Komikaze
Ivana Armanini, the main editor and founder, says about Komikaze:
“Komikaze” is a network for spreading the virus of authorial comics. It is distributed by an electronic, printed or direct way. The goal is to connect the comics activists for exchange and production of comics – the product. Exhibitions, workshops, and other promotional events are part of the program to search for new talents. ‘Komikaze’ provides organized (unarmed) resistance against the progressive globalization of taste and increasingly institutionalized artistic production. Program ‘komikaze’ is made of free and altruistic activities, which connects people linked by an independent and uncompromising attitude, called the alternative, in relation to the current artistic practice that dominates. Partner and spatial priorities are related to non-profit autonomous zones of culture.
The “virus” officially invaded the internet for the first time on May 25th, 2002. The network gathers hundreds of authors from 20 countries who are permanently archived at www.komikaze.hr Komikaze has published 20 Komikaze books on-line, 7 printed albums, 2 author albums (D. Janković, I. Armanini), 2 CDs, 30 webzines of workshop comics, and 20 photocopied fanzines. Komikaze has organized about 130 exhibitions and held about 30 workshops in Croatia, France, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Germany. Since it is about organically connected work, all phases are equally important.”
It is worth noting that Komikaze intensively cooperates in their activities with Serbian authors (Studiostrip, Wostok…) and with authors from all over the region in terms of mutual publishing, collaboration, joint workshops, and exhibitions.
