At the last weekend of March, we gather once again at the Kraków Comic Book Festival celebrating the writers, artists and readers of the genre. It’s the 11th edition of the event, held in-person until 2019 and moving entirely online last year. This year the organisers have settled on a hybrid format. Discussions with artists, lectures, workshops and exhibitions are held at the Arteteka of the Regional Public Library, the Potocki Palace and the Comics Museum Foundation. People who can’t attend in person can watch online streams of events.
This year’s festival welcomes guests from Belgium, France, Spain and Finland. The main element of the programme is the exhibition of Belgian women’s comics prepared alongside the General Representative of Wallonia-Brussels in Warsaw. Polish guests include Maria Apoleika, Magdalena Kania (her illustration features on the poster promoting this year’s event) and Aleksandra Herzyk – author of popular online comics whose album Freedom or Death is launched at the festival.
