct personality.

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RENA TA GĄSIOR OWSKA

Title: Justa a GirlThis is story about three teenage friends — Natalia who’s drummer in all -girls band, Beata who wants to be a movie director, and Maja who dream is to become a doctor. Story concentrates on their day -to -day life. Beside typical slice -of -life teenage story issues like relationships, patring between lovers, school -life, self -discovery, there are more serious points like mental ill-ness, emotional breakdowns, coming out.

POSTAL ADDRESS:ul. Bugaj 64 95 -200 PabianicePHONE:+48 513 730 410E -MAIL:agata_laguniak@wp.plWEB:http://laguniak.wordpress.com/

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AGATA ŁAGUNIAK

POSTAL ADDRESS:60 -744 Poznań Limanowskiego 15b m34PHONE:+48 606814120E -MAIL:tatarakamil@gmail.comWEB:http://www.cakeshop.pl/

Golden Boy — “Alpha” is the fi rst of the three parts of the story of the Golden boy, who comes to Earth from a distant galaxy. His adventure begins when he is discovered by the good old witch Yamamba. She decides to pick him up and bring the functionality of his mechani-cal body encased in a protective suit. Shows him the vision of Earth before it plunged into chaos and repression, managed by the evil demons known as Akumas. After a series of events Gboy decides to confront the danger, embarks on a journey, and meet his fi rst friend…

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KAMIL TATARA

POSTAL ADDRESS:Winsstrasse 62, 10405 BerlinPHONE:+49 30 44 048 317E -MAIL:nelebroenner@gmail.comWEBwww.4wires.net.

The project WIRES* is a collaboration of three comic artists: Nele Brönner from Germany, Faezal Muniran from Malaysia, and PieR Gajewski from France.

Nele has been choosen to present her and our work as the one who lives the closes by the festival. But if there is the opportunity for PieR and Faezal to join your festival too, they love to come.

Using cables and wires as metaphors, the comic shows the tight connections in the global network between the production chain and the worldwide trade. Everything is connected and infl uences everything. The artwork talks of hidden conjunctions and possibilities of acting together but also about how far from each other we are at the same time.

We develop and produce three tightly connected short story’s and self published the black/white comic in 2010.

The comics and an accompanying sketchbook are released in a box to kept the order of the three story’s up to the reader or chance.

To work on the project WIRES* across Continent’s, cultural differences and lin-guistic problems we used the public blog.

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NELE BROENNER

POSTAL ADDRESS:Regentesselaan 339 2562ED Den Haag the NetherlandsPHONE:+31 620 985 926E -MAIL:jeroen@lamelos.nlWEB:http://www.lamelos.nl

I’ve been making short comic stories, anywhere from 1 to 24 pages, about my two favourite characters Victor & Vishnu for almost ten years now. So, I thought it was time to make a nice big fat book that collects the best of those comics. My fi rst solo book (I am in a dutch comic collec-tive called Lamelos) was a collection of 24 hour Comics Day comics. But this one should be totally different. It should be grand and beautiful and somewhere near 180 pages! It still needs a lot of work. Not just rescaning and colouring, but also painting a sort of fragmented cover for it on wooden panels that fi t together. And it would be nice to somehow have Victor & Vishnu kind of lead you through the book. So they can give commentary on the work, but also make the book more of a whole, rather than just a collection of comics.

And then I also want to make a comic for it on my sewing machine. (Or maybe fragmented sewn cover parts instead of the wooden panels)

But these things all take a lot of time of course. It’ll probably take me about half a year, or much longer, depending on the other work I would have to do.

This is why I want to enter this competi-tion.

I’ve enclosed some of the comics about Victor & Vishnu and a sewn cover I did for our last Lamelos comicbook.

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JERO EN FUNKE

POSTAL ADDRESS:Osiedle Bolesława Śmiałego 31/16 60 -682 PoznańPHONE:+48 516 427 780E -MAIL:fi lip.bak@afera.com.pl

The Adventures of Parampam are unu-sual and philosophical stories, described by many as “the poetry of comics”. Sometimes they end with a funny punch line, sometimes they are an observation of some phenomenon, but their common feature is the interpretation of Time. Time is a diffi cult term to defi ne in a few words. Every scene is an attempt to interpret only a single aspect of it.

