The seventh Oulu Comics Festival offered more than a hundred separate happenings to the audience to enjoy. Year 2018 festival program was consisted with lectures, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, master classes, music events and multiple other versatile activity\u2019s. Two completely new event; Comics Pitching and Sprint Strip Finnish Championship 2018 were also launched at the festivals. The Main venues of Oulu Comics Festival 2018 were Oulu City Library, comics library Sarjasto, Cultural Center Valve and Oulu Comics Center.<\/p>\n
Oulu Comics Festival 2018 festival artist was Tessa Astre.<\/p>\n
Guest artists and speakers in festival were: Martin Ernstsen (Norway), Sigbj\u00f8rn Lilleeng (Norway), Matti Elftorp (Sweden), S\u00f8ren Mosdal (Denmark), Stine Spedsbjerg (Denmark), Cara Bean (USA), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Jarkko Vehni\u00e4inen (Finland), Marja Lappalainen (Finland), Pauli Kallio (Finland), Juho Sihvonen Finland), Veli-Matti Ural (Finland), Esa Niskanen (Finland), Sami Nyyss\u00f6l\u00e4 (Finland), Wolf Kankare (Finland), Ville Ranta (Finland), Lauri Ahtinen (Finland), Jussi Hukkanen (Finland), Tessa Astre (Finland), Aapo Kukko (Finland) and Avi Heikkinen (Finland).<\/p>\n
The fifth Oulu Nordic Comics Competition was themed \u201cLight\u201d, and it searched new cartoon-based light artworks. The competition was open to all comic artists and writers born and currently living in Nordic and Baltic Countries. The winners were selected by an international judging panel: Cara Bean (USA), Lauri Ahtinen (FIN) and Veli-Matti Ural (FIN).
\nThe prized artworks were composed at an installation, which was published at the Oulu Comics Festival. The presentation was part of the Lumo Light Festival.<\/p>\n
I Prize: Mirva Gr\u00f6nqvist<\/strong>: Se, jolla onni on \/ It, who has happiness Several Master Classes were held during the 2018 Oulu Comics Festival. Norwegian comic artist Sigbj\u00f8rn Lilleeng organized a Master Class which put the focus on flow and readability on the page. During the festival week, a residence artist Cara Bean (USA) organized Master Class in Liminka School of Arts. Also, on sunday 25.11.2018 the audience took a look in the current state of Finnish comics research with Katja Kontturi (PhD, Contemporary Culture Studies), Jyrki Korpua (PhD, Literature) and Harri Filppa (MA, graphic design).<\/span><\/p>\n In 2018 Comics Pitching, ten national and foreign comic artist had an opportunity to introduce their ideas and projects to a jury, which consisted of representatives of numerous publishing houses.<\/span><\/p>\n The Sprint Strip Finnish Championship was originally founded at Kemi Arctic Comics Festival and it was organised thirteen times during the years 2002-2012. In the year 2018, the Sprint Strip Finnish Championship was added first time in Oulu Comics Festival program, and it was co-organised with Kemi Comics Center and North Finnish cultural magazine Kaltio. The prizes for the winners were presented by Kaltio.<\/span><\/p>\n Comics Oasis was open 24th November from 11 am to 7 pm at the Oulu City Library. In present were 29 exhibitors, including Turku Comic Shop, publishers, independent artist, communities and zinemakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The seventh Oulu Comics Festival offered more than a hundred separate happenings to the audience to enjoy. Year 2018 festival program was consisted with lectures, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, master …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":78,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930\/revisions\/4530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oulucomics.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nII Prize: Juliana Hyrri<\/strong>: Kipin\u00e4 \/ Spark
\nIII Prize: Laura Torvinen<\/strong>: Valo \/ Light
\nHonorary mention: Suvi Tirronen<\/strong>: Valohoito \/ Light Cure
\nHonorary mention: Apila Pepita<\/strong>: Kasurilan Peikko \/ Kasurila Troll<\/p>\nMaster classes<\/h3>\n
Comics Pitching<\/h3>\n
The Sprint Strip Finnish Championship 2018<\/h3>\n
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Comics Oasis<\/h3>\n
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Oulu Comics Festival 23.-25.11.2018<\/h3>\n