On the festive April first, at 4:00 PM, come to a creative comic book workshop
with artists Petar Stanimirov, Rumen Chaushev, Ivan Berov and writer-screenwriter Marin Troshanov.
We will draw together and discuss the process of creating illustrated stories – from the first word to the last stroke.
The event accompanies the Fourth National Exhibition of Bulgarian Comics.
Admission is free.
Petar Stanimirov is one of our most productive comic book artists. He worked for the original edition of the Daga (Rainbow) magazine from 1979 until its closure in 1992. During this time, he drew six series, including Bubachko, Yantar and Treasure Island. In the 1990s, he created the comic book periodical Stories in Pictures. Later, he founded the publishing houses Pulsar and Mega, through which game books are popularized in Bulgaria. For many years, he also worked in the gaming industry as an art director at the Haemimont studio. After 2010, together with colleagues from the Daga magazine, he participated in the founding of the Project Daga Association, through which new comic books began to be published, including Nad Dagata (Over the Rainbow) and the Arakel series.
Rumen Chaushev also worked for the original edition of the Daga magazine, for which he drew the series Yavor and The Girl from Earth. His drawing style and the stories in which he involves his characters Yavor and Alice are extremely recognizable and make them some of the most emblematic for the publication. In the early nineties, he drew the comic book Secret Under the Sea, and later illustrated numerous children’s books and textbooks. In 2010, he was a main driving force in the creation of the Project Daga Association and the revival of Bulgarian comics. Since then, he has drawn comics for the Nad Dagata publications, the Arakel and Vekovnitsi series. He has actively participated in the organization of over ten major comic exhibitions across the country.
Ivan Berov is an illustrator and animator. In his work, he is involved in the creation of scenarios, comics, storyboards, animated clips, interactive applications and games. He has participated in the creation of animation projects at Golpy studios and Zmey studio. He has drawn comics for the Komixer and Vekovnitsi publications. He has published stories in the third generation of the Daga magazine in 2022. He participated as a technical assistant on the Wormworld Saga comic series. Since 2021, he has served as deputy secretary of the comics section of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.
Marin Troshanov is a freelance writer and screenwriter. He works on various fantasy and journalistic works. He is the author of several very successful novels, including the trilogy Lamia Ltd and Emmy and the Shadow Thief. Together with Evgeni Proykov and the artist Petar Stanimirov in 2012 he created the comic Damga, which in a tough competition with 286 contenders from 29 countries won the award for best traditional comic at the international festival in Belgrade. In the next few years, again in collaboration with Petar Stanimirov and the screenwriter Anton Staykov, he created the series of children’s books about the Robot Chapek and his travels in space. They combine prose, illustration and comics in an innovative way for the Bulgarian market. Marin is the winner of the prestigious award of the National Palace of Culture, the National Book Center and the Peroto Literary Club in the Children’s Literature category (2019) and the national Konstantin Konstantinov award in the Author category (2020).