El Mariachi de Bánkitó

Hey Dear Readers,

This is the little account of this year's Bánkitó Festival, which was held in late July, so this single page took ages to complete. The reason probably being that I wanted to document a little sequence that took place on the last day but couldn't get around to start working on it a few weeks after the event.

In the meantime I realized that I forgot to provide any explanation to last year's festival post (http://agentoozecomics.blogspot.hu/2011/09/sexy-times-at-bankito.html) Well, let's just say that it is a perfect little festival in a perfect chilled out village in Hungary. A real island of sanity, save for a ruined toilet or two...

 
Panel 1
Bánkitó, last day's early afternoon
Me: Look at that. Can Lackó really play the guitar?
Ricsi: Dunno, but he surely knows how to hold it.

Panel 2
Ricsi & Me: Lackóóó! Play us something, willya?

Panel 3
Me: Desperadooo!
Ricsi: Can you do the Székely Anthem? (a slightly nationalistic song not typically sang at this festival)

Panel 4
Ricsi: Woow, such a big rocker!

Panel 6
Lackó: Hallo, Gica? Have I seen Kardos Dani's guitar? Weeelll, you know....

Hope something comes across from the atmosphere. Dear Readers, this is definitely not my most prolific year comicswise, but I plan to do another post or two before it's done. So stick around!

Winter Wonderland

Just in time to have a post for march. No subtitles required.

Sexy times at Bánkitó

Panel 1

Wednesday morning

Judit: Jeez, can you believe they left behind the carriage we got on?

Me: Yea, now we’ll surely not get there by noon as the organizers had asked.

Panel 2

Thursday: we’re building the festival

Me: Two hundred straw bales for sound absorbing material! … Hoah!

Marci: Once we finish packing these up they can forget about us for today!

Attila: And even for tomorrow!

Panel 3

Friday: theatre performance at the village hall

Secretary of state: Dear committee, please make your suggestions for the mascot of the European Union’s official Hungarian holiday!

Expert of real Hungarian stuff: An ancient Hungarian hippopotamus!

Single minded sporty girl: A horse!

Leader of the League of Large Families: Please, I need you to understand that the mascot can only be a saker falcon!

Professor of Humanities: Hmm… and how about a saker falcon in a glass of Hungarian brandy?

Panel 4

A little later

Judit: Let’s run a race!

Me: Okay, come on!

Me: Searching for parts of the mobile in the dark – it’s such fun!

Judit: Stop nagging, it’s only the back piece missing now!

Panel 5

There were certainly concerts too at the festival. Korai Öröm played a very smashing gig for example.

Panel 6

All in all, this one was a very sexy festival.

Slogan on banner: Cycle to the lake again next year!

Gyöngyöspata: a visit for a reason

Ismét Szüfrazset City jelentkezik. Alább látható március 15-e estéjének szubjektív krónikája.


The translation for English speakers follows below, but first a bit of explanation on the recent events that took place in Gyöngyöspata (hopefully it is proper to use the past tense) http://errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=3816. Also, some background to the opening panel: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17132&Itemid=220
Panel 1
On 15th March I went to the demonstration for free press.
"This is so dam good! It's not only about the media law though anymore. Such a big protest could even generate some sensible thinking among the government, couldn't it?"
Panel 2
After the demo I met Kati and Tamer by chance on the spot.
Kati: The locals asked us to go back in the evening. Are you joining us?
Panel 3
I joined them. About twenty of us left for the village riding in five cars.
Panel 4
For those who have missed out on the news, in early March some "civic guard" organizations - curiously resembling the legally banned Hungarian Guard militia - took the maintenance of "public security" to their own hands in Gyöngyöspata. In reality it meant that they kept harassing the Roma residents of the village night and day. The police merely stood by and nobody intervened to protect the Roma - i.e. Hungarian citizens - on behalf of the government.
The civic demonstration held in the village on 15th March was the first time when active solidarity was shown towards these people.
Panel 5
The locals greeted our arrival also because otherwise the Guard would not have left them in peace during the night either.
Woman: They shout at night and bang on the doors. Our children are afraid.
Man: How can this be tolerated? Where is the prime minister when we need him?
Panel 6
The guards and the "outlaws" seemed to appreciate our presence too in their own way.
Guards: Queerjewfaggot green liberal scums!!! Now what?!
Me (thinking): A better today for you, fuckers!

Wait, it's getting personal... Szüfrazset City

Szürke egy februárunk volt. Nem csoda, hogy kedvet kaptam egy személyes jellegű webcomichoz...

There are some really cool webcomics around which document the author's personal deeds, e.g a local one is http://csordasdaniel.blog.hu/, and I finally felt like trying my hand in something along these lines. This spring seems pretty eventful so far.
I realized that the translation can be tricky but let's give it a go anyway:

Suffragette City, no. 1 - The Idea
Panel 1
So it started like...
I should do a webcomic...On something topical of course.
Panel 2
Here's this city... A complete chaos... But also a lot of cool places and cool people.
Panel 3
And here's me too... Coming and going, seeing and hearing all sorts of things.
Panel 4
Aloud: Hey, it should be about me then! (thinking): About what I do, what I think, what happens to me!
Panel 5
Getting started right now!

It wasn't that tricky after all. Now, let's admire the song that provided the title of this fine piece of art:

A következő rész Gyöngyöspatáról szól majd/ The next episode will be about a place called Gyöngyöspata. I suggest googling it, especially the current news items.
Stay tuned, Corvin is not forgotten either.