In occasione del TCAF, il Toronto Comics Art Festival, la cartonista italiana Bianca Bagnarelli parteciperà ad un dibattito all’Alliance Francaise. Bianca è la co-fondatrice di “Delebile” un’etichetta indipendente che pubblica fumetti di giovani autori italiani e internazionali. “Fish”, pubblicato da Nobrow, ha vinto la medaglia d’oro per la Society of Illustrators of New York. Il suo ultimo fumetto, “Daughters”, è stato pubblicato da Shortbox. Ha lavorato come illustratrice con The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, Mcsweeney’s, ESPN.
Il programma include::
For the EUROPEAN PANEL : David B (France), Wauter Mannaert (Belgium), Nico Naranjo (Spain) and Stephanie Wunderlich (Germany). Moderated by Thomas-Louis Cote, Director of the FBDFQ.
For FRENCH LANGUAGE PANEL featuring authors from France and Quebec! Yvan Alabgé (France), Brigitte Findakly (France), Julie Rocheleau (Quebec), and Lewis Trondheim (France). Moderated by journalist Genevieve Oger.
The Cartonist:
David B. is one of France’s finest cartoonists and a co-founder of the legendary L’Association collective. He is the author of many books of comics including The Armed Garden, Nocturnal Conspiracies, and Epileptic which was awarded Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario and the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. Nocturnal Conspiracies was nominated for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Eisner Awards.
Wauter Mannaert has a master’s degree in film and animation from the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels, earned in 2002. He currently works in the Belgian capital as a graphic novelist, illustrator and cartoonist. After his studies and before turning towards comics, he specialized in media education and worked for years as a youth worker in one of Brussels’ most deprived neighborhoods.
Nico Naranjo was born in 1992 and has been drawing more or less ever since. He collaborated in the collective El Taller, 3rd Season and published his first solo album, the Spanish-language edition of The Toucan Patrol in 2017. An English edition will follow in 2018. Right now he combines his illustration work, editorial projects of comics and classes as a drawing teacher in the ESDIP in Madrid, Spain.
Stephanie Wunderlich studied Communication Design at both FH Augsburg and ISIA Urbino and graduated with a degree in communication design. Based in Hamburg she works as a freelance illustrator for international magazines and publishers of books. She also teaches illustration, recently at the University of Applied Science Hamburg. Her favourite medium is paper collage.