Five Compote Collective artists are taking part in Storyborders - a collection of comics stories by contemporary Bulgarian artists. The collection's theme is differences, it is a dazzling mix of graphic styles and narratives drawn and written by eight grown-ups and one child. The child is the 8 years-old Slavi who is a Roma boy living Fakulteta, the largest Roma neighborhood in Bulgaria.
Initially, editors thought that – given the topic – will get comics characters that are different by virtue of their ethnicity, language, religion, sexuality and the like. Contrary to that expectation, the main characters are a wooden boy, a flying carpet, flies, dogs dressed in white, a weird female creature with a wonderful voice, talking scissors and a brave Roma boy. More at www.comixculture.org, the content of the comics book features:
