Meet the participants




computers / graphic design / gardening / vegetables / ecology / outdoor living / photography / family / Music / Tech-geek / Fishing / curious / Film / photography

Spirit / Wolverine / Tintin / Asterix / Valhalla / Iznogood / Thorgal ---- Artists: Will Eisner / Richard Corben / Steve Dikto / Jack Kirby / Peter Madsen / morris / Franquin / Jean Giraud / osinski / etc.

I´ve been working with people with special needs for more than 15 years on adult school, with theatre and now with graphic design and more on a museum. My main purpose in my work is to show that people with spevial needs can do anything with the right tools and help.

@JesperKjersgaar










flowers / chocolates / hugs / romantic films / puppies / phone / soft toys / a good steak / fruit / books / seaside beach / travel / Jack coke / diamonds / shoes / bags / galaxy / wrestling / friends / songs

manga / Cas in sarcasm site / Garfield / Peanuts / Malta comic con 2013 - local site / Batman / Spiderman / Ninja turtles / Lady Oscar / Big blog of kids comics - site / Buzz Dixon - site / Willie and Ethel / Ollie and Quentin / Mr. Bean

I am very interested in this seminar because since I work with students of low self esteem but with a potential to learn, I would like to motivate them by offering fun ways towards literacy, reading and communication. These students are also very gifted in drawing so through this project I will be able to relight some interest towards their imagination.









Travel / art / sculpture / illustration / animation / theater / computer / books / movies / flute / projects / coffe, mountains / forest / animals / food / water / society / alternative / ecological / Palestine

Black sad / Jerôme / Mafalda / Sin City / Paracuellos / Masacre / Persépolis / Tintín, Axterix y Obelix

This year I have been working in a Artistic and crafts workshop, in a Nursing house; And also in an Art-therapy workshop with people suffering from schizophrenia., both experiences have been very positive, and I would like to work in the world of education through art, among other social groups, with adults.

@peonza66   









chocolate / pizza / gymnastic / violin / house music / greek / simpson / friends / sea / holiday / messaqes / dress / facebook / disco / children / summer / reading /summer / camping / dreams

tv sorrisi e canzoni / oggi / wuthering heights / bianca come il latte rossa come il sangue / twilight

I had an experience with disabled person: i worked with them doing manual works and other activities such us music therapy and psychomotor. I shared with them many moments of their everyday life: i get lunch with them and we have to take them tot the bathroom, when they need.We were educators and friends for them and i was happy to stay with them and to make them amuse.

@elenamaniago










Gadgets / electronics / design / forest / home cooking / soccer / handball / diving / beach / music / movies / chocolate / family / phone / tablet / travel / food ( in general ) / barbeque / stand up comedy / classic cars

Beetle Bailey / Charlie Brown / Splint & co. / Calvin & Hobbs / Tin Tin / Sammy

I have worked with handicapped adults for almost 5 years on various social day centres. In a workshop, specialized in carpentry, we use an appreciative approach to teach and help the adults.

@BjrnJt










children / party / good food / social networks / sleep / theater / travel / nature / animals / manga / anime / music / spaghetti / spending time with my friends / hear the stories of others / learn new ways of looking at life / movies / laugh / converse / chocolate

Mafalda / Rue 13 del percebe / Asterix / manga: Akuma to love song / black roock shooter

My teaching experience is low. I have been an instructor of children and have worked with the elderly and physicists disabilities. My companions and I started a project in June on the comic and Europe with which we intend to convey to children and adults new knowledge. I hope to apply lessons learned in this project to improve my project.










Family / Friends / History / Politics / Pedagogy / Travelling / Seinfeld / Office / Pizza / Sarma / Computer / Hair dryer / Bicycle / Basketball / Tennis / Table tennis / Fantasy / Football / Osijek / Essehist

Alan Ford / Zagor / Martin Mystery / Dylan Dog / Commandant Mark

I have none, but I wish to work with adults because I believe that in the world of tomorrow, lifelong learning and education will be of great significance for the development of whole society and comics are great to make learning more fun.

@sergejfilipovi










Long walks near the Sea / Extensive Fields / Remote Cliffs / Lavender / Herbs and Spices / Gardening / Family Gatherings / Feasting on Home-Made Food / Wine / Teaching / Reading / Poetry Writing / Literature / Prose Appreciation / Listening to Music / Love songs / Travelling / Voluntary Youth Work / Home Design / Recycling / Performing Arts / Artistic Creativity / Multicultural Experiences / Musicals (my favourite The Phantom of the Opera) / Sun Bathing and Swimming in clear blue seas

Dennis the Menace / Action Comics / Crime suspense stories / Phantom lady / Superman / Beano / bats

I have had experience within adult education but I have never so far dealt with comic education. Therefore my objective to participate in this workshop Comic Sans is to equip me with different methodologies to use in the future with my various students. It will indeed be a novelty to teach/work with comics in the classroom and empower students with different learning strategies.

