06 September 2012
Spoznajmo strip - razstave, delavnice, predavanja, izdaje, sejem, natečaj
30 January 2012
Call for submissions - Working Title, 2012 special issue of Stripburger
Gather all, ye scurvy comic scribblers, scratchers and drawers!
This year's special edition of Stripburger is dedicated to work in all its forms. Yes, the W-word.
In these turbulent times we're witnessing changes to the paradigm of work. Once it used to be a part of a daily survival strategy, then a way of expressing oneself, nowadays we cannot distinguish it from leisure time anymore. How can we define work in the first place? Is it a rational guided process aimed at some tangible goal, or is it any human activity where new things are created? Is it only paid labour, remunerated by a wage or salary, what about voluntary work? Is it the work that made the human species, or is it the other way around, that we as humans tend to put significance into our creative activities and call that work? What about art? Is an artist creating or working? What's the difference between these two terms in his or her case?
Many questions can be asked about the nature of work in our contemporary society. Due to the fleeting nature of its definitions we've assembled a list of terms, clues and starting points, all somehow connected to the concept of work, which could serve as sources of inspiration for you, dear artists, when you try to tackle this heavy issue. We're expecting socially engaged comics, but also intimate meditations on the issue of work, status and rights of workers, on the artist as a worker, then humorous submissions as well, even mischievous are most welcome! Let them not be politically correct, PC is for pussies, we're expecting full-blooded comics that will become often quoted referential material in the future, or at least fun to read!
Here are some starting ideas, feel free to (ab)use them:
- means of survival
- effort, toil
- a characteristic human need
- a necessary evil
- joke, fun, goofing-off
- »He who does not work, shall not eat as well!« - a Slovenian proverb
- work as godly activity – »creatio ex nihilo«
- work vs. Rest
- waiting for work: Unemployment office
- work vs. antiwork
- working at home
- manual vs. intellectual work
- taboo of work/banned work
- »a Sunday kind of work«
- »precarious, temporary, part-time, seasonal work
- workoholism
- internship
- strike/denial of work
- legal vs. illegal work (moonlighting, etc)
- voluntary work
- trade unions
- history of work
- exploitation of workers: sweatshops, slavery, forced/compulsory work
- gyms: "working out"
- the division of work/labour
- work and gender
- work and age
- work and sexuality (prostitutes and man-whores, etc)
- work today vs. work in the past (manufactories, guilds, etc)
- »Work less, create more!«
- stigmatisation of the non-working
- »gastarbeit« work: work by more or less temporary immigrant workers and
- whatever works for you
You're also kindly invited to work on some other related ideas as well.
A travelling exhibition is planned at the release of the anthology along with some other things like workshops etc …
Deadline for submissions: 31st May
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
the book will be sized: 235x170 mm
So send the works no smaller then A4 format(21x29,7 cm)
print: black and white
Length: up to 12 pages
Files should be:
- lineart: at least 600 dpi resolution, 240 mm height
- grayscale: at least 300 dpi resolution, 240 mm height
TO BE SENT TO:
burger@mail.ljudmila.org
Stripburger / Forum Ljubljana, Metelkova 6, SI – 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe
04 January 2012
STRIPBURGER #56 – ZA ZAHTEVNE GURMANE!

Zadnja letošnja številka Stripburgerja je končno med vami! Tokratna je bila zamišljena kot posvečena recepturam za »karkolivampadenapamet«, od igle do šivanke, a je ta ideja avtorje stripov precej selektivno navdihovala. Tako smo dobili nekaj stripov, ki se igrajo z idejo recepta, a ne dovolj, da bi tvorili samostojni blok. Kljub temu je številka dodobra naphana s kvalitetnimi in nasitnimi stripi s celega sveta.
Tema receptov očitno le privlači nekatere avtorje, začenši z avstrijskim Da Steffom in njegovim stripom iz Unkraut Comics 5.2 (Linz, 2011). Ta je bil del Unkrautove izdaje, posvečene hrani, in delno navdih za našo tokratno temo. Svojevrstna recepta sta nam prispevala še Francoz Vincent Lefebvre, ki ga objavljamo na barvnih straneh, in Darko Macan, dolgoletni »stripocentrik«, poznavalec stripa in stripovske scene tako doma na Hrvaškem kot na tujem, ki strip pozna do potankosti, saj je bil ali je še vedno tudi sam stripovski risar, scenarist, pisatelj, kritik in založnik. V dolgem intervjuju nam je razložil svoje poglede na strip in stripovsko ustvarjanje, še bolj nazoren pa je bil v svojem stripovskem receptu za uspeh, ki ga je narisal za to številko.
Teresa Camara Pestana in Sarah-Louise Barbett sta prispevali daljši zgodbi, ki se vrtita okrog tragične usode glavnega junaka, a vsaka na čisto svoj način. »Notorični« in družbeno kritični Peter Kuper, Stripburgerjev dolgoletni kontribuent, se postavlja z dvema krajšima stripoma, ki se lepo umeščata v sedanji čas in družbeno dogajanje, medtem ko Gašper Rus preko ene zelo osebne zgodbe prikazuje pokanje fasade klasičnih avtoritet. Objavljamo tudi PST, strip iz zanimive zbirke stripov ameriškega avtorja Josepha Lamberta, o kateri si lahko več preberete v recenzijah, saj se tokratna številka še posebej odlikuje po količini in kakovosti tekstovnih prispevkov.
V drugem hodu intervjujev objavljamo pogovor z Marjanom Mančkom, znanim slovenskim striparjem, ilustratorjem, karikaturistom in avtorjem nedavno izšle zbirke stripov Hribci kremeniti. Marsikdo med nami iz osnovnošolskih mladinskih revij dobro pomni Mančkove stripe o prazgodovinski praslovanski družini Hribcev. Mi smo jih zbrali v eni knjigi, za katero je avtor narisal še štiri nove stripe. Knjigo in intervju dopolnjujemo z objavo osmih stripov o Hribcih, ki so se zbirki izmuznili in ki jih lahko spet berete na straneh te številke.
Razgrnljivo naslovnico smo tokrat zaupali Mateju Stupici, ki se je tudi posvetil temi bloka in zakuhal brutalno začinjen hardkorovski k(g)olaž, medtem ko je strip za notranjo opremo platnic prispeval Rakhmad Dwi Septian iz daljne Indonezije.