Thursday 9 March, 6.30pm

Exhibition Launch

Meet Max de Radiguès

Alliance Française (La Cocotte)
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Illustrators Ireland and The Comics Lab brings together
the most promising indie comics makers from throughout
the island of Ireland to perform live readings of their short comics. The experience is a fully immersive story telling
event that combines music, sound design, projected
illustration and live performance in what feels like a
cross between theatre and animation.

Featuring: Sarah Bowie, Eoin Coveney, Alan Dunne, Katherine Foyle, Debbie Jenkinson, Paddy Lynch, Elida Maiques, Stephen Maurice Graham, Ale Mercado, David McClelland, Fintan Taite

ADMISSION FREE
Booking essential

Come and join us on a very special evening for the
opening of the Highlights of the Belgian Comic Strip
put together by the Belgian Comic Strip Centre.
At this occasion, we are honoured to welcome Belgian
illustrator and author Max de Radiguès, whose works
will be part of the show.

After introducing the project, Deputy Director of
the Belgian Comic Strip Centre Tine Anthony will
give the floor to Max de Radiguès, who will present his
work and participate in a Q&A with the public.


ADMISSION FREE
Booking essential

Sarah Bowie     website  |  twitter  |  behance

Founding member of The Comics Lab, Sarah is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, originally from Dublin, recently returned from a residency in La Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, a centre of excellence for comics in France.

Co-creator of The Alienist, an original series for 2000AD, for which he has been contributing (drawing Judge Dredd among others), Eoin has also worked for many international publishers, such as Harper-Collins, Dorling-Kindersley, Usbourne, Pearson and Oxford University Press.

Alan Dunne     website  |  facebook  |  behance

Illustrator based in Dublin, Alan creates comics that deal with the universality of the human experience, social observation, interesting set-ups and atmospheric scene setting. Alongside illustration, he also works as a motion designer for RTÉ and was shortlisted for the Jonathan Cape / Comica / Observer Graphic Short competition twice; in 2014 for his graphic short comic piece Collage and again in 2016 for his short comic Folly.

Stephen Maurice Graham     website  |  twitter  |  instagram  |  behance

Stephen is an illustrator and comic artist from Belfast. He currently writes a weekly comic for Vice.com about the exploits of a man-child named Michael.

Katherine Foyle     website  |  twitter

Katherine Foyle is a TV and video editor based in Dublin, who is passionate about telling small stories well in every medium she can. Like her creations, she is a work-in-progress.

Co-founder of the Comics Lab, Debbie’s comics explore the triumphs and frustrations of ordinary life, failed romances, overfed cats and the inner lives of office workers feature again and again.

Founding member of the Comics Lab, Paddy is a cartoonist, educator and graphic designer whose work embraces and explores the complicated and often contradictory experiences that make us tick and reveal who we truly are.

Elida is a visual artist with a strong line in comics. She is originally from Spain, based in Dublin since 2003. Several of Elida’s comics are bilingually functional, with separate hand-lettered text in both English and Spanish. Her comics work is often small-run limited edition comics and handmade books. Her main vehicle for these is Slow, a series of fold-out mini-comics containing assorted shorter strips, however her work also appears in Polen magazine, the publications of Plutón CC, RíRá, etc. Something she loves: teaching Visual Storytelling in Marino College.

Alé draws stories in rural Ireland. He used to do that in cities, but that is a distant memory now. He is surrounded by cattle that do not appreciate his skills; but that never stopped him. When he is not drawing, he likes to talk of himself in third person to the cows.

David (working as David Creative) is an illustrator and designer who lives and works in Belfast. As an artist, he creates his own musical compositions which he then uses as a source narrative to create visual short stories.

Max de Radiguès is a comic book author and editor at L’employé du Moi. He writes and draws for young people and adults. His book Moose was selected for the Eisner Awards 2016. In 2009, he was invited to a one-year residency at the prestigious Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. He recounted his experiences during his year of residence in his book Pendant ce temps à White River Junction published by Six Pieds sous Terre, which was part of the official selection of the 2012 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Some of his projects, such as L’âge dur and Original, appear in monthly fanzines sent by post to readers before being published as books. Bâtard is the latest series that the author has created with a new episode released every month. He works in a workshop in Brussels, where Flemish, French, and Swiss designers mix.