2. Mostar comic weekend
Herzegovina and Mostar are known for the Old Bridge in Mostar, great wine and cheese. Since last year, a great comic festival organized by MoStrip gets on this list as well.
The team from Mostrip invited us last year (read how it went down last year here and you can see our gallery here), and it was a delight to see so many younger and older comic fans gathered in Mostar. As soon the festival was complete, the guys were already making plans for the festival next year, which is coming in a few days, 9th and 10th of December. What makes us really proud of this comic organization are their activities, which are during the whole year and not during just a few days of the comic festival. Mostrip organized workshops for young comic fans during this year and this weekend you will be able to see their work displayed, and eventually in a few year, maybe the first Sergio Bonelli or Marvel comic artist from Mostar!
As last year, there will be a lot of activities, now over the whole weekend. Exhibitions of the authors which will be guests of Mostar comic weekend, drawing and signing sessions, forums, discussions, presentations, giveaways and a lot of interesting things in Mostar this weekend! As last year, the guests produced some great posters, with comic heroes coming to Mostar!
Guest of the 2nd Mostar Comic Weekend
MORENO BURATTINI (Milan / Italy) – The main editor and screenwriter of Zagor, one of the most popular heroes in our region, in the Italian publishing house, Sergio Bonelli Editore. In addition to the screenplay and modernization of Zagor’s character, where he introduced a lot of novelty and freshness in the series, he worked for various fanzine, as a co-author of several books about Zagor, initiator and associate of several editions and author of the biography of Guido Nolitta – Sergio Bonelli sono io. He is the winner of many awards in the field of scenarios.
WALTER VENTURI (Rome / Italy) – Artist on Tex, Zagor, Brad Barron and The Great Belzoni in publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore (SBE). He is characterized by a clean and detailed drawing. Before coming to the SBE, he worked on a number of different projects and was the creator of several comic heroes.
JOEVITO NUCCIO (Sambuca di Sicilia / Italy) – Artist on the Zagor series at the publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore (SBE). He is characterized by a detailed drawing, similar to the drawings by the designer of Zagor, Gallieno Ferri. He has worked on a relatively small number of Zagor episodes, precisely, because of the detailed drawing and other work, but every episode is little masterpiece.
BRANISLAV BANE KERAC (Novi Sad / Serbia) – One of the most successful and productive comic artists in these areas. Currently working in the SBE on the Zagor series. His work was published in a number of comic strips, editions and magazines. He is the creator of superhero Cat Claw, which is very well accepted in the rest of the world as well. The older audience knows him for his work on Tarzan, Blek and Cobra.
Saturday 9.12.2017.
10:00 – 19:00
– Exhibition of works by guest authors
– Exhibition of works by Gallieno Ferri (comic pages and covers of Zagor)
– Exhibition of works by attendees of MoStrip’s comic workshops
– Modelers’ exhibition
– MoStrip Info Desk with the festival promotional material
– Comic marketplace
12:00 – 12:30
– Opening ceremony of the 2nd Mostar Weekend Festival, the presentation of the festival and the Club MoStrip Association
– Presentation of the guests of the 2nd Mostar comic weekend (Moreno Burattini, Walter Venturi, Joevito Nuccio, Darko Perovic, Bane Kerac, Midhat Mido Kapetanović, Boris Talijančić, Stevan Subic, Milorad Vicanovic Maza, Renato Vladimir Renky and Enis Cisic)
12:30 – 14:30
– Drawing and signing by guest authors (Walter Venturi, Darko Perović, Renato Vladimir Renky, Stevan Subic and Enis Čišić)
14:30 – 15:30
– Tribune: All About Zagor (Moreno Burattini, Joevito Nuccio, Bane Kerac)
15:30 – 17:30
– Drawing and signing by guest authors (Joevito Nuccio, Bane Kerac, Midhat Mido Kapetanović, Boris Talijančić, Milorad Vicanović Maza)
17:30 – 18:30
– Forum and presentation of Adam Wild, Neretva Warrior, Bear Empress, Review on the work of MoStrip (Boris Talijančić, Darko Perović, Midhat Mido Kapetanović, Renato Vladimir Renky, Dalibor Nikolić Dala)
18:30 – 19:00
– Award ceremony for the best performers of the MoStrip comic workshops
– Exhibition of works by guest authors
– Exhibition of works by Gallieno Ferri (comic pages and covers of Zagor)
– Exhibition of works by attendees of MoStrip’s comic workshops
– Modelers’ exhibition
– MoStrip Info Desk with the festival promotional material
– Comic marketplace
– Drawing and signing by guest authors (Walter Venturi, Milorad Vicanovic Maza, Bane Kerac, Midhat Mido Kapetanović, Boris Talijančić)
13:30 – 14:00
– Forum and presentation of the releases : Le Storie, WunderWaffen, YU Tarzan, YU Blek (Stevan Subic, Enis Cisic, Milorad Vicanovic Maza, Bane Kerac)
14:00 – 16:00
– Drawing and signing by guest authors (Joevito Nuccio, Darko Perovic, Renato Vladimir Renky, Stevan Subic, Enis Cisic)
16:00 – 17:00
– Forum: The creator of Zagor Gallieno Ferri and the future of Zagor (Moreno Burattini, Walter Venturi, Joevito Nuccio)
17:00 – 18:00
– Drawing of prizes for festival visitors + drawing and signing