Safari Festival Returns in August

By John Freeman on July 8, 2016

Safari Festival returns to London next month (27th August). The brainchild of Breakdown Press, the event is a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond.

The festival is an opportunity for a curated group of cartoonists and publishers to exhibit and sell their artwork, prints and, primarily, comics, and for 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.

Guests include: Simon Hanselmann, Fantagraphic Books, Joan Cornella, Anna Haifisch; plus Ally Russell, Anti Ghost Studio (Babak Ganjei, Rob Flowers, Tim Stevens), B ecca Tobin, B ergen Street Comics Press, Breakdown Press (Joe Kessler, Antoine Cossé, Richard Short, Alexander Tucker, Zoë Taylor), Brigid Deacon, Comic Book Slumber Party, Comics Workbook, Crumb Cabin, Decadence Comics (Lando, Stathis Tsemberlidis, Emix Regulus), Evan Androutsopoulos, Eleni Kalorkoti, Esther McManus, Famicon Express (Leon Sadler, Stefan Sadler, Jon Chandler), Jazz Dad Books, Joseph P Kelly, Kus!, Lagon Revue (Alexis Beauclair, Sammy Stein), Landfill Editions, Laura Callaghan, Matt Swan, Lizzy Stewart, Luke Stewart, One Beat Zines, Otto Press, Retrofit Comics, Shaky Kane, Silica Burn (Will Tempest, Liam Cobb, Tom Kemp), Simon Moreton, Takayo Aikyama, Treasure Fleet, Wai Wai Pang and Will Sweeney.

The festival will be free to attend, and will take place at Protein Studios, the Shoreditch gallery space of London-based creative agency, Protein.

Breakdown Press – run by Simon Hacking, Tom Oldham, Joe Kessler and Josh Palmano – is a comics publisher based in London, dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past. Their developing catalogue of titles includes Klaus Magazine and Work in Forcefield by Alexander Tucker.

• Safari Festival 11.00 – 6.00pm Saturday 27th August 2016, Protein Studios, 31 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EY. 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

• Web: safari-festival.com | Tumblr: safarifestival.tumblr.com | Twitter: @safarifestival | Email: info@safari-festival.com

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John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.

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