comiXculture II

comiXculture II project will address the lack of public visibility of the culturally and ethnically different groups and the lack of representation of their unique experiences by including these experiences in works of a popular genre – the comix. This way the works created through the project will reflect and communicate the diversified and multicultural character of our contemporary societies to young audiences of the majority populations. The works will avoid simple propaganda messages but would rather be aiming at challenging the inertia of rejecting the otherness, the different, and the unknown.

Outcomes:

  formulate a network of artists from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Lebanon, engaged in socially-relevant comixes;

  series of comix stories, contributing to the social dialogue on diversity, racism and xenophobia, published in journals with mass circulation in the local languages of the participating countries;

Activities:

  first meeting of the participants in Beirut, Lebanon;

  forthcoming second meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria;

  publication of a comix-collection in English, including short comix by both the East European participants on their experiences in Beirut and the Lebanese artists on their impressions of Sofia;

  ongoing production of works by all participants;

  ongoing publications in high-quality mass journals;

The project is made possible thanks to the financial support of Open Society Institute-Budapest