Many thanks for the support by the Latvian Consulate in St. Petersburg and to Dima and his crew for inviting us there!
Here's the colorful 2013 festival report from our global comics correspondents Laura Ķeniņš and Sabīne Moore:
The Boomfest mascot was happy to make new friends
Exhibition opening of Dutch artists including kuš! contributors Jeroen Funke and Dace Sietiņa.
The Dutch exhibitions continued at another venue where Sabine decided to walk into the walk-in comic book.
This was followed by an after-party
where German artist Henning Wagenbreth performed (as well as
exhibited).
The next morning we were treated to a
comics brunch with exhibitions by Tom Gauld, Varvara Pomidor, Francois
Ayroles and kuš! contributor Oleg Tischenkov, who also brought his
cats to the gallery.
We saw more cats, including a surprising reference to the Black Cat's House in Old Riga, Latvia.
Everything else was grey in St. Petersburg.
More fruits, in fruit-shaped cages.
Laura's submission to the the Boom Fest
comic competition, themed 'Traditions'.
Opening of Nobrow's exhibition of
prints.
The Kuš! Table and Astro Banana
At one of the parties the power went
out but everyone was too busy drawing to notice.
We got to meet up with Laura's friends
and compatriots from Koyama Press in Canada, who were staying with
this lovely host.
On the final night of the festival
everyone enjoyed a dinner together and we decided to make a mini
drink-and-draw:
A great account!
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