At the festival

The 2015 edition of BilBOlbul International Comics Festival wants to go deeper into the comics language, studying how it is evolving through new technologies and how do these new forms challenge the consumption of these “cultural products”. Scott McCloud, already fifteen years ago, predicted the “infinite canvas” and the development of web comics, however, we have yet, today, so much to explore in this language, born hybrid, open to contamination and which can always manifests itself through different and new forms, both digitally and on paper.

This is why the guests of this year’s festival often work on both platforms and aren’t afraid of experimenting with other methods and languages, like cinema, animation, music, illustration.

From Giacomo Nanni to Richard McGuire, from Lilli Carré to Alice Socal, all of the invited artists have in one way or another already experimented with the comics language, also mixing it with other media, mainly animation, but also working with gif and bending the ebooks limits.

Moreover, confirming its international wide ambition and its interest in a new generation of authors, BilBOlbul is expanding this year’s BBB Lab  through round tables, workshops and portfolio reviews as well as launching the all new BBBZine: a two day market of DIY and independent publishers from all around the world.