Comics Beyond

ongoing

"""Comics beyond"" is the experimentation of a European comics incubator, with the objective of strengthening the employability of European comics artists. European comics artists suffer from a precarious situation; very few of them manage to develop their careers and make a living from their artistic activity. They lack networking spaces, continuous training and development of new skills that would allow them to expand their professional and creative activity, at different scales. This project aims to develop new skills for European comic artists on a European scale, in particular by implementing a week of training for twelve artists on the development of new skills: the entrepreneurial author posture, the creation of live drawing shows, collaboration with museums, games. Also, throughout the project, attention will be paid to comics workshops and their implementation: guidelines, lectures and webinars will be set up in order to provide training for comics artists, as well as for schools and other interested organizations. Forty comics workshops will be set up in Europe. It seeks to foster the creation and circulation of European works and artists by overcoming the language barrier associated with books, in particular by supporting the creation, production and international distribution of four transnational comic shows, which can be seen and understood without translation - and the circulation and networking of the four artistic groups behind these works. The creation of a database of transdisciplinary comics will enable the networking of artists and distribution spaces, so as to promote and structure the transdisciplinarity of comics on a European scale, encouraging transnational and transdisciplinary creation and helping comics to reach new audiences."