Breakdown Press gear up for first Safari Festival in London

Safari Festival Poster

 

Breakdown Press, a London-based comics publisher, have organised a new, free Safari Festival. The event will take place Saturday 30th August at Studio 2, the new Shoreditch gallery space of London-based creative agency, Protein.

Primarily focused on comics, the organisers hop the Festival will enable attendees to experience the best of UK comics’ “avant-garde”. The artists exhibiting have been selected for their innovative, fearless, diverse approaches to making comics; approaches to cartooning that Safari intends to champion.

Exhibitors include:

Breakdown Press – comprising Simon Hacking, Tom Oldham and Josh Palmano, with the invaluable assistance of Joe Kessler – is dedicated to printing and promoting the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past.
You can view their 2013/2014 catalogue here (PDF).

• Safari Festival 2014: 11am to 6pm, Saturday August 30th 2014,  Protein, 31 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EY. Contact: safarifestival.tumblr.com | @safarifestival | info@safari-festival.com

Getting There:  

By train: Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street, Old Street.

By bus: routes 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 55, 67, 78, 135, 149, 205, 242, 243, 388.



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