Saturday, 2 July 2011

Boris Efimov film

Russian Comics online

Russian online cartoon archive. With an English version.

http://www.comics.ru/index.htm

New Zealand Cartoon Archive

NZ's cartoon archive.

http://www.cartoons.org.nz/

Welcome to the British Cartoon Archive - The British Cartoon Archive - University of Kent

Новый Крокодил - New Krokodil

This seems to be the website of Novy Krokodil, although I haven't explored it fully yet.

http://www.crocodile.su/index.php

Comica: London International Comics Festival 2011

A very interesting looking event in London this summer.

http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/events/detail/conference_comics_conflict/

Comics Studies at Dundee University

An MLitt in Comics Studies at Dundee University. Possibility of PhD studies there as well.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/prospective/postgraduates/comicstudies/

Krokodil and Russian folklore

Krokodil cartoons very often employed folkloric characters and themes. Soviet graphic satire owed much to pre-revolutionary popular prints...