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FILIP BĄK

POSTAL ADDRESS:Gerard van Nuenenstraat 7, 5046PV Tilburg, NLPHONE:+13 45 56 691E -MAIL:helenaklakocar@live.nlWEB:http://www.helenaklakocar.com/fwp.html

F.W.P. project (work in process) 600 pages, colour, black white, photo -comic etc…

Method of work: community art, work with other artists, workshops and partici-pative performances.

Final product: periodical paper edition (3 years), books (3) etc.

Side activities: exhibitions, workshops, critical discussions It is “speculative fi c-tion”.

F.W.P. means First World Peace (not defi -nite title).It is a story about 3 strangers coming from the Balkans and living in Holland.

They want to change the way how political tensions are solved in the today’s world.

They develop an idea that the rules of virtual games should be used in reality. The real “war” should become just one big “shooting game”. Nobody would die and there would be a lot of media interest. Those “war -games” would be very good for the economy: selling the rights for live -reports of battles, tourist industry etc. Countries would compete for those games as they do today for the Olympic Games.

Their idea is so crazy that nobody takes it seriously. They make many mistakes in the attempt to promote it. In the moment of despair they receive some help from stu-dents of local university. Together, they start a political party which becomes very popular all over EU and the rest of the world. The story is based on some real events in the recent history of Holland. The goal of the story is: In an interesting and playful way to deal with subjects such as: freedom of speech, political campaigns, true and false intentions, help to the third world, tensions in the society, demo-cratic “tools”’ to be useful for the benefi t of all. In the world, created by the main characters of this story, are no more refugees, no children soldiers and orphans, no charity.

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HELE

N A K

LAKO

CAR

POSTAL ADDRESS:33 -100 Tarnów ul. Długa 27/16PHONE:+48 662 746 796E -MAIL:bagozonde@gmail.com

Vis Vires Circus (40 boards in b&w ink) talks about the signifi cance of human life and its meaning within social structures. The suffering, melancholy and grotesque all combine to create a tragicomedy with a deeper message. In the surreal world of the story there is no space that is, or could be, shared by the lowest class and the elite. Through the eyes of the main heroine we can see the total madness and absurd-ity of such a system. a system that must, ultimately, end in disaster.

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BARTOSZŻOŁYŃSKI

POSTAL ADDRESS:Ruzina 5, 26000 Pancevo, SerbiaPHONE:+381 646 163 199E -MAIL:boris.stanich@gmail.comWEB:http://borisstanic.blogspot.com/

Graphic novel “Radosav” is a story about my grandfather and his young manhood in the years after WWII. It has 64 pages divided into 9 chapters. It is drawn with ink and watercolours. Style is expressive, and it is a mixture of humour, grotesque and reality. It tells a story about strife and dif-fi cult life which young people had to face in postwar Yugoslavia.

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BORIS STANIC

POSTAL ADDRESS:302 -175 Shaughnessy blvd., Toronto, ON, M2J1K1, CanadaPHONE:+1 41 68 545 679E -MAIL:oleg@catoro.caWEB:http://olegti.com/

This book — a collection of simple and amazing pieces from the life of the author. Of course, each experienced a similar situ-ation, but I see a lot of romance and poetry in this simplicity.

Specifi c of this book is that the sheets with the stories do not have any regular order. According to this each time you can read the same story in a different order and see it as a different meaning.

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OLEG TISCHENKOV

POSTAL ADDRESS:3 Old Ashley Hill, Montpellier, Bristol, UK, BS6 5JBPHONE:+44 79 58 126 391E -MAIL:jameswright321@hotmail.com WEB:www.jaywrightillustration.com

My graphic novel serves as homage to the late Bullfi ghter Juan Belmonte. Despite his shy and insecure personality Belmonte was an accomplished and rambunctious man. He overcame the disability of de-formed legs to create superior technique as a bullfi ghter. After years of Injuries, wine, cigars and countless affairs with women a doctor advised him to give it all up, Juan decided he would rather die. He took one last ride around his ranch on his horse, then shot himself in the head.

This is a tale that depicts the fi rst week of Juan’s retirement, in the absence of his suicide.

This is my fi rst graphic novel which was initially inspired by a 5 month period of liv-ing in Berlin, but also my grandparents.

The book is 56 pages long.

