COMICA

Nakatanggap ako ng email galing kay Paul Gravett, tinatanong niya ako kung gusto kong pumunta sa London for 5 days para sa 2nd Asia-Europe Comics Festival, sagot nila lahat. Whoaa! Gulat naman ako! Hindi pa ako makapag-decide, para yatang nakakatakot. Well, sa October pa naman. Ang gagawin kasi sa akin ay maging representative ng komiks ng Pilipinas. Parang hindi ko pa yata carry ito, buti sana kung regular comics convention ito na karamihan ng tao ay comics fans, dito kasi ang kaharap mo ay mga academicians, theorists at reporters ng comics industry ng iba't ibang bansa. I-click ang logo sa itaas para sa ilang details tungkol sa COMICA.

Binanggit din ni Paul na bukas ang COMICA sa lahat na gustong makiisa sa event na ito at maging representative. Narito ang ilang details:

Lingua Comica

The 2nd Asia-Europe Comics Project

Phase 1: Asia-Europe Collaboratory (online artistic project, 27 August – 08 October 2007)
Phase 2: Asia-Europe Comics Project, in association with the COMICA festival in London (20-24 October 2007)

The Asia-Europe Comics Projects Series projects on comics and graphic novels started in August 2006 when the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) gathered 12 comic artists and a team of facilitators in Singapore with the primary aim of promoting the discovery of and building of new relationships between Asians and Europeans in this field by relating their common concerns and aspirations through each other’s eyes. The main theme of the gathering was: ‘Migration: Arrival or Departure?’ A publication containing the process and results of this gathering is due to be launched in October 2007.

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