If you have Mathias Kollros’ “Captain Resilience” at your side, you no longer have to fear about disasters, crises and calamities of all kinds: the superhero is waiting for his next use. But the blue-violet Kraftlackl (to be seen in the gallery of the city of Traun) is only a facet of what comic artists under “What makes you strong-develop with comics development”. Under this motto, the Nextcomic Festival takes place from March 21 to 28. There are 33 exhibitions in Linz, Traun and Steyr with more than 200 artists from Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Romania.
“In times when there is a constant talk about wars and crises, we also want to deal with the topic and show that comics can offer solutions,” says Gottfried Gusenbauer. Together with Katharina Eight, the director of the caricature museum is headed by the Nextcomic Festival, one of the last remains of the Linz Capital of Culture 2009. Comics-or graphic novels, as they are called in specialist language-have long been more than superhero stories or fun entertainment for children, says Gusenbauer: “They have been in their complexity in the art scene.”
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Image: Herbert Schorn
Source: Nachrichten
