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Fantagraphics Comes To East London For The Safari Festival

Published Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:00:29 -0500

Last updated Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:22:20 -0500

Tom Oldham writes,

Hello, My name's Tom and I'm one of the editors at Breakdown Press, a comics and art books publisher based in London, England.

Each year we run Safari Festival, It's a curated event designed to showcase the most progressive and avant-garde cartooning talent, by both established and emerging artists and publishers from around the world. This year the festival takes place on Saturday the 27^th of August between 11am and 6pm at Protein Studios, in Shoreditch, East London.

The 2016 international line-up features New York Times bestseller, Simon Hanselmann (Megahex), cartoonist Joan Cornellà (Zonzo), the Space Boss himself Shaky Kane, illustrator Laura Callaghan as well as publishers Fantagraphics Books, Decadence Comics, One Beat Zines, Bergen Street Press and us, Breakdown Press.

Here's our full guest line up!

Alexis Beauclair
Ally Russell
Anna Haifisch
Babak Ganjei
Becca Tobin
Bergen Street Comics Press
Breakdown Press (Joe Kessler, Antoine Cosse, Richard Short, Alexander Tucker, Zoe Taylor)
Brigid Deacon
Comic Book Slumber Party
Comics Workbook
Crumb Cabin
Dilraj Mann
Disinfotainment (Mark Pawson)
Decadence Comics (Lando, Stathis Tsemberlidis, Emix Regulus)
Eleni Kalorkoti
Evan Androutsopoulos
Eyeball Comix
Famicon Express (Leon Sadler, Stefan Sadler, Jon Chandler)
Fantagraphics Books (Simon Hanselmann)
Feminist Library
Gabriel Corbera
HOPE not hate
L'Institut Sérigraphique
Irkus M. Zeberio
Jazz Dad Books
JMKE
Joan Cornellà
Joseph P Kelly
Krent Able
kuš! Komiksi
lagon Revue (Alexis Beauclair, Sammy Stein)
Landfill Editions
Laura Callaghan
Liam Cobb
Lizzy Stewart
Luke Stuart
Matthew Pettit
Matthew Swan
One Beat Zines
OOMK Zine (Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin)
Otto Press
Retrofit Comics
Rob Flowers
Sammy Stein
Shaky Kane
Simon Moreton
Takayo Akiyama
Tom Kemp
Treasure Fleet
Vincent Fritz
Wai Wai Pang
Will Sweeney
Will Tempest
With more to be announced

DJ's
11 – 12 – Babak Ganjei (NTS radio)
12 – 1 – Phil Serfaty (Oslo House)
1 – 2 – Negative Space
2 – 3 – Becky Healy (Wolf Girl)
3 – 4 – Alexander Tucker ( Grumbling Fur )
4 – 5 – Will Sweeney (Brain Haulage)
5 – 6 – Ben Perkins (Pub Classics / Another Subculture)

The festival is completely free to attend. Let us know you're coming on our facebook event here.

This year we've teamed up with a charity partner, HOPE not hate, in part as a response to the rise in xenophobic and racist hate crimes in London post brexit. They are a fantastic organization and worth your support.

As well as the main festival we'll also be running several satellite events across London in the build up to, and after the event.

The first will be an exhibition to celebrate the launch of issue 11 of Decadence Comics regular anthology at the Sassoon Gallery in Peckham, on Thursday the 25^th of August, 6-10pm. Decadence have been a stalwart on the underground British comics scene for a decade, and still manage to bring ground breaking, beautiful science fiction comics to the fore. If you have the Incal and Akira on your bookshelves you might want to spend some time with Decadence's output. Bold words to be sure, but take a look at their work, its breath-taking. Find out more about the event here

We'll also be hosting a signing at the legendary Gosh! Comics in London with Joan Cornellà between 5-7pm, on Friday the 26^th of September. Let us know you're coming here.