22. International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź 2011
Program
The 22nd International Festival of Comics and Games will host the winners of the Eisner Award (the most important prize in the comics world): Argentinean artist Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets, Batman, Spider-Man, Chicanos, Vampire Boy) and American writer Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Hellblazer, Batman, Loveless, Banner) and Simon Bisley, British author of famous comics (Lobo, Slaine, Batman, Hulk), illustrator and designer of heavymetal bands’ album covers.
The festival will also host a special guest – Akira Yamaoka from Japan, composer of music for video games and movies, known mainly for his music for Silent Hill (game and movie). Akira Yamaoka will perform at the festival’s gala (Oct 1, 2011) together with the Cool Kids of Death.
There will also be numerous other guests from Poland and abroad. Grzegorz Rosiński will fly straight from Switzerland, Zbigniew ‘Kas’ Kasprzak from Belgium. Kas participated in this year’s City Stories project. The festival’s public will also have a chance to meet Askold Akishin and Mischa Zaslavski – authors of a comics adaptation of the famous novel The Master and Margarita and of course numerous comics artists from Poland.
The program will also feature dedication sessions, workshops for professionals and amateurs, discussions, competitions, live drawing, Miss Comics pageant. Furthermore – the Manga Corner with cosplay and anime movies, the Star Wars zone, computer games zone and kids zone. The festival would not be complete without the Comicsology Symposium (this year is the 11th edition).
Also, the Big Boat of Humour competition will have its finale during the festival. Its goal is to illustrate the famous paradox of Łódź – city whose name means literally ‘a boat’, but which lies nowhere near any river, lake or sea.
PROGRAM
| Time | Event | Location |
| 10 AM | Finale of the comics competition for school kids | room 304 ŁDK |
| 11 AM | Art works hops for children | room 304 ŁDK |
| 12 PM | Animated movie screening for kids | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 5.30 PM | Opening of the expo „Maciej Pałka – 10 years with lunatics” | Mała Litera Art in ms2 (art museum), Manufaktura, Ogrodowa 19 |
| 6.30 PM | Opening of the competition expo | Galeria Stara ŁDK |
| Time | Event | Location |
| 9 AM | Opening of the fair, of the Atlas zone for kids and of the console game zone | Textilimpex, Traugutta 25 |
| 9 AM | Computer games zone | Hotel Centrum, Kilińskiego 59/63 |
| 10.15 AM | 50th birthday of Wojtek Birek | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 11 AM | Under Siege – meeting with Filipe Pina | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 11.45 AM | Master and Margaret – meeting with Askold Akishin and Mischa Zaslavski | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 12.30 PM | Meeting with Marek Szyszko | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 1.30 PM | Lobo vs. Slaine – meeting with Simon Bisley | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 3 PM | Revolutions in suspenders – meeting with Mateusz Skutnik, Jerzy Szyłak and Wojtek Stefaniec | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 4 PM | Bullet from Argentina – meeting with Eduardo Risso | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 5.30 PM | I draw for Disney – meeting with Kari Korhonenem | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 6.15-7 PM | It’s comics time – about the expo. Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, Przemysław Truściński, | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 10.30 AM | Neckless man – meeting with authors | room 221 ŁDK |
| 11 AM | Deus ex Machina – meeting with authors | room 221 ŁDK |
| 11.30 AM | Zeszyty Komiksowe and Matador – news from Centrala | room 221 ŁDK |
| 12 PM | Tajfun is back – meeting with Tadeusz Raczkiewicz and Florian Firlej | room 221 ŁDK |
| 12.45-1.30 PM | Yorgi – new comics by Jerzy Ozga and Dariusz Rzontkowski | room 221 ŁDK |
