The Bucheon Worldwide Comics Competition (BICOF) is ready to open in early October in Bucheon, a western suburb of Seoul, showcasing all kinds of Korean comics, which have grow to be a central a part of the nation’s cultural exports.
The twenty seventh annual competition, themed “Manhwa! Extensive Open,” will run from Oct. 3-6, providing various packages permitting comics fans to work together with famend creators. Manhwa is the Korean time period for comics.
Webtoon creators Website positioning I-reh and Namon, whose work “Jeong Nyeon” received the Grand Prize at this yr’s Bucheon Comics Awards, together with rookie award winners Noh Gyeong-mu and Sokee of the comedian “How To Get Your Man Pregnant,” will have interaction with readers, amongst others.
The BICOF may also function talks by Italian comedian artist Tanino Liberatore, identified for “Lucy L’Espoir,” and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, creator of the graphic novel “Grass.”
Notably, the competition will revive its comics marketplace for the primary time since 2018, aiming to advertise mental property of Korean comics to the worldwide market.
“The worldwide comics market has been revived,” mentioned Shin Jong-chul, president of the Korea Manhwa Contents Company. “I can confidently say international curiosity in Korean comics is exceptionally excessive, to the purpose the place they’re turning into central to Korean cultural merchandise.”
Moreover, the competition will function a particular comics exhibition to mark the a hundred and fortieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Italy. Officers from Napoli Comicon, the annual Italian comics competition, can be in attendance, and Italian creator and illustrator Tanino Liberatore, famend for RanXerox, may also maintain a reside drawing session. (Yonhap)
