Safari Festival

A NEW WAVE OF ALTERNATIVE AND ARTS COMIC creators from the UK and beyond are meeting in London for the third annual Safari Festival on August 27th. Open to the public and free of charge, Safari Festival is a chance for attendees to experience the best of comics’ avant-garde and purchase original artwork and comics.

The 2016 international line-up features New York Times bestseller, Simon Hanselmann (Megahex), cartoonist Joan Cornellà (Zonzo) illustrator Laura Callaghan as well as publishers Fantagraphics, Decadence Comics, One Beat Zines and founders of the festival, Breakdown Press.

“The artists exhibiting have been selected for their innovative, fearless and diverse approach to making comics and we are here to champion that,” founder Tom Oldham commented. “Our third year sees artists and publishers from throughout the UK, Europe and Northern America-we’re incredibly proud and honoured to have their presence”.

Free to attend, the festival will take place at Studio Two, the Shoreditch gallery space of creative agency, Protein, on the 27th August and feature DJ sets from Will Sweeney, Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur) and Mat Colegate (The Quietus/Teeth of the Sea). The Safari after-party at the Shackewell Arms in Dalston is headlined by Totally.

Breakdown Press is an independent comics publisher based in London, dedicated to producing and promoting the very best comics art including new talent and undiscovered classics of the past.