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EAST COVER Pitchings
Is a series of meetings of central European artists with an international jury, which will judge projects of their comics.
The idea of those meeting is to promote the most interesting artist from our region. The meeting are short, 10-15-minutes long presentations of ideas for an album, series or a shorter comics form. The presentations may also be a mixed media presentation, a presentation of drafts or finished storyboards or a scenario. The jury of EAST COVER Pitchings 2010: J.A. Lent Dr. John A. Lent has been teaching mass communications at the university/college level since 1960. He has held the title of professor since 1976. In 2000, he was Rogers Distinguished Professor of Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has been guest professor at Shanghai University, professor /advisor of Ph.D. students at the Animation School of the Communication University of China, and visiting professor at Jilin College of the Arts Animation School and Nanjing Financial & Economics University, also in China.
His publications include 70 books and monographs he has authored or edited, most dealing with Asian mass communications and the first on Asian broadcasting, newspapers, film, popular culture, cartooning, animation, and media bibliography. He also pioneered in the study of Caribbean mass communications. Dr. Lent has interviewed about 600 cartoonists on every continent, including in 18 Asia-Oceania countries.
Dr. Lent is founder and editor of International Journal of Comic Art; he also edits Asian Cinema, and chairs the Asian Cinema Studies Society, the Asian Popular Culture Group of the Popular Culture Association, and the Comic Art Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research. He founded the latter two groups.
Since 2003, the International Comic Art Festival has sponsored the annual John A. Lent Scholarship Award to honor his services to the field; also, the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group and Berita, both of which he founded in 1975-1976, established a scholarship in his name. He has also received the Lifetime award from AMIC in Singapore for his pioneering research on Asian mass communication, and the John Buscema award for cartooning in Gijon, Spain.
He has served on animation and cartoon juries in about 15 countries; in 2007 and 2008, he was on the Pulitzer Prize jury for editorial cartoons. 
José Alaniz associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington - Seattle, is the author of "Komiks: Comic Art in Russia" (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). His research interests include Death and Dying, Disability Studies, Cinema, Eco-criticism and Comics Studies. His articles often appear in the International Journal of Comic Art. 
David Schilter David Schilter is a Swiss law graduate living and working in Latvia, the land that sings. Together with Zane Zajanckauska and other locals he founded the first Latvian comics magazine "kuš!" in 2007. Since then he is regularly organising comics workshops and exhibitions in and around Latvia and as long as they don't change their official slogan to "the land that draws" he will keep working on it. 
Joachim Dvořák Czech editor and director of KOMIKSFEST! Prague Szymon Holcman Born in 1977. Graduated in Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Always a fan of comic books, they entered his professional life when he became a reviewer for “Przekrój” weekly. He’s also written on the subject for other magazines and authored a chapter on Polish comic book artists in the acclaimed dictionary of young Polish culture “Tekstylia Bis”. He relinquished the role of a comic book critic to become a comic book publisher. For the last 5 years he’s worked at Kultura Gniewu publishing house , which brings works by Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, Thomas Ott and many other foreign and local authors to Polish readers. 
Aritsts can apply to EAST COVER Pitchings till January 12th, 2010.
Only 18 artists will be chosen among all the applications and invited to take part in the EAST COVER Pitchings.
Will be reimbursed for the costs of travel to Poznań and will have an accommodation during the LIGATURA the Comic Culture Festival.
EAST COVER Pitchings will be held from the 5th till the 6th February, 2010 in the seat of Teatr Ósmego Dnia. The EAST COVER Pitchings catalogue will be available during the LIGATURA Festival. There you can find the profiles of all the selected artists of a given EAST COVER Pitchings edition. When the festival is finished, all the catalogues will be send out to organizers of comics’ festivals, publishers and editorial offices of comics magazines from all over the world. Entrance only for accredited guests invited by the organizers. |
