Hungarian Comics Association is a group of active civilians and the related Ninth Art Foundation is a legal body dedicated to promote comics culture in Hungary.
Our Goals
- to advocate comics as a unique art form
- to change associations of comics that still prevail in Hungary
- to create opportunities for contemporary Hungarian comics artists and audiences to meet.
What We Do
- We organize events – an International Comics Festival in May each year and a comics fair called Hungarocomix in December.
- We organize exhibitions.
- We support the international presence of Hungarian comics artists and specialists – in cooperation with cultural institutions.
- We support the invitation of international comics artists and specialists to Hungary – in cooperation with cultural isntitutions.
- We hold lectures on comics for cultural institutions, schools, business partners.
- We hold comics workshops for various age groups and level of dedication.
- We support that comics is engaged with in secondary education, we support teachers who use comics in their classrooms.
- We take part in the academic study of comics in Hungary.
- We are dedicated toward the institutionalization of comics in Hungary.
Contact Us
You can contact Eszter Szép, head of the foundation, and Zsófia Demus, member of the board at the following address:
kepregenyszovetseg AT gmail DOT com