Kunstmuseum Luzern
Blab! Exhibition
Blab! Exhibition
Camille Rose Garcia
David Sandlin
Gary Baseman
Gary Baseman
Sue Coe
Marc Rosenthal
Stéphane Blanquet
Stéphane Blanquet
Peter Kuper
Helge Reumann
& Xavier Robel
Fabrique de Fanzine
How to Make
a Fanzine...
Alex Baladi
Andréas Kündig
Ibn Al Rabin
Pakito Bolino
Fanzines
Pipifax
Helge Reumann
& Xavier Robel
Ael Robel &
Mina Robel
Nicolas Robel
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Bart Beaty
w/ Robel book
David Basler
Roli Fischbacher
Markus Huber
Massimo Milano
Johanna Rojola
& Dice Industries
Jenni Rope
Johanna Rojola
Johanna Rojola
Johanna Rojola
Matti Hagelberg
Matti Hagelberg
Matti Hagelberg
Finnish Comics Exhibition
Ville Ranta
Katja Tukiainen
Mawil
Mawil Exhibition
Grrrr
Max
Max Exhibition
Max Exhibition
Max Exhibition
Max Exhibition
Jean-Christophe Menu
Menu Exhibition
Menu Exhibition
Menu Exhibition
ChiHoi Lee
Nicolas Mahler
Dice Industries
Christoph Abbrederis
Sascha Hommer
Uli Pröfrock
Kai Wilksen
Sabine Witkowski & Bart Beaty
Art of Modern Rock: Poster Explosion
Märt Infanger
Rock Posters
Michel Casarramona
Rock Posters
Jay Ryan
Alex Baladi & Thomas Ott
Thomas Ott, Beelzebub
Thomas Ott, Beelzebub
Thomas Ott, Beelzebub
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Kunstmuseum Luzern Probably the most impressive exhibition at Fumetto this year, the Blab! exhibition, was held at the Museum of Art Lucerne. The museum is situated in the top of the beautifully intricate KKL (Culture and Congress Center), built by French architect Jean Nouvel.
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Blab! Exhibition
The exhibition of Monte Beauchamp's Blab! featured original art from Gary Baseman, Stéphane Blanquet, Camille Rose Garcia, Matti Hagelberg, Peter Kuper, Elvis Studio, Marc Rosenthal, David Sandlin and many more. Some people who I didn't see but would have liked to were Gary Panter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mark Ryden and Chris Ware.
Blab! Exhibition
The best part of the Blab! exhibition was that all the art was hung without frames. If you look closely at the following Blab! photos, you'll see transparent triangular hangers just on the corners of the artwork. The Swiss are probably used to the public not touching the art.
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Gary Baseman
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Sue Coe Political British artist Sue Coe (RAW). |
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Fabrique de Fanzine Geneva artists Alex Baladi, Ibn Al Rabin, Andréas Kündig and Yves Levasseur make up the Fabrique de Fanzine (Fanzine Factory). La Fabrique de Fanzine has traveled to many comics festivals over the years including Angoulême, Sierre, and Moscow! There is a big table with chairs, a big carpet with cushions, paper, pens, a guillotine, a photocopier and music. Everybody is welcome and encouraged to make and read mini-comics. Why don’t you invite them to your town?? |
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Fabrique de Fanzine Instructions. |
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Andréas Kündig Andréas Kündig makes a fanzine. |
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Pakito Bolino Pakito Bolino makes a fanzine. Pakito runs with Caroline Sury, the experimental publishing house Le Dernier Cri. Their new animated film premiered at Angoulême 2005 and played again at Fumetto along side their art exhibition. They’ve worked with Max Andersson, ATAK, MS Bastian, Mark Beyer, Bitterkomix, Blanquet, Blex Bolex, Charles Burns, Henrik Dorgathen, Julie Doucet, Quentin Faucompré, Matti Hagelberg, Daisuke Ichiba, Killoffer, Takeshi Nemoto, Keita Ota, Gary Panter, Thomas Ott, Raymond Reynaud, Henriette Valium, Fabio Zimbres, and about 60 more artists from around the world.
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Pipifax Pipifax prints silkscreen editions from ATAK, Mark Beyer,Stéphane Blanquet, Martin tom Dieck, Matti Hagelberg, Helge Reumann, Xavier Robel and many more artists. Besides collecting vintage printing machinery, Pipifax is writing a book about silkscreen history.
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Ael Robel and Mina Robel
Nicolas Robel's son and Xavier Robel's daugher.
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Nicolas Robel Geneva based Nicolas Robel is a comic artist, graphic designer and publisher of B.ü.L.b comix. |
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
How Should I Know?
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Posted to the walls is a collage of photocopied versions of Robel's art showing at the same time in his exhibition in Geneva.
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Shot by their father, these Super8 films are of a young Nicolas and his older brother Xavier.
Nicolas Robel Exhibition
Here you are meant to sit and listen to music on headphones while perusing Robel's books or watching the films of his childhood.
