The library of foreign literature for children (branch №3 of the Pushkin library)
ul. 3 sovetskaya, 8, entrance from the yard (m. Ploshchad Vosstaniya)
+7 (812) 275-53-10, www.pushkinlib.spb.ru
Opening hours: mon-sat 11.00-18.00, sun closed

September 18 – October 11

Tove Jansson is a famous Finnish artist and writer. This year, she would have turned 100 years old. She is most popular for her stories about the Moomins. She created illustrated novels, comic strips and picture books about these characters. The first story about the Moomins was published in 1945 and the first comic strip appeared in the Finnish newspaper Ny Tid in 1947. In 1954 she started to create comics in English for The Evening News. Today these works are reprinted all around the world; the stories and the characters have inspired several animated films and a wide collection of toys; in Finland there is a park and a museum dedicated to the Moomins.

www.tovejansson.com

© Moomin Characters™

Zoom café
ul. Goroknovaya, 22 (m. Nevskiy prospekt, Sennaya ploshchad’)
+7 (812) 612-13-29, www.cafezoom.ru
Opening hours: mon-fri 09.00-24.00, sat 11.00-24.00, sun 13.00-24.00

September 18 – October 12

Ekaterina Khozatskaya was born in Leningrad in 1986. She graduated from the architecture department of the Repin Academy of Arts. In 1999 she had her first solo exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin. She currently engages in various types of painting, including murals and illustrations. Her works were published in magazines such as The Hermitage, Afisha, Management of Growth. One of the most prominent topics in her work is St. Petersburg bars and cafes, the drawings of which are regularly published in the public group in VKontakte Between the Bars. Ekaterina is a participant of the international community Urban Sketchers and a member of the graphics section of the Union of Artists.

www.flickr.com/photos/bogema

Master gallery
ul. Mayakovskogo, 41/ul. Ryleeva, 6 (m. Chernyshevskaya, Mayakovskaya)
+7 (812) 640-77-37, www. masterclassfund.ru
Opening hours: tue-sun 12.00-19.00, mon closed

September 20 – October 5

Haydé Ardalan was born in 1956 in Cologne in the family of Iranian diplomats. She graduated from Lausanne Academy of Visual Arts. For a long period of time Haydé worked at the magazine L’Hebdo as an illustrator. In 1997, she published her first book about the black-and-white cat, Milton, which immediately received the award The Most Beautiful Book in Switzerland. Now the series about Milton includes eight picture books, three of which were published in Russian, and one comic strip book. At her workshop in Lausanne Haydé engages in painting, creating posters for the Theatre for Young Spectators and regularly works on children-oriented and other social projects.

Master gallery
ul. Mayakovskogo, 41/ul. Ryleeva, 6 (m. Chernyshevskaya, Mayakovskaya)
+7 (812) 640-77-37, www. masterclassfund.ru
Opening hours: tue-sun 12.00-19.00, mon closed

September 20 – October 5

Marc Boutavant was born in 1970. He works in illustration and has designed more than a dozen books for publishers such as Gallimard, Nathan, Actes Sud, Seuil and others. Besides that he creates illustrations for the company Djeco, a manufacturer of children’s toys. In 2002, Mark came up with his own world and created Mouk – the main character of a series of picture books, that later served as basis for popular cartoons. For over 10 years Mark has been collaborating with Emmanuel Guibert, the author of the graphic novel The Photographer, on the children’s comic strip series Ariol, which was also adapted into animated series.

Master gallery
ul. Mayakovskogo, 41/ul. Ryleeva, 6 (m. Chernyshevskaya, Mayakovskaya)
+7 (812) 640-77-37, www. masterclassfund.ru
Opening hours: tue-sun 12.00-19.00, mon closed

September 20 – October 5

This married couple – graphic artist Andrey (b.1961) and colorist Natalia (b.1966) – have started collaborating in 1989 as part of the first Russian comics club Com. Young artists drew comics and learned from the works of European masters. The first story of their comic strip series Keshka was published in January of 1991 in the weekly newspaper Family. In 1993, the publishing house Photofilm released 48-page color comic book Keshka. Extraordinary Stories About an Ordinary Cat. Later these comics were published in dozens of magazines and newspapers, and in the last 2 years the publishing house KompasGid has published four books about the adventures of Keshka.

