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For its
3rd edition, the
Alliance Française
Dublin's
Comic Book Festival is partnering again with
the
Belgian Comic Strip
Centre, the
Comics Lab
and
Illustrators Ireland. Join us
for this exciting opportunity to discover
new voices and learn from leading
professionals in Ireland, France and Belgium
through a series of events on two days: live
reading performances, talk, exhibition,
signings and a book fair! |
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Wednesday 8 March, 6.30pm |
Thursday 9 March, 6.30pm |
Live
Readings |
Exhibition Launch |
Pop
Up Comics Fair |
Meet
Max de Radiguès |
Alliance
Française (The
French Library)
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance
Française (La Cocotte)
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Illustrators Ireland
and
The Comics Lab
brings together
the most promising indie comics makers from
throughout
the island of Ireland to perform live readings
of their short comics. The experience is a fully
immersive story telling
event that combines music, sound design,
projected
illustration and live performance in what feels
like a
cross between theatre and animation.
Featuring: Sarah Bowie, Eoin Coveney, Alan
Dunne, Katherine Foyle, Debbie Jenkinson, Paddy
Lynch, Elida Maiques, Stephen Maurice Graham,
Ale Mercado, David McClelland, Fintan Taite
ADMISSION FREE
Booking
essential |
Come and join us on a very special evening for
the
opening of the Highlights of the Belgian
Comic Strip
put together by the
Belgian Comic Strip
Centre.
At this occasion, we are
honoured to welcome Belgian
illustrator and author Max de Radiguès, whose works
will be part of the show.
After introducing the project,
Deputy Director
of
the
Belgian Comic Strip
Centre
Tine Anthony
will
give the floor to Max de Radiguès, who will
present his
work and participate in a Q&A with
the public.
ADMISSION FREE
Booking
essential |
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Sarah Bowie
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Founding
member of The Comics Lab, Sarah is a freelance
illustrator and cartoonist, originally from
Dublin, recently returned from a residency in La
Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, a centre of
excellence for comics in France. |
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Eoin
Coveney
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Co-creator
of The Alienist, an original series for
2000AD, for which he has been contributing
(drawing Judge Dredd among others), Eoin has
also worked for many international publishers,
such as Harper-Collins, Dorling-Kindersley,
Usbourne, Pearson and Oxford University Press. |
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Alan Dunne
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Illustrator based in Dublin, Alan creates comics
that deal with the universality of the human
experience, social observation, interesting
set-ups and atmospheric scene setting. Alongside
illustration, he also works as a motion designer
for RTÉ and was shortlisted for the Jonathan
Cape / Comica / Observer Graphic Short
competition twice; in 2014 for his graphic short
comic piece Collage and again in 2016 for his
short comic Folly. |
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Stephen Maurice
Graham
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Stephen is an illustrator and comic artist from
Belfast. He currently writes a weekly comic for
Vice.com about the exploits of a man-child named
Michael. |
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Katherine Foyle
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Katherine
Foyle is a TV and video editor based in Dublin,
who is passionate about telling small stories
well in every medium she can. Like her
creations, she is a work-in-progress. |
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Debbie Jenkinson
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Co-founder
of the Comics Lab, Debbie’s comics explore the
triumphs and frustrations of ordinary life,
failed romances, overfed cats and the inner
lives of office workers feature again and again. |
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Paddy Lynch
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Founding
member of the Comics Lab, Paddy is a cartoonist,
educator and graphic designer whose work
embraces and explores the complicated and often
contradictory experiences that make us tick and
reveal who we truly are. |
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Elida Maiques
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Elida is a
visual artist with a strong line in comics. She
is originally from Spain, based in Dublin since
2003. Several of Elida’s comics are bilingually
functional, with separate hand-lettered text in
both English and Spanish. Her comics work is
often small-run limited edition comics and
handmade books. Her main vehicle for these is
Slow, a series of fold-out mini-comics
containing assorted shorter strips, however her
work also appears in Polen magazine, the
publications of Plutón CC, RíRá,
etc. Something she loves: teaching Visual
Storytelling in Marino College. |
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Alé
Mercado
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Alé draws
stories in rural Ireland. He used to do that in
cities, but that is a distant memory now. He is
surrounded by cattle that do not appreciate his
skills; but that never stopped him. When he is
not drawing, he likes to talk of himself in
third person to the cows. |
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David McLelland
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David (working as David Creative) is an
illustrator and designer who lives and works in
Belfast. As an artist, he creates his own
musical compositions which he then uses as a
source narrative to create visual short stories. |
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Max de
Radiguès
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Max de
Radiguès is a comic book author and editor at
L’employé du Moi. He writes and draws for
young people and adults. His book Moose
was selected for the Eisner Awards 2016. In
2009, he was invited to a one-year residency at
the prestigious Center for Cartoon Studies in
White River Junction, Vermont. He recounted his
experiences during his year of residence in his
book Pendant ce temps à White River Junction
published by Six Pieds sous Terre, which was
part of the official selection of the 2012
Angoulême International Comics Festival. Some of
his projects, such as L’âge dur and
Original, appear in monthly fanzines sent by
post to readers before being published as books.
Bâtard is the latest series that the
author has created with a new episode released
every month. He works in a workshop in Brussels,
where Flemish, French, and Swiss designers mix. |
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Fintan Taite
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Fintan Taite
is an award winning cartoonist based in Dublin.
He has over a decades experience working
freelance on everything from picture Books and
Editorial Illustration to Comics and animation.
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Les Phares de la
Bande Dessinée Belge
(Highlights of the
Belgian Comic Strip)
9 -
14 March
In Belgium, comic strip art is a
real institution. Even if in
this country it is only natural
for most abodes to house a
collection or to contain a
library dedicated to comic strip
art, and even if more than half
of the books published and
produced in Belgium are comic
strip books, it is especially
the graphic artists and
script-writers – more than one
thousand in number – who have
transformed Belgium into the
Kingdom of Comic Strip Art since
almost one century.
Some of Hergé’s comic strip
books or those of other artists
of his generation have thus
gained cult-image status, and
have, of course, been parodied
and hijacked a thousand times
over. ‘Highlights of Belgian
Comic Strip Art’ can only
provide a mere glimpse.
Works presented include Hergé,
Franquin, Edgard P. Jacobs,
Morris, Schuitten, Yslaire,
Brecht, Hermann, Max de Radiguès
and many more!
Presented by the
Belgian
Comic Strip Centre |
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- Alliance Française in Dublin -
(+353) 1 676 1732 - programming@alliance-francaise.ie |
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