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Bart Beaty w/ Robel book European comics reporter Bart Beaty holds up Nicolas Robel’s new exhibition catalogue/art book, How should i know?. Inside are three essay on Robels work. Bart Beaty (Canada) writes in English with “A View of the Forest Through the Clouds”. Geneva journalist Benjamin Stroun writes in French with “Plier des peluches en 4 pour les faire rentrer dans la tête”. Urs Hangartner (Luzern) writes in German with "Melancholisch-traurige Traumwelten”. |
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David Basler David Basler is the publisher of Edition Moderne and Strapazin. |
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Roli Fischbacher Roli Fischbacher does many things in the Swiss comics world. But the only one I can think of now is that he edited the wonderful Gary Panter Strapazin issue. |
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Markus Huber German artist Markus Huber's story "Come Back" can be viewed on his website. |
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Massimo Milano Swiss artist Massimo Milano's new book Vallat was just published by Edition Moderne. |
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Johanna Rojola A lot of Finnish artist Johanna Rojola's comics are published in French in L'Association's Lapin. |
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Johanna Rojola Johanna Rojola's artwork in the Finnish comics exhibition. |
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Johanna Rojola |
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Matti Hagelberg |
Finnish Comics Exhibition
The exhibition, held in the attic of an old prison-turned-hotel, featured work from Matti Hagelberg, Ville Ranta, Kati Rapia, Johanna Rojola, Jenni Rope (Napa Books), Katja Tukiainen, and more. Most of the artwork was hung from wooden rafters above. Beams of natural light came in from cracks in the roof.
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Mawil German artist Mawil had a solo exhibition of his work at Fumetto. He is part of the Monogatari group (along with Jens Harder).
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Mawil Exhibition
Max
Renowned Spanish artist Max co-publishes (with Pere Joan) Inrevés Edicions which produces underground Spanish comics, Spanish translated comics, and the anthology Nosotros Somos los Muertos (edited by Max).
Max Exhibition
Max's exhibition consisted of comics, illustration and animations, spanning his career of 30 years.
Max Exhibition
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Max Exhibition Bardín el superrealista. |
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Max Exhibition Mr. Okada. |
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Jean-Christophe Menu Comic book artist and publisher Jean-Christophe Menu, one of the six heads of L'Association (Paris), had a comics retrospective set over two floors of the small Galerie Brandgassli. Menu, along with Thierry Groensteen, Killoffer, Stanislas and Lewis Trondheim, founded Oulipo-based OuBaPo (Ouvroir de Bandes Dessinées Potentielles).
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Menu Exhibition
Menu Exhibition
Menu Exhibition
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ChiHoi Lee Hong Kong based artist ChiHoi Lee. ChiHoi has taken part in many eastern and western anthologies as well as published a few of his solo books. ChiHoi was heavily involved in Cockroach, Hong Kong's now defunct quarterly oversized comics magazine, edited by Craig au Yeung. In 2002, Chihoi published an anthology called Yummy Dragon. Recently, Chihoi (along with artists like Craig au Yeung and Hok Tak Yeung) has founded a new group called Springroll which will publish their first book this summer 2005. |
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Dice Industries Hamburg based Dice's book Rimini Redux was published by Reprodukt in 2003. He's currently working on his next book. |
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Christoph Abbrederis Austrian illustrator Christoph Abbrederis. |
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Sascha Hommer Hamburg based artist Sascha Hommer (aka Pascal D. Bohr) publishes an anthology of young Hamburg artists called Orang. |
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Uli Pröfrock Uli Pröfrock runs X für U, an amazing comic book store in Freiburg, Gemany. Franziskanerstraße 9 |
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Kai Wilksen Kai Wilksen (Freiburg) is a French to German comics translator, working mainly for Strapazin. |
Sabine Witkowski and Bart Beaty
Sabine Witkowski (Fumetto festival director) treated a few artists and non-artists (Bart Beaty and myself) to a traditional Swiss Fondu. Here, Bart explains why Charlie's Angels II is the best movie ever made...
The Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion
The Art of Modern Rock exhibition, held in the basement of the old prison, showed rock posters from over a hundred international artists. Included were American artists Coop, Firehouse (Ron Donavan and Chuck Sperry), Derek Hess, Frank Kozik, Lindsey Kuhn, Jay Ryan and Swiss artists Dirk Bonsma, Michel Casarramona and Märt Infanger.
Rock Posters
Rock Posters
Alex Baladi and Thomas Ott
Thomas Ott's new long awaited book Cinema Panopticum has just been released by Edition Moderne. The version at Fumetto was a special signed and numbered limited edition. The official release will be in the same size as his other books.
Thomas Ott, Beelzebub
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Thomas Ott, Beelzebub Thomas Ott shokingly does rockabilly in a white suit!!! |
Thomas Ott, Beelzebub
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Kati Rapia Finnish artist Jenni Rope . |
Fanzines
Fanzines made at the Fabrique de Fanzine. Pictured are fanzines by Alex Baladi, Bart Beaty, Pakito Bolino, Jean-Christophe Menu, Nicolas Robel (with his son) and a collaborative comic by all of the above people and also with Andréas Kündig, Ibn Al Rabin and myself. The drawing on the far left is of Bart Beaty (by Alex Baladi).
