First Comic & Arts Festival in Istanbul

ISTANBUL

The Istanbul Comics & Art Festival (ICAF) will be held for the first time this year at the St. Joseph Social Club in the city’s Moda neighborhood. The festival will take place from Sept. 23-25 and feature the most prominent cartoonists, comic books, animations, illustrations, graffiti artists and alternative performing artists.

The participants of the festival will discover the old and new values of the world of illustration from the city’s best comic book stores and publishers, as well as collectors’ special selections. 

For those who love trying something different, there will also be all-day-long hip-hop, funk and R&B performances on the ICAF stage.

At the Poolside Animation Night Zone there will be a selection of Turkish and international animation works.

Also, professionals will teach about anything that piques the curiosity in comic book workshops, paper sculpture art, 3D printing and all other things regarding illustrative arts. Among these professionals will be a number of well-known artists, including Erdil Yaşaroğlu and Selçuk Erdem. 

Tickets for the festival are available at Biletix.