The Nabokov Museum
ul. Bolshaya Morskaya, 47 (m. Admiralteyskaya)
+7 (812) 315-47-13, www.nabokovmuseum.org
Opening hours: tue-fri 11.00-18.00, sat-sun 12.00-17.00, mon closed

September 27 – October 12

Ilya Obukhov was born in Leningrad in 1985. He graduated from the Architectural University. His first comics were published in 2005 in RIP magazine. In 2010, he created a series of socio-political comic strips City Sketches for the site of the newspaper Business Petersburg. In 2012 he published his book Imaginary Friend. During ten years of creative activity Ilya took part in many exhibitions and led a large number of workshops. In 2011, Ilya Obukhov and Vladimir Lopatin etsablished a creative publishing duo Live Bubbles, which is engaged in book publishing and promotion of comics.

obuhov_i.livejournal.com

Small Hall of Manege
nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad)
+7 (812) 312-25-54, www.manege.spb.ru
Opening hours: wed 14.00-21.00, thu-sun 14.00-20.00, mon-tue closed

September 26 – October 12

Aisha Franz was born in 1984. She graduated from the Department of comics and illustration at the Academy of Art and Design in Kassel. Her first publications came out while she was still studying, released by the independent publishing house Rotopolpress, as well as by her own fanzine My Own Press. Later her works were included in the international comics anthologies KU(Ŝ) and Orang. In 2011, the publishing house Reprodukt published her first book, Alien; in 2012 came out the second one, Brigitte. Her books have been translated and released in France, Italy and Spain, and this fall the publishing house Drawn & Quarterly is releasing an English-language edition. At the moment Aisha is living and working in Berlin.

www.fraufranz.com

Small Hall of Manege
nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad)
+7 (812) 312-25-54, www.manege.spb.ru
Opening hours: wed 14.00-21.00, thu-sun 14.00-20.00, mon-tue closed

September 26 – October 12

Galya Panchenko was born in Kiev, where she graduated from the University of Construction and Architecture in 2001. In 2010, she enrolled in the Illustration Department of the High School of Applied Arts in Hamburg (HAW). Her teachers were well-known authors of comics – Anke Feuchtenberger, Stefano Ricci and Markus Huber. It was there that she began to study comics and use various techniques to create them. Besides that, she illustrates children’s books and creates children’s games. Galya is a member of three illustration agencies and regularly draws for magazines in Russia, France and Germany.

cargocollective.com/evarevolver

Small Hall of Manege
nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad)
+7 (812) 312-25-54, www.manege.spb.ru
Opening hours: wed 14.00-21.00, thu-sun 14.00-20.00, mon-tue closed

September 26 – October 12

Polina Mitiaeva was born in 1985 in Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic. In 2013, she graduated from the department of metal art at Stieglitz Academy and is now working in this sphere at a studio in Moscow. Also, she creates sculpture, leads workshops in jewelry design and illustrates children’s books. She started drawing comics when she came to study in St. Petersburg, inspired by picture stories based on the stories of Daniil Kharms that were exhibited at one of the Boomfest festivals. Polina repeatedly took part in the festival’s competition program and won the Grand Prix in 2013.

Small Hall of Manege
nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad)
+7 (812) 312-25-54, www.manege.spb.ru
Opening hours: wed 14.00-21.00, thu-sun 14.00-20.00, mon-tue closed

September 26 – October 12

Traditionally, the festival includes a competition of comics. Every year we receive about 200 works from around the world. This time the theme of the competition is Neighbours. The artists were asked to draw a completed story of not more than 3 pages. The child and adolescent age group will have one winner. In the adult section, 3 winners will be selected in the categories Best Story, Best Graphics and Grand Prix. Grand Prix winners are given the opportunity to present a personal exhibition at the next festival.