Festival 20.-22.11.2020

Oulu ninth Comics Festival will be held November 20-22, 2020. Theme of the festival in this year is Comics for kids. The Main venues of the festival are:

Oulu City Library, and Comics Library Sarjasto (Kaarlenväylä 3)
Oulu Comics Center and Cultural Center Valve (Hallituskatu 7)

Check out the program of the Oulu Comics Festival 2020.

This exceptional year, the event will mainly be held in Finnish and for Finnish visitors. All english program is marked with EN sign. However, we are already looking to the future and have international guests in year 2021, from about seven countries…

We follow the Corona situation and build the festival accordingly. This year, most of the program will also be live streamed live from Oulu to the world and from the world to Oulu – whatever the situation.

Petteri Tikkanen is this year’s festival artist. Finnish Comics Society awarded him Puupäähattu Prize this year. http://www.petteritikkanen.com/

CAPITAL OF NORTHERN COMICS

Oulu is the city of panels. The center of Oulu is a historical grid plan area where you can come across with many different cultural experiences. The Oulu Comics Center has panels for every day to look, to read, to borrow, to buy and to draw. In the Comics Library, Sarjasto, you can experience panel filled moments and marvel on the spot or borrow and take home. Street art brings a riot of colors to the streets and fairways.

The Oulu Comics Festival fills the city with panels once again in this year. The festival is the largest annual comics event in the arctic region. City of Oulu is a lively and inspiring meeting place in the field of comics culture. This site offers a lot of information about Oulu region’s, northern Finland’s and Arctic region’s comics.

The website is maintained by Oulu Comics Center, which is part of the non-profit society Oulu Comics Association.

2020 @ Oulu Comics Center