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:
- Babak Ganjei
- Breakdown Press (Connor Willumsen, Antoine Cossé, Lando, Joe Kessler, Zoë Taylor)
- Comic Book Slumber Party
- Comics Workbook
- Decadence Comics
- Ditto Press
- Donya Todd
- Eleni Kalorkoti
- Esther McManus
- Eyeball Comix
- Famicon Express
- Faye Coral Johnson
- Ferry Gouw
- Grace Wilson
- Jack Teagle
- James Jarvis
- Jazz Dad Books
- Joseph P Kelly
- Landfill Editions
- Laura Callaghan
- Matt Swan
- Mike Redmond
- Museums Press/Good Press
- Rob Flowers
- Sina Sparrow
- Space Face Books (JMKE)
- Susumu Mukai
- Will Sweeney
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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