Festive impressions

I guess most comic book festivals or conventions look a lot like the opening scenes of the Kevin Smith movie, Chasing Amy, save for Jason Lee starting a fight with an utterly cheeky reader. Apart from that you have authors signing (sometimes also selling) their books, publishers doing the same, also presentations and film screenings going on.
Pretty much the same went on in Gödör Klub, so I'll settle for a a couple of snapshots here.

First, the foretold stall of the art school exhibiting our works in order to lure more people for the upcoming courses. There was also a presentation on that end, which included words like 'art' and creation' a bit too many times. Sadly, none of the coursemates turned up during the two and a half hours I hung out at the premises.

The festival also had a special guest with a perfectly Hungarian name on account of her grandfather. Kati Kovács is from Finnland, currently living in Rome, but as a kid she spent a few summers in Hungary exporing her roots. She commemorated these experiences in her first comic book, pictured above.

Another author signing books was Dániel Merényi (aka Grafitember), who worked for an advertising company when he started his webcomics - to be found at http://napirajz.hu - partly to deal with his various impressions gained at work (hence the general atmosphere and language of the drawings). Since then he went on to work for a bicycle manufacture in the Italian Dolomits, and reportedly enjoys a lot more chilled-out lifestyle than earlier. He's keeping up with the drawings regardless, and was busy signing the second compilation of them at Gödör.

In closing a short video of the festival made by index.hu, targetted mainly at Hungarian speakers - I'm beginning to realize the schyzophrenic nature of writing this blog in English. Can't help sharing the information that there is a bit where one of the festival's award winning artist speaks. The guy is depressed and currently makes his living by cleaning up after horses in a stable. There's something sadly typical about the present state of Hungary in this setup.

Next update of Corvin is likely within a week, by the way!

Two new pages and an upcoming festival

So the saga is rolling on - not a mad pace admittedly, but inspiration doesn't grow on trees as someone once said.

Page 4

Panel 2

Kaspar: Got an idea?

Thug 1: Sorry, I have no clue.

Panel 3

Kaspar: What do you mean you have no clue?!

Thug 1: I like simple riddles, you know! “When it goes up it’s white, when it comes down it’s yellow” – things like that.

Panel 5

Colin: Guess it’s time we get away!

George: That’s on my mind too.

Panel 6

Thug 2: The Count will surely know. It sounds like his black magic stuff.

Kaspar: Enough of this! Get off now, so that…

So the guys finally got down to some action on page 5. I think there's not much need to translate the text - maybe you can try and guess what they say in panel 1 and 2. Feel free to comment your guesses - I still think it would be cool to make the blog more interactive.

Also, the 5th Hungarian Comics Festival - the major yearly comics event here - is happening next Saturday at the illustrious Gödör Klub located in Budapest downtown. Here's an image from last year :

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Theba Academy of Arts (the art school which held our comic book course) will have a stall of some sort exhibiting our works and they invited us along too.

Programme, poster and animated ad of festival:

http://fesztival.kepregeny.info/

Hope to see you there if you happen to be in town!