The evening round of Q&A’s will see conversations with Supertoon guests from the field of comic art who are participating in the Supertoon comics competitons. Moderator Matko Vladanović will talk to the jury members in addition to 18 artists and editors over the course of three evening, providing context for their work which will be displayed at the group show in St. Krševan Gallery and the comic book fair at Đardin.
Tuesday 22. 7. / 21.00:
– Pisačić Matija – Croatia – Psycho Moon Space Abbey
– Anamarija Kvas – Croatia – Mutare
– Iztok Sitar – Slovenia – Girl’s eyes
– Damir Ercegović – Croatia – The adventures of Fabien Puh
– Josip Sršen – Croatia – The Wild Grammarian
Wednesday 23. 7. / 21.00:
– Lea Kralj Jager – Croatia – OHOHOzin #07
– Saša Paprić – Croatia – Strip-PREFIKS #6
– Tome Trajkov – North Macedonia – Comic Creator #38
Thursday 24. 7. / 21.00:
– Vinko Barić – Croatia – Majdan s Garage
– Andre Vrdoljak – South Africa – Crawley Wood
– Sofija Pašalić – Serbia – It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s not bad at all
– Maja Perak, Vasje Irme Ivković – Croatia – Uncollected writings
– Nora Magaš, Karlo Senta, Bruno Dorkić – Croatia – Between the lines
Pia Nikolič was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is an editor of the magazine Megafon and has her talk show (In vivo veritas) and show about film (Iiin … Akcija!) on Megafon TV. She is a sociologist, who started to work in the field of comics in 2013, when she started the only radio show about comics in Slovenia (Stripofilija at Radio Študent Ljubljana), which she still edits today. This is also the year she started to write reviews of comics, do the interviews and other articles about comics, which she already published in Mladina, Literatura, Apokalipsa, Stripburger, Ekran, etc. She is a member of the organizational board of monthly events about comics in Kino Šiška (Razlita Tinta) and all three Slovene comic festivals (Festival stripa Tinta Ljubljana, Festival of Fantasy and Comics Grossmann, Celje Comic Festival). She was also participating in round tables and with lectures at Zagreb festival of comics and street art (OHOHO) and Balkanska smotra mladih strip autora (Leskovac). She is also the founder of Comic Ccorner at Slovene Book Fair and a counselor for the award Golden Pear for quality books for children and youth. Occasionally she lectures to librarians all over Slovenia, who cooperate in the project Reading Badge. From the beginning, she is coordinating the main award for comics in Slovenia Zlatirepec, which she connected to the international award for translation in comics Sophie Castille Award, which is going to be handed out in Slovenia for the first time this year. She is a president of Slovene Association of Comics and Similar Sequential Art Packa, with which she already organized an exhibition of Slovene comics, cooperated in international 24-hour drawing of comics for two times already, organized comic olympic games on air at Radio Student, comic quiz, etc. Since 2017 she has been directing live comics, with which she invented a special form of synchronization of one comic panel at the time (which is displayed on a big screen) with a group of radio moderators who play roles and a technician who takes care of foleys, atmospheres and music. With seven different live comic events they have been performing all over Slovenia, in Zagreb and in October they will perform in Berlin. She is also regularly lecturing, leading workshops and round tables in the field of comics.
