2022
2022
Jarnac International Comics Workshop 2022
The opening year of the Jarnac International Comics Workshop was marked with an invitation to the participating artists to present their work in “getting-to-know each other” sessions. It was followed by the visit to the current exhibition at Angouleme’s Comics Museum (Musée de la Bande Dessinée). This set a pattern for the subsequent gatherings.
The artists were also invited to make sketches and, on returning home, completing a comic strip story, or a single drawing based on their experience in Jarnac. Another standard established was to have a guided tour around Jarnac, led by Predrag Popović, in order to better understand the past and the present of this town, and get introduced to the local community. Of importance was meeting local artists and cultural activists from Charente, such as Claire Laporte-Bisquit, an artist and art curator from Jarnac.
Meet The Artists
Among the artists participating in this inaugural event were Samplerman from France, Larisa Ackov and Gordana Basta from Serbia, Claudio Marinaccio from Italy and Eva Hilhorst from Holland.
Gordana Basta
Serbia
Aleksandar Zograf
Serbia
Aleksandar Zograf (www.aleksandarzograf.com) is the pseudonym of Saša Rakezić, who began publishing his comics in the former country of Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s. During the 1990s, his work gained international recognition, with publications through Fantagraphics Books in the United States and L’Association in France, among others. Collections of his comics have also been published in Italy, the United Kingdom, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Japan, Hungary, and various other countries.
Eva Hilhorst
Holland
Eva Hilhorst (1970) works as an illustrator and graphic journalist. She is the initiator and Editor in Chief of the internet platform for graphic journalism Drawing the Times (www.drawingthetimes.com). Eva teaches Visual Reportage at the University of the Arts in Utrecht and Minor Graphic Novel at Sint Joost School of Art & Design in Breda (the Netherlands).
Larisa Ackov
Serbia
Larisa Ackov (http://larisa-ackov.blogspot.com/) was born in Pančevo, Serbia, in 1971. She graduated at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Ceramics in 1998, receiving her Master’s degree in the class of Unique Ceramics in 2004. Currently a free-lance artist, in addition to ceramics, she paints and creates comics art.
Yvan Guillo
France
Yvan Guillo a.k.a. Samplerman was born in 1971 in France. His journey in comics started circa 1990 with a fanzine Crachoir which featured many of his experimentations on the medium. In 2014, his collages made out of old American comics available on the Internet started attracting attention. Since then, he has published several books and worked as an illustrator for the press and the music industry.
Claudio Marinaccio
Italy
Claudio Marinaccio was born in Turin in 1982. His comics have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including Rolling Stone, La Stampa and Internazionale. He published the graphic novel Trentatré ionizzanti (Feltrinelli Comics, 2021) and the comic investigation into the mental health of young people entitled Non può piovere per sempre (Skytg24, 2023). His latest book is Aimone l’airone (D editore).