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JAY WRIGHT

POSTAL ADDRESS:Czeslawa 54/5 71 -504 SzczecinPHONE:+48 500 451 550E -MAIL:oli.pierdoli@gmail.com

These are fi rst 8 pages of my comic. The total amount of pages is around 86.

It’s a story of one day of life of one un-lucky guy called Buddy who, just like most of us, is desesparetely looking for love.

The comic is almost mute, black and white, square shape pages.

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OLIWIAZIĘBINSKA

POSTAL ADDRESS:os. pod Skarpą 18/14, 34 -100 WadowicePHONE:+48 888 072 551E -MAIL:toomaszkleszcz@gmail.comWEB:http://tomekkleszcz.blogspot.com/

Comic tells the story of the struggle between the Sumerian god Marduk and his younger brother named Ningiszzida. Marduk after thousands of years of im-prisonment returned to Earth and he’s go-ing to control the world by using an ancient war machine. To stop him, Ningiszzida has to run fi nal weapon, it can only be done with people’s help: Dux and Natasha.

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TOMASZKLESZCZ

JURY

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 fi rst 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 offi cial slogan to “the land that draws” he will keep working on it.

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DMITRY YAKOVLEV Was born in 1981 in Kirishi, a small town near Saint -Petersburg (Russia).He has been interested in comic art since 2003. The fi rst comic exhibition he organized was held in 2005 in Saint -Petersburg and presented the comic art of local artists (including himself). In 2007, he and his friends organized Boomfest, an international comic festival which focused on promoting artistic and literary comics. The programme included exhibitions of Moomin, Osamu Tezuka, David B, Dino Buzzati, Gary Baseman, Joe Sacco, Keiji Nakazawa, Emanuel Guibert, Lorenzo Mattotti, Katja Tukiainen and several Russian artists.

The festival takes place annually in Septem-ber, and includes group exhibitions (open until mid -October) presenting the works of contem-porary comic artists as well as a competitions for young artists. The educational programme is always scheduled for the last weekend of September (in 2011 it will be 23rd — 25th September). Since its foundation in 2008, the festival’s publishing house has issued around 20 comic books. At present, we are workin on a translation of David B.’s comic “Epileptic”.

Along with the festival, several Russian comic art exhibitions have been organized out-side Russia: in Angouleme and Bastia (France), Helsinki and Turku (Finland).

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IVANA ARMANINIComics author, illustrator, designer and photographer. Graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2005. “AGM” (Croatian editorial brend) published my comic book “Gloria Scott’s Adventures”, based on short stories by Mima Simić. I’m the founder and coordi-nator of Komikaze ( www.komikaze.hr), starting 2002. The primary idea of the project is a regional and international net-work of comic authors that involves inter-net and print publishing, comic -workshops and multimedia happenings. During last 10 years i lead and participate in more than 50 comix and street workshops and organ-ized around 130 exhibitions in coordination with lots of NGO associations.

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BARTEK JELONEKIs the Manager of International Rights Sales at DC Comics, the oldest and largest English -language comic book publisher in the world. Between its three imprints: DC Universe, Vertigo and MAD, DC Comics pub-lishes 80 titles a month, from adventures of world -famous super heroes: Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and many more, through fantasy, horror, crime, alternative and literary material etc. to satire. Bartek is managing DC Comics publishing part-nerships worldwide, with a primary focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

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PAUL GRAVETTEddie Campbell nicknamed him “The Man at the Crossroads” and The Times of London acknowledged him as “the great-est historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country.” A lecturer, broadcaster and exhibition curator spe-cialising in international comic art, Paul Gravett co -founded the infl uential British comics magazine “Escape” (1983 — 9) with Peter Stanbury, directed the Cartoon Art

Trust (1992 — 2001) and since 2003 has or-ganised Comica, the London International Comics Festival. www.comicafestival.com He writes for the Times, Guardian, Independent, TLS, Art Review, Dazed & Confused and others and is the author of “Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics” (2004) and “Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life” (2005), co -author with Peter Stanbury of “Great British Comics” (2006) and “Incredibly Strange Comics” (2008) and editor of “The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics” (2008). This year he and Peter Stanbury are reviving their publishing house Escape Books — www.escape -books.com — and Paul is editing

“1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die”, a chronology -cum -canon guidebook to the world’s fi nest comics. Visit him at www.paulgravett.com

IVAN MECL(White Space Confl ict)

www.divus.czwww.umelec.orgwww.easternalliance.org

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