FESTIVAL IN ARMENIA TO BRING TOGETHER CREATORS OF MOST FAMOUS COMICS IN EUROPE
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 11, 2010 – 17:47 AMT 12:47 GMT
Cartoonist, French journalist Laurent Melikian said that Yerevan will
host the second international comics festival, due May 14-16. The
festival will bring together around 20 cartoonists from Armenia and
other countries, Melikian told a press conference in Yerevan.
He said that the idea for a comics festival in Armenia was born after
the French journalist’s meeting with cartoonist Tigran Mangassarian.
Meanwhile, Tigran Mangassarian and 3 Dzuk (three fishes) group, the
authors of Pentagon and Silence comic series, founded the Union of
Comics Development in Angouleme in 2007.
In its turn, the Union organized the first Comics Festival in Armenia
in 2008. This year, the festival will bring together the most famous
cartoonist of Europe.
Melikian noted that Yerevan comic series will be published in Armenia
in the near future, it is created by the best students of comics
master classes organized in 2008.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