| 2.30 PM | Comics by VegAnka | room 221 ŁDK |
| 3 PM | From the archives of JerzyWróblewski – lecture | room 221 ŁDK |
| 3.30 PM | Diefenbach – meeting with Benedykt Szneider | room 221 ŁDK |
| 4 PM | The Ziniols – 13th anniversary of the Ziniol magazine | room 221 ŁDK |
| 5 PM | Likwidator – meeting with Ryszard Dąbrowski | Room 221 ŁDK |
| 5.30 | “Czasem” – new comics by Marcin Podolec and Grzegorz Janusz | room 221 ŁDK |
| 6.15-7 PM | Karton – meeting with authors | room 221 ŁDK |
| 10.30 AM | In brightest day, in blackest night – Green Lantern – lecture | room 304 ŁDK |
| 11.30 AM | The Dark Knight Rises: the end is near – lecture | room 304 ŁDK |
| 12.30-1.30 PM | Publishers’ discussion | room 304 ŁDK |
| 3 – 4 PM | Workshops with Ramon Perez | room 304 ŁDK |
| 5.30-7 PM | Workshops with Grzegorzem Rosińskim | room 304 ŁDK |
| 9 AM | Games zone – discussions | room 101 ŁDK |
| 10 AM | Star Wars zone | rooms 308, 313 ŁDK |
| 10 AM | Manga Corner | rooms 6, 102 ŁDK |
| Egmont Zone | room 7 ŁDK | |
| 11 AM | Meeting with the Donald Duck editors | |
| 12 PM | Kari Korhonen – works hops for kids | |
| 1 PM | Meeting with the Star Wars editors | |
| 2.30 PM | Meeting with the Fantasy Komiks editors | |
| 6 PM | SILENCE – multimedia installation and the catalogue of the international competition for mute comics from the Ligatura festival – opening | fabrYSTREFA, Piotrkowska 138/140 |
| 8 PM | The festival’s award Cremony, miss comics pageant, concerts: Kind Off, Akira Yamaoka & Cool Kids Of Death | Wytwórnia, Łąkowa 29 |
| Area 1 | Area 2 | |
| 11.30 AM | W. Birek | „Neckless Man” |
| 12.45 PM | A. Akishin, M. Zaslavski, B. Szneider, R. Dąbrowski | E. Risso, T. Leśniak |
| 2 PM | M. Szyszko, G. Rosiński | M. Skutnik, J. Szyłak, W. Stefaniec |
| 3.15 PM | T. Raczkiewicz, J. Ozga, M. Śledziński | K. Korhonen, “Deus ex machina”, „VegAnka” |
| 4.30 PM | S. Bisley, P. Truściński, K. Gawronkiewicz | G. Janusz, M. Podolec, „Karton” |
| Time | Event | Location |
| 9 AM | Opening of the fair, of the Atlas zone for kids and of the console game zone | Textilimpex, Traugutta 25 W. Birek „Neckless Man” |
| 9 AM | Computer Games Zone | Hotel Centrum, Kilińskiego 59/63 |
| 10.45 AM | Edward Lutczyn framed in balloons | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 11.45 AM | Meeting with Ramon Perez | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 12.30 PM | Comics writer Brian Azzarello | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 1.45 PM | Not only Silent Hill – meeting with Akira Yamaoką | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 3 PM | Not only Thorgal – meeting with Grzegorz Rosiński | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 4 PM | Lem in comics – meeting with Andrzej Klimowski and Danuta Schejbal | Duże Kino ŁDK |
| 10 AM | Maszin and Zsyp – meeting with the zins publishers | room 221 ŁDK |
| 10.30 AM | Kolektyw – meeting with authors | room 221 ŁDK |
| 11 AM | Biocosmosis – summary – meeting with authors | room 221 ŁDK |
| 11.45-12.45 | Discussion on historical comcis | room 221 ŁDK |
| 1.30 PM | Fotostory – meeting with Dominik Szcześniak and Rafał Trejnis | room 221 ŁDK |
| 2.15 PM | Writer from „Relax” – meeting with Ryszard Siwanowicz | room 221 ŁDK |
| 3 PM | Bler vs. Rafał Szłapa | room 221 ŁDK |
| 3.30 PM | From comics to games – meeting with Rafał Gosieniecki | room 221 ŁDK |
| 9 AM | Games Room | room 7 ŁDK |
| 9 AM | Games Zone – discussions | room 101 ŁDK |
| 10 AM | Star Wars Zone | rooms 313, 308 ŁDK |
| 10 AM | Manga Corner | rooms 6, 102 ŁDK |
| 11.30-12.30 | Workshops with Rafał Szłap | room 408 ŁDK |
| 11 AM | 11th Comicsology Symposium | Hotel Centrum, Kilińskiego 59/63, room K-2 |
| Area 1 | Area 2 | |
| 11.45 AM | E. Lutczyn, A. Yamaoka, D. Szcześniak, R. Trejnis | „Maszin”, „Zsyp”, „Kolektyw” |
| 1.00 PM | R. Perez, G.Rosiński | „Biocosmosis”, R. Szłapa, R. Gosieniecki |
| 2.30 PM | B. Azzarello, A. Klimowski, D. Schejbal | M. Skutnik, J. Szyłak, W. Stefaniec |
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