- Title: PERU: New international comic book festival
- Date: 13th November 2008
- Summary: LIMA, PERU (NOVEMBER 11, 2008) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) FRONT OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PERU PARTICIPANTS FROM THE COMIC WORLD MEETING IN THE CENTRAL GALLERY OF THE LIBRARY COMICS DISPLAYED ON THE WALLS OF THE GALLERY VARIOUS OF VISITORS LOOKING AT THE WORK ON DISPLAY VARIOUS SHOWING COMICS IN DETAIL GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE APPRECIATING THE DISPLAYS VARIOUS SHOWING COMICS IN DETAIL VARIOUS OF SWISS COMIC AUTHOR TOM TIRABOSCO DEMONSTRATING HIS WORK PARTICIPANTS WATCHING TIRABOSCO DRAW A FEMALE FIGURE TIRABOSCO MAKING A PLAYFUL FACE AT THE CAMERA WHILE DRAWING A CARTOON SOUNDBITE (French) TOM TIRABOSCO, SWISS COMIC ARTIST SAYING: "Comics have today become adult, they are no longer little stories we read or are told as children, now they are often complex stories that tell of our age, like cinema or literature" YOUNG ATTENDEE LOOKING AT THE PUBLICATIONS ON DISPLAY OLDER MAN LOOKING THOROUGHLY AT THE COMICS VARIOUS SHOWING COMICS IN DETAIL PEOPLE LOOKING AT THE DISPLAY AND DISCUSSING THE WORK CARTOON ARTIST FABIEN VEHLMANN SIGNING A BOOK SOUNDBITE (French) FABIEN VEHLMANN, FRENCH CARTOON ARTIST SAYING: "There is clearly a predominance of Manga (comic books of Japanese origin) in comics worldwide which are invading countries in a good way as there are Japanese works of art... but also less positively in that there is a kind of stereotype in design and narration... so what I hope is that each country can preserve their uniqueness, their way of writing stories" GROUP OF PARTICIPANTS AT THE FESTIVAL TALKING AND DEBATING ONE OF THE DISPLAYS
- Embargoed: 28th November 2008 12:00
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- Location: Peru
- Country: Peru
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
- Reuters ID: LVA8FBGLQDBN43TQ1FKA7QDXNFD5
- Story Text: Comic strip aficionados from around the world are honing in on the central gallery of Peru's national library for the inaugural "Mundo Viñeta" festival this week (November 11).
Organized by local chapters of Alliance Francaise and the Goethe Institute, along with the Swiss Embassy, Spanish Cultural Center, and the National Library in Lima, the international comic book festival showcases over 7,000 pieces.
Satirical cartoonists and writers from France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and Peru, are participating in the festival, profiling the development of cartoons from their early beginnings to the present, from each country.
Comic strip lovers are also getting an opportunity to enjoy talks and participate in workshops with well-known authors in the comic book world, like Tom Tirabosco from Switzerland:
"Comics have today become adult, they are no longer little stories we read or are told as children, now they are often complex stories that tell of our age, like cinema or literature," Tirabosco said.
Spain's Javier Olivares, and Germany's Flix are also on hand giving workshops discussing the origins of comics and their individual work, as well as Peru's Javier Florez del Ãguila, Juan Acevedo y Luis Baldoceda, and France's Fabien Vehlmann:
"There is clearly a predominance of Manga (comic books of Japanese origin) in comics worldwide which are invading countries in a good way as there are Japanese works of art... but also less positively in that there is a kind of stereotype in design and narration... so what I hope is that each country can preserve their uniqueness, their way of writing stories,"
says Vehlmann.
The "Mundo Viñeta" international comic book festival runs until November 23. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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