Barcelona International Comics Fair ~ Europe Comics

08 - 10 May 2020

Barcelona International Comics Fair

Barcelona, Spain https://www.comic-barcelona.com/eng/home.cfm Comics Event or Festival

Barcelona International Comics Fair is an annual meeting of authors, publishers and comic readers. It has taken place in the city of Barcelona since 1981. The festival’s prizes are awarded to the best works published during the year preceding the Fair. In addition, the Gran Premi del Saló (Grand Prize of the Barcelona International Comics Convention) is awarded to authors based on their entire career.

21 - 21 May 2021

European Comics: A Female Perspective

Female creators from across Europe will share their thoughts and experience in making comics in their respective countries. What have been the challenges in their work, has anything changed in recent years and what are their hopes for the future? They will also share how everyday life inspires many of their professional projects and how the comics medium helps them convey these stories.

These and other topics will be discussed with Kaisa Leka (Finland), Johanna Maierski (Germany), Ingrid Chabbert (France), Judith Vanistendael (Belgium) and Luciana Cimino (Italy).

Moderated by Dr. Lucia Cedeira Serantes (Assistant professor, The University of Western Ontario).

The event will take place from 18:30-19:45 (CEST) – 12:30-13:45 (ET) via Zoom. Register (required) here.

Cover image © Kaisa & Christoffer Leka, Time After Time.

29 - 29 April 2021

White All Around: The Canterbury School Story as a Graphic Novel

1 South Canterbury Road Canterbury, CT 06331, USA http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/O/OTIS/ekp.cfm?curOrg=OTIS Creator Event

Watch live over Zoom White All Around creators Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert talk about their collaboration on their graphic novel with Joanie DiMartino, Museum Curator & Site Superintendent of the Prudence Crandall Museum. Hosted by Otis Library as part of the Harris Sisters Month. Sign language interpretation will be available.

April 29th at 7pm EST.

Register here and join the talk to get your free E-copy of the English edition.

13 - 28 September 2021

Chaniartoon International Comics Festival

Chania, Greece https://www.chaniartoonfest.gr/index.php/en/ Comics Event or Festival

Chaniartoon is an annual festival dedicated to comic, illustration, animation and game design. It presents every year innovative Augmented and Virtual Reality content. Every year there is a 3-day Artist Alley, several workshops and presentations, online and physical screenings, exhibition of comic artists, comic and animation awards and many other events. It takes place in the beautiful scenery of Chania-Crete.

12 - 30 May 2020

#CanCAF 2020

https://www2.torontocomics.com/cancaf-2020/ Comics Event or Festival

Comics festival across Canada are thrilled to announce a month-long digital initiative called #CanCAF. Each participating festival or event is programming a variety of comics related events, from workshops to interviews, live drawing to panel discussions, podcasts to videocasts, and you can check out the #CanCAF tag across to social media to see the great material being created.

#CanCAF is a joint initiative of, and presented by:

Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival (DCAF)
Festival BD de Montréal (MCAF)
Quebec BD
Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)
Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF)