International Comics as Art

These are some comics from the International Cartoon Symposium in 1992. What I love about these comics is that they are radically different from what we, as Americans, have come to expect from comics. They are not silly little diversions. These are made by people often suffering real hardships, thinking deeply about the world, and transforming their pain and bewilderment into comics. They are funny and sincere and devastating. They are art.

Yuio Takeda, Japan



Veselin Borisic, Yugoslavia



Vasily Lazunko, Ukraine



Stefan Boros, Romania



Sergio Navarro, England



Rooshan Gataullin, Russia



Plantu, France



Pezo Ivica, Croatia



Dude from Peru



Man Yeuh, China



Nedyal Andrey, Ukraine



Mohamad Ali, Iran



Miodrag V. Djordjevic, Yugoslavia



Mileta Miloradovic, Yugoslavia



Louis Postruz, Australia



Dude from Egypt with a really long name



Lido Contemori, Italy



Kent Myers, USA



Kazanskij Anatolij, Ukraine



Jose Luis Martin Mena, Spain



Two dudes from Japan



Janko Rastevajaki, Bulgaria



Ivan Bechev, Bulgaria



Igor Smirnow, Russia



Heymans Patrick, Belgium



Heino Prunsvelt, Estonia



Fareed Wakhitov, Russia



Dude from Mexico with really long name



Dubosky Alexandr, Ukraine



Dong Jie, China



Cora Florin, Romania



Coppieters Jean-Pierre, Belgium