Helsinki Comics Festival celebrates its founding organisation’s, the Finnish Comics Society’s, 50th birthday this September. The festival’s diverse programme features the Institute’s 30th anniversary publication An Equal Future alongside panel discussions, performances, workshops and a comics market for both larger publishers and small press authors and don’t forget to get involved with Zine Fest 2021! 

In anticipation of the festival the artists behind An Equal Future got together to discuss the project, watch the discussion here:

The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland is one of the festival’s supporting partners. 

Helsinki Comics Festival, 13-14 November 2021, opening hours Saturday 13th 10:30 am-7 pm, Sunday 14th 11 am-6 pm, Merikaapelihalli, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1 C 15, 00180 Helsinki. More information about the festival can be found here. 

Photographer: Henry Söderlund