Here You can find the short version of programme.

Comics Saturday, October 27th

Meetfactory, Ke Sklárně 15, Prague 5-Smíchov
DĚTSKÝ KOMIKSFEST! S ALBATROSEM
(10.00–13.00, vstup pro děti 30,–)

KOMIKSFEST! FOR CHILDREN WITH ALBATROS
(10:00 am–1:00 pm, entrance fee for children 30 CZK)
Create your own simple optical illusion game from paper (by NAPOLI).  Different situations with unexpected punch lines will come to life in  your hands. Dive into history with our historical workshops called Was I a Hussite? (by Honza a Klára Smolíkovi) and Pictures and Bubbles from Czechoslovak History (by Barbora Šalamounová). Walk through a mysterious Lesokraj (by Lou Sanitráková). Get your own Flipbook moving (by Vojtěch Domlátil) or try digital sketching (by WACOM). As usually  you can draw a comic buttons or win lots of interesting books.
 

Comics Saturday – main programme

(3:00 pm–12:00 pm, entrance fee 50 CZK)

Main auditorium

3.00 pm Masterpieces of European Comics – It Has Been Two Years Since and Now?
Discussion on purpose of the book series (by CREW publisher) that cover the most important pieces of European comics

4.00 pm Boulet a Pénélope Bagieu
The most popular bloggers in France

5.00 pm Scandinavian Comics
Panel discussion: Knut Larsson (S), Steffen Kverneland and Kristian Hellesund (N), Terhi Ekebom and Ville Häninnen (F)

6.30 pm Igort
Discussion with the Italian artist and owner of Coconino Press publishing house

7.30 pm James O´Barr + signing
Discussion with the author of a comic epic “The Crow” + drawing from a live model

9.00 pm Release of Brutto 3 + Fanouš: A Factory of Destruction

9.30 pm Comics Chacha
Comic authors and projects ask for your attention in Pecha Kucha format

10.00 pm Auction for the O’Barr drawing

10.30 Comics battle
Who will draw a better comic by means of high tech tablets? You decide!

Divadelní sál

2.30 pm Tomáš Kopřiva – comics, haikustrips, illustrations

3.00 pm Mainstream comics in the USA and a professional cartoonist Marco Turini
Presentation of the Italian artist who worked for Marvel and TopCow/Image

4.00 pm A Little Alenáš
An interactive comic; the presentation will be completed with examples of his work

5.00 pm Studio of Illustration VSUP

5.30 pm New Czech Comics 2000–2012
Presentation of the summarising publication published by Ministry of culture, Czech Republic (by Radim Kopáč)

6.00 pm Comics lettering – a concise speech about the grammar  of comics lettering, partially unfolding the elementary rules and  principles
(Miloš „Mankin“ Mičátek)

7.00 pm Gekiga
Lecture on author’s adult manga called gekiga since the 1960s. (Antonín Tesař and Karel Veselý)

8.00 pm Versus
Release of a narrative comic in which seven brave Satanists give their hands to Immanuella Lubrikant(Antonín and Jiří Tesařovi)

20.30 Dead, but Not Burried
Phil Mulloye’s film screening

22.00 The Crow
Screening of the comics adapted into a cult film of the same name

PLUS exhibition of superheroes edition of Vinyl toys
PLUS presentation of tablets and other cool things for artists – WACOM
PLUS publishers’ stands, presentations of new books, T-shirts, buttons, prints, bags
Czech comic artists’ signings

Sunday, October 28th

Such a Cute Beginning or Comics for Children
(2:00 pm) exhibition opening
(2:00–5:00 pm) The Viktorka workshop (by Honza and Klára Smolíkovi) and The Little Squirrel Workshop (Jarmila Marešová)
Creative coffee shop Vypálené koťátko, Mařákova 5 (until November 22nd)

Dan Černý – Fanouš: A Factory of Destruction
(6:00 pm) exhibition opening
Bookshop and coffee shop Řehoř Samsa, Vodičkova 30 (until November 10th)

Monday, October 29th

Igort – Russia Today
(6:00 pm) exhibition opening
1. Podzemní antikvariát, Hybernská 22 (until November 9th)

Univerza
(4.30 pm) commented exhibition
Klub K4, Celetná 20

Tuesday, October 30th

Whispers and Shouts
(6:00 pm) Scandinavian comics’ exhibition opening
Novoměstská radnice – tower, Karlovo nám. 1/23 (until November 18th)

Pérák – It does not depend on a name, there are deeds that count! Deeds not words!
(6:00 pm and 9:00 pm)  theatre show
MeetFactory, Ke Sklárně 15

Wednesday, October 31st

Frémok: Match de Catch
Waloonian comics in Prague
(6:00 pm) exhibition opening
Czech Centre Prague, Rytířská 31 (until December 1st)

Thursday, Novembre 1st

My name is Juanjo Sáez (and I am going to tell you, what I do)
(5:00 pm) Round table with the Spanish artist
Institut Cervantes, Na Rybníčku 536/6

Comics and Architecture
(6:30 pm) Ulli Lust and Tomáš Kučerovský’s exhibition opening
Goethe Institute, Masarykovo nábřeží 32 (until December 21st)

Friday, November 2nd

Match de Catch a Vielsalm
(5:00 pm) Discussion with founders of Frémok and the studio La „S“ Grand
Czech Centre Prague, Rytířská 31

Thomas Ott: La Grande Famiglia
(7:00 pm) exhibition opening + L’affiche Strapazin exhibition
Thomas Ott signing
National Gallery – Veletržní palác, Dukelských hrdinů 47 (until December, 2nd)

Saturday, November 3rd

Closing ceremony
BIO OKO, Fr. Křižíka 15, Letná (6:00 pm–12:00 pm, entrance fee 50 CZK)
6:00 pm Signals from the Unknown – presentation of exhibition
6:45 pm Thomas Ott – presentation of the Swiss artist + film screening
8:00 pm MURIEL 2012 – prize giving ceremony
9:30 pm The winner of Arnal contest announcement
10:00 pm Voleman vs Tramps – a short film based on comics stories

PLUS exhibition of superheroes’ edition of Vinyl toys
PLUS WACOM digital sketching

Epilogue, November 4th

ARNAL 2012
(3:00 pm) exhibition opening + life drawing
Era svět, Jungmannovo náměstí 767 (until November 13th)