Vitaly Lazorenko

Bull-dog & Impeatoi

Ziska Riemann

Ziska Riemann (1973, Berlin)
Cartoon artist, film scriptwriter

She started her career as a street-comic-kid in Berlin.
Besides drawing and painting she has written scripts for more than 15 films

Gerhard Seyfried

Gerhard Seyfried (1948, Munich)
Comics artist, cartoonist

In the sixties he was thrown out of the Akademie für das Graphische Gewerbe after two years for organizing a strike in protest of the declaration of a state of emergency. He then worked as a self-employed graphic artist and caricaturist and flourished with his cheeky drawings,

Thierry Bouüaert

Thierry Bouüaert
Comics artist, illustrator
(1964, Brussels, Belgium).

Great grandson of the painter Jef Bouüaert, passionate about many forms of artistic expression, from the plastic arts to music, design and prêt-à-porter.

Konstantin Dubkov

Konstantin Dubkov aka Folco (b.1976, Yekaterinburg)
Comics artist, illustrator, storyboard artist for feature film and advertising, concept artist.

Trained at the I.D. Shadra College of Art in Yekaterinburg and the Ural State Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.

Started to draw comics

Ptiluc

Ptiluc (real name Luc Lefevre) was born in 1956 in Mons in the Walloon region of Belgium. He had hardly begun to read before he was producing his own comics. From the age of seven he began creating and “publishing” his own graphic stories – just one copy of each. However, his decision to become a professional

Tiitu Takalo

Tiitu Takalo (real name Vilya Takalo, b.1976, Tampere)
Artist, scriptwriter, illustrator, publisher.

Staunch feminist and human rights campaigner. In 2010 took part in comics project “Culture Clash: Articles and Comics on Racism, Antiracism and Different Cultures”. One of the most talented female artist of her generation.

Warren Pleece

Warren Pleece (Brightonб 1965)
Comics artist

Warren Pleece has worked in comics for over 20 years, mostly for DC Comics’ Vertigo line, but started by self-publishing the dark, sarcastic magazine

Rob Davis

Rob Davis (1968, Dorset, UK)
Comics writer, artist, illustrator
Has always been a com¬puls¬ive storyteller, he turn every aspect of his life into story, and com¬ics were the way he could make the stor¬ies ‘real’. He started drawing comics when he was 8, at that age he couldn’t make a TV show or a movie, but he could make a comic.

Karrie Fransman

Comic Creator

Born in Edinburgh what I’d like to think was a dark and stormy night way back in ‘81. Now live in London. Went on to study Psychology and Sociology at uni and began writing my first graphic stories after reading Daniel Clowe’s Ghost World

Elke R. Steiner

Elke R. Steiner
Artist, illustrator
(1971 Bremen, lives and works in Berlin)
Studied art and visual communication.
She has published several comic books and exhibited her comics in Germany and abroad

Heehoos

Comics artist and director


The most well-known of the Russian comics artists, Heehoos is the leader of comics art group “Tribe of Dead Fish”, creator of the first Russian comics festival “KomMissiya”

Konstantin Komardin

Comics artist, illustrator, animator
Was born somewhere between Europe and Asia, where the climate of the Ural Mountains

Mawil

Comics artist

(1976, East Berlin)

Drew his first comics aged eight, and at fifteen used a photocopier to produce his first comic book - just before the Berlin Wall came down.

After finishing secondary school he entered the Berlin Weissensee School of Art, where amongst other things he got to know other talented comics

Vika Lomasko

Viktoria Lomasko

(1978, Serpukhov)

Artist, illustrator

Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2003.

Does graphic reportage and collaborates with the media as an artist-journalist. Actively takes part in modern art and alternative

Askold Akishin

Illustrator and comics artist

Born in Moscow in 1965
Studied at the Moscow Art College ‘In Memory of the 1905 Revolution’
Began to publish in 1988
Participated in the work of the Moscow comics studio ‘Kom’

Seyfried & Ziska: Harmonian Anarchists

Seyfried &Ziska: Harmonian Anarchists
A comic icon of the alternative scene, Gerhard Seyfried and his only student Ziska Riemann have been working together for 20 years as Harmonian Anarchists.

Alim Velitov

Alim Velitov (1977, Moscow)
Comic artist, camera operator, animator

Entered this world in 1977, the year Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released

Aleksei Iorsh

Aleksei Iorsh (1963, Moscow)
Comics artist, illustrator

One of the first comics artists in Russia, one of the founders of the comics studio KOM.

Igor Baranko

Igor Baranko (Kiev, 1970)
Comics artist
I was born in Kiev in 1970. At an early age (7 years old) I saw my first comic book,

Roman Sokolov

Roman Sokolov (1976, Obninsk, Russia)
Comics artist , illustrator, animation artist

A magnificent animation artist, creating storyboards for children’s shows, along with animation and title sequences for films (Playing the Victim, dir. Kirill Serebrennikov, 2006)

Erdil Yaşaroğlu

Erdil Yaşaroğlu (1971, Istanbul, Turkey)
Comics artist, cartoonist
Erdil started drawing comics when he was a kid.

Kripa Joshi

Kripa Joshi (1978, Nepal)
Illustrator, comic artist

Originally from Nepal, where she graduated from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India. After graduation, she worked as an Art teacher for schools