The comic book festival began in St. Petersburg

The Mayakovsky Library and Bumpniga Publishing House are holding the Boomfest comic book festival. It began on October 1 and will last a whole month, the library press service told Paper .

The program of the festival includes the expositions of the artists Danila Korogodsky, Alina Ismailova and Lev Vasiliev, as well as the online meetings with curators Artem Tomilov and Maria Suproeva, artist Yulia Nikitina and publisher Dmitry Yakovlev. The entrance is free, but by sessions. You can register here .

During Boomfest, comics can be seen not only in books, but also on the glass stelages of the library, under its ceiling and on the tables. If you have a reader ticket (or a passport to get it), then you can take them home.

In addition, from October 1 to 4, on the website of the Bumpniga publishing house, comics and graphic novels can be bought at a 15 %discount. Promo code - Boomfest2020.

Earlier, the “Paper” published the story of the local historian and the head of the St. Petersburg Science Department of Alexei Shishkin about the flight of Mayakovsky in 1918 - the life, work and leisure of the poet.