Kategorie: Illustration

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SOUTH KOREA: Gwangju – Juan Museum of Art – Exhibition „Toon Topia“ – GOLD, JBRAWING, SEONEUL & SOONBOMB

From March 3rd to June 2nd 2025, a fantastic exhibition was held at the JUAN MUSEUM OF ART in the Dong-gu district of Gwangju, featuring drawn animation from various genres and the four local artists GOLD, JBRAWING, SEONEUL and SOONBOMB show a selection of their works. The exhibition space is located in the basement of a café, with a commercial food court upstairs and a creative comic world downstairs.  It’s a small creative art space, but with continously interesting presentations, especially for mangas, comics, abstracts and graffiti.

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SOUTH KOREA: Daegu – VØID GALLERY – Exhibition Vol. 4 – Black Comics – HONG JONGGI

The great drawing artist and illustrator HONG JONGGI presents from 12nd May till 30th July 2025 a special collection of his artworks in the solo exhibition „Black Comics“ at the VØID GALLERY in Daegu. This is the 4th creative venue in this art space. If you are around the city during that time, be sure not to miss it. There are several pieces on the walls from series made during the previous years like „The Villains“ or „Motorcycle Diaries“ and also animated drawing videos are shown on projection screens.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town Urban Artist, Designer, Illustrator and Character Creator – WAYNE BKS

Today our creative information journey goes to South Africa and into Cape Town. Some time ago we visited this great place and especially for the streetart fans the neighborhood Woodstock is highly recommended. You can find grandiose works of art behind every corner. And behind one of these corners we came across the art of Wayne Bks for the first time. The photos we took of it should cause to a bigger story this year. Check out the interview with the fantastic artist!

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USA: Photographer, Digital Collagist and Streetart Hunter Caley Costley aka Bob Bleu

Caley Costley aka Bob Bleu is a street art photographer and art lover from Los Angeles who also creates wonderful works of art herself as a digital artist. The creative artist is part of the Vagabundler Collective and works on the map for the Californian city Los Angeles. but as well she creaties beautiful collages in her own comic style. In doing so, she often makes herself a comic figure and combines photographs that have been taken with these digital gimmicks. The result is interesting, colorful and warm-hearted, as well she often tries to draw attention to socially relevant issues through those creative messages.

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ITALY: Fantastic Painter Claudio Parentela – Abstract Mixed Media Experiments – Collages, Comics & Drawings

The works of the Italian artist Claudio Parentela from Catanzaro are basically a creative combination of a multitude of works of art. In turn, he often created these parts individually himself. In other words, pictures were painted, photos taken, cutouts sawn, glued or stapled from a wide variety of materials. But pages from catalogs, objects from the garbage or the last purchase receipt can also be integrated. Everything is possible with Claudio and he is particularly fascinated by the absurd and the unthinkable. The central drive and the fundamental theme of his art is freedom.

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ITALY: Art Project Turin – „Spazio Portici – Creative Paths“ – Open Call till 4th April for 2022 Edition

„Spazio Portici – Creative Paths“ is a project of the City of Turin, Creative Turin and the Contrada Torino Onlus Foundation. The goal is to open spaces for artistic expression under the arcades of the city, focusing attention on the enhancement of creativity with a particular focus on youth. Along the 12 kilometers of arcades will develop over time installations, exhibitions, temporary exhibitions, artistic happenings in order to create a traveling visual path that will help give new life to the arches and to value creativity. Check out the great creations from the first 36 artists. Till 4th April there is as well an Open Call for the 2022 edition.

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ITALY: Streetart Turin – Mole Antonelliana – Photocall – Actors and actresses of Italian Cinema

The National Museum of Cinema, in collaboration with the University of Turin, pays tribute to cinema of the past and present. The photographic exhibition, which is taking place from 20th July 2021 till 7th March 2022, retraces over a century of Italian cinema through the bodies and the faces of the actresses and actors who have made it famous throughout the world. A journey down memory lane, back in time: the flashback begins with today’s stars of the silver and small screen and ends with the icons of silent cinema.

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USA: Marc Kennedy, Crumb Catcher & The Thick Un’s – Poster Projects & Pop Up Markets

Since the last interview with fantastic artist Marc Kennedy here on Vagabundler the founder of Crumb Catcher and The Thick Un’s continued to develop and grow. He definitely has done many more of his special creative and funny collages. As well he adapted his art on canvas prints and posters, he started doing cool pop-up markets with full tables, released a concept album with corresponding lyric book and added three new words to the English language! Check out the news from Marc Kennedy!

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JAPAN: Shinichi Yoshitomi´s nostalgic Movie-Adventure-Shop – Mangas, Animies and Superheroes

Comic fans and manga connoisseurs will surely understand the next one. In Okoyama we were amazed with the greatest anime in its original form, scripts in Japanese, and a wealth of unique footage and impassioned smorgasbord. By chance we found the store „Movie Adventure Shop“ by SHINICHI YOSHITOMI in a side street. Especially the original soundtrack of Battleship Yamato immediately got us hooked and we discovered a small gold mine with collectors‘ treasures from 40 years of film and comic history.

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