NextComic
6th – 8th March 2009
Comics are a part of everyday life. We constantly encounter cartooning in movies and TV commercials; it influences fashion and design, and is a part of young people’s cultural conception of self.This interdisciplinary festival of comics and graphic novels will enable visitors to take a holistic approach to the graphic arts’ “9th artform.”
During 24 hours of live comics from Austria, attendees will be able to spend a whole day looking over the shoulder of Austrian cartoonists and comic artists as they go about their work. A theater adaptation, a cartoon film program and a comic music nightline will be among the featured events focusing on cartooning’s reciprocal relationships with film, electronic media, music and theater. Prior to the festival, the sponsors will be staging a comics competition for both professionals and up-and-coming young artists; an exhibit will showcase the prizewinning works.
The NEXTCOMIC Academy will be offering workshops in which artists from the comics, Manga and caricaturing fields will show how they capture faces using pencil and paper.
NEXTCOMIC will also present new releases from all over the world as well as outstanding work by renowned artists and prizewinners. And there’ll be speeches about the latest currents in the world of comics as well as examples from the history of the graphic novel.
The lin-c Art Association has been working since 2000 on an nationwide site to enable Austrian comic artists to get linked up with international art groups and festivals. lin-c also publishes an annual comics magazine, takes part in presentations in other countries, and stages workshops and comics competitions in schools.
Idea / Concept // Gottfried Gusenbauer
Collaborators // lin_c – Art Association to Foster Comics and Graphic Novels and Linz09
Venues //
Ursulinenhof, Landstraße 31, 4020 Linz, www.ursulinenhof.at
Moviemento und City Kino, Dametzstraße 30, 4020 Linz,
Grand Café zum Rothen Krebsen, Obere Donaulände 11, 4020 Linz, www.roterkrebs.net
MKH Wels, Pollheimerstraße 17, 4600 Wels, www.medienkulturhaus.at
