Cheeky Laughs (1) – Being a woman

We pursue the publication of the cartoons of the International festival in Ferrara 2018, #intfe ,”cheeky laughs” conference, by: Marilena Nardi, Zainab Fasiki and Anne Derenne. The conference addressed four themes: (1) Being a Woman, (2) Harassment, (3) Violence, (4) Resistance. Here is the first part. Being a woman is hard to imagine for a […]

Cheeky Laughter – Against gender stereotypes and sexism

As part of the Internazionale Festival 2018 in Ferrara – #intfe-facebook.com/internazfest – Libex had the pleasure to present the work of 3 great artists, cartoonists: Marilena Nardi (It), Anne Derenne (FR) and Zainab Fasiki (Morocco) during a debate on sexism and gender stereotypes. Sexism and stereotypes that are unfortunately part of everyday life in all […]

Expo of Claude Jammet: bestiary

For once LIBEX is not presenting cartoons, but announcing the exhibition of extraordinary paintings – where irony is not the less interesting part – by Claude Jammet, a French painter, living in Italy. The exhibition “Bestiary I Anthropocene”, will be in the Gallery Everard Read, in London from 18th of October to 10th of November. We […]

Europe is getting warmer, and it’s not looking like it’s going to cool down anytime soon

The European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet), an independent platform for data-driven news on European affairs, has organized a large study on  global warming analizing more than 100 millions meteorological datas during one century.Their findings and show that in many places in Europe the 1.5 °C limit set by the Paris agreement has already been reached. […]

Leave No one behind: New Competition di Cartoon Home Network International

“Leave no one behind” Invitation to contribute with us On the occasion of World Blind Day, and with the aim of supporting this group in our societies, October 15 will be marked by the presentation of cartoons on the “white stick” as a symbol of achievement and independence for people with visual disabilities. On our […]

Marco De Angelis, new member of Librexpression scientific Council

Librexpression is happy to welcome Marco de Angelis as new member of its Scientific Council. Eminent editorial cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and graphic designer, Marco was participating to the LECTORINFABULA festival #linf18, where he hold several conferences. Member of the LIBEX-2018-Competition’s jury, he animated a workshop on “how to read an image”, then was one of […]

Yassine Ellil & Rym Jaafra in LectorInFabula-2018

The LectorInFabula Festival 2018 #Linf18 – was happy to host the two Tunisian comics artist – Rym Jaafra and Yassine Ellil – who hold a laboratory, organised by the center LIBREXPRESSION with young boys and girls (6 to 11 years old) on how to prepare a comic journal, which encoutered a great success, thanks also […]

Honourable Mention for 12 Cartoonists of the Competition LIBEX-2018

Among the 55 finalists of the first competition LIBEX-2018 #Linf18(selected among 260 candidates with 635 cartoons submitted), apart from the three first prizes, 12 cartoonists received from the Jury a “Honourable Mention”: Lele Corvi (It), Leslie Ricciardi (Uruguay), Giuseppe Inciardi (It), Walter Leoni – Totally Unnecessary Comics (IT), Ömer Çam (Turkey), Mary Zins (USA), Pascal […]

LIBEX-2018 Prizes ceremony

On Sunday 16th of September, Piazetta Struzo in Conversano (BA) was organised the Prize-ceremony  for the three winners of the Competition LIBEX-2018 on the theme “Imagination and power in the digital era“. A very nice public event, in presence of the jury, the Lord Mayor of Conversano, Pasquale Loiacono, the president of the Italian Journalists Association, Raffaele […]

The 15 best cartoons of the Competition LIBEX-2018

After selecting 55 cartoons out of the 635 sent by 260 candidates from 55 different countries del Concorso LIBEX-2018 on the theme: “Imagination and power in the digital era”  the jury choose its 15 prefered cartoons.  The 55 cartoons will be exhibited during and after the festival “LectroInFabula-2018” (from the 13th to the 16th of September, […]