Guido van Hengel

The project Pets or Pests? is a collaboration between Drawing the Times and comics artists Mark Schalken, Merel Barends, Tânia A. Cardoso, and author and historian Guido van Hengel. It tells the story of so-called pest animals and other liminal species.

Drawing the Times spoke with comics scholars Mathijs Peters and Yasco Horsman about the question: how does the autobiographical comic relate to the journalistic or the non-fiction comic, and what exactly is this concept of the ‘autographic gesture’?

The demonstrations in Serbia, which began in November 2024, have entered a new phase — shifting from peaceful walks and gatherings to a much grimmer situation.

The Cross Comix Festival 2025 takes place on Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September …

For eight months, people across Serbia have been protesting. Through illustrations, zines, and comics, artists have chronicled and mobilized the uprising.

Remix Comix is a European project for illustrators, performers and comics artists. A new books outlines the result of the project.