Bookstore of writers
Nevsky pr. 66 (m. Gostiny Dvor)
Opening hours: mon-sun 11.00-23.00

September 21 – October 5

Olga Lavrenteva was born in 1986 in Leningrad. In 2011, she received a master’s degree in Graphic Design from St. Petersburg State University. Olga engages in graphics and comics, experiments with different techniques, combining collage and drawing with a brush. In 2012, she made a graphic report dedicated to the high-profile political trial of the National Bolsheviks, members of the party The Other Russia. In 2014 this project resulted in publication of the book The Trial of Twelve. For three years she worked on a series of comic books about modern unrecognized states, which combine absurdity, courage, talent and madness.

www.behance.net/olga_lavrenteva

Art centre Nevsky 8
Nevskiy pr. 8 (m. Admiralteyskaya)
+7 (812) 314-80-81, www.nevsky8.com
Opening hours: mon-sun 11.00-21.00

September 25 – October 12

Marc Bell was born in 1971. He is well known in the world of underground comics and contemporary art. Drawing, collage, painting – he uses a variety of techniques in his work, both separately and mixing them. His comics and illustrations have been published since the early 90s in many fanzines, periodical publications (The Montreal Mirror, The Halifax Coast, Vice Magazine) and anthologies (Kramers Ergot, The Ganzfeld). In 2009, the publishing house Drawn & Quarterly released the monograph Hot Potatoe, which brought together Marc’s various visual experiments, or, as the author calls them, Fine Ahtwerks.

marcbelldept.blogspot.com

The library of book graphics & comics (the Lermontov library system)
ul. 7 krasnoarmeyskaya, 30, entrance from the yard, code 150 (m. Tekhnologicheskiy institut)
+7 (812) 575-16-34, www.lermontovka-spb.ru
Opening hours: mon-fri 12.00-20.00, sat 10.00-18.00, sun closed

September 26 – October12

Thomas Ott was born in 1966. He graduated from the Academy of Art and Design in Zurich. In the late 80s he started to work in comics and illustration. Thomas uses scratchboard technique – scratching images on a special cardboard covered in black ink. His works were featured in many newspapers and magazines in Switzerland, Germany and France. Most comics created by Thomas Ott do not have words, which allows them to be understood in any country of the world. His books are released in different countries by the largest publishers of comics – Edition Moderne, L’Association, Fantagraphics and others.

www.tott.ch

The library of book graphics & comics (the Lermontov library system)
ul. 7 krasnoarmeyskaya, 30, entrance from the yard, code 150 (m. Tekhnologicheskiy institut)
+7 (812) 575-16-34, www.lermontovka-spb.ru
Opening hours: mon-fri 12.00-20.00, sat 10.00-18.00, sun closed

September 26 – October12

The Tzeh illustrators’ community was formed in 2006 and is comprised of 70 Russian-speaking illustrators from around the world. The members of Tzeh have joined forces for over 20 projects. MU is Tzeh’s first series of pair collaborations. It is dedicated to Mu also known as Lemuria – a lost, probably fictional continent, located either in the Pacific, Indian, or Atlantic ocean. The works form a book, screen printed in four spot colors by Galereya Pechati publishing house.

www.tzeh.ru

Illustration by Sergey Pervushin & Varvara Alay

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

Ben Katchor was born in 1951. His works are often classified as the second wave of American underground comics. He calls his work picture-stories. Ben began his career in the early 80’s in the cult magazine RAW, which was produced by Art Spiegelman. His hand-drawn illustrations and stories were published in magazines such as The New Yorker and Metropolis, as well as in many American newspapers. Most of his books were published by the famous publisher Pantheon. Besides comics Ben engages in musical theater along with Mark Mulcahy. Ben Katchor lives in New York and teaches at Parsons New School for Design.

www.katchor.com