@246sylvia










Things I like & love / Fruits / Travelling / Teaching / Learning / Pool / Water / Beach / Website / Modern classroom

Tintin / Astérix / Scrooge McDuck / Donald Duck

Since 2006 I work as a civil contract teacher training courses - "Text" and "Computer Literacy" to PGI "Rober Shuman" Razgrad by the "I can do more" BG051PO001-2.1.14. So I have 67 trained adults from all over the community.

@GulnazSolakova













Trainings / recruiting / travelling / activism / urban subcultures / basketball / music / improvisation / comics / books / South park / socializing / good eater / focus / dreamer / internet / beer / laptop / alarm clock

Alan Ford / Zagor / Dylan Dog (Italian comics) / Batman / Asterix / Ghost Rider / Davy Crockett

I have been working for the last 2 years as a coordinator within an organisation offering mobility/non formal learning opportunities to unemployed adults and adults with less opportunities. Before that I worked in recruiting agency, market research and public relations. I see Comics as an interesting tool for adults as part of learning process with an aim of becoming more open and improving (re)inclusion in society for individuals as well as motivating them to become active and increase their employability.

@Goran_Kovijanic











Cats / cava / having breakfast by the seaside / spicy Asian food / ginger / jelly beans / dancing to 80’s music / my job as a teacher / most HBO and Show Time series / travelling by train / Serge Gainsbourg and Peggy Lee / knitting in the winter / riding my bike in the summer / the Tate Modern / the smell of a new book / most movies with Luis Tosar or Javier Bardem in them / San Sebastián for its tapas / London for its sunny climate ;-) / Stephen Fry for his wits and Hugh Laurie for just about everything

Tintin / Le Chat (Philippe Gelück) / Maitena / Javier Mariscal / Paco Roca / etc.

I have been teaching French and Spanish to adults for over 20 years. I make use of comics from time to time because they help students break through their reading barriers. The stories primally unfold in a visual way and this is especially important for students with learning disabilities.

@EllaVanMechelen











photography / travelling / theatre / cinema / dancing / cooking / teaching / sports / Turkish cuisine / holiday / students / school / reading / history / politics / literature / meeting my friends / the walking dead / peace / love

Spiderman / Wolverine / Ironman / X-men / Uykusuz / Penguen / Leman Magazines / I also love reading manga.

I have been teaching English for 6 years to teenagers. Also I taught adult people for a short period. Nearly 2 years ago me and some of my friends as teachers decided to start a non-formal and non-governmental organization for young people or young adults with fewer opportunities. I love comics since my childhood and I think most of the people do. So, I believe using comics would be an enjoyable way of interaction and transmitting information.

@aygunakincan











comedian / Contributor / swimming / running / party man / Internet / music / leave / money / car / friends / computer / animals / Camera / dance / clock / nature / phone / backpack / shoes

Batman / Dan Brown / Bravo / Dober Tek / Scooby doo

5 years of work in the home of the elderly, where I work as a techno nursing co-worker, we have created the dramatic adventures of a group of sisters Helge, where residents with sketches liven up the days and trying to achieve that laugh from the heart

@himelrajhbblaz












Music / horse riding / school / study / pizza / generous / travel / chips / sociable / extrovert / music / books / read / green / touchy / languages / meet new people / loyal / animals

Dago / Valentina / focus / vogue / paperino / A, vanity fair

I've worked only with children with problems and never with adults so I'd like to try this new experience to learn new things and I would like to raise my cultural background too.

@LenardonAnna













excursion / geographic / travel / running / cake / art / chocolate / cooking / baking / friends / christian music / design / hungarian wolk dance / hand made clothes

Superman / Marsupilami / Batman / Spideman

I am a teacher I plan to teach adults as I currently teach very disadvantaged Roma children and unfortunately most of their parents can not write and read. Most of them are unemployed. I plan to teach them as well. I have been teaching very disadvantaged Roma children for almost 10 years in Miskolc, North-Hungary. They are all very nice and are capable to improve their knowledge in every field of their life.











Literary Theory / Poetry / Dennis Potter / Pottery / Interiors / Indigo Dye / Figs / Gertrude Stein / Town Twinning / Virginia Woolf / Composition / Mosaics / Gherkin / Alain Robbe-Grillet / Matisse / Backgammon / Bauhaus / Linen / Mochi / White / Flea Markets / Kew Garden / Basil / Grace Jones / Cycling / Almond Milk / Agnes Varda

The Moomins / The Triplets of Belleville / Maus / Tintin / The Smurfs 

Although I have no prior experience working with adult learners, my interest in attending the ComicSans workshop is to find ways of unlocking access to both literature and language. In 2012, I completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools, London. My work is interested in exploring the intimacy of exchange within systems, structures or networks of understanding. Whilst Artist-in-Residence with Glenfiddich in Dufftown, Scotland, my project looked to invest in the relationship between Dufftown and its twin town Mortlach in Canada.

@SeeJeeBee









pizza / chocolate / shoes / badminton / riding bike / rollerskate / travel / friends / bake / Christian music / read / second-hand stuff / gardening / new people / Israel / Jesus

TinTin / Meet the Fockers /Action Bible / Asterix / Ratatuille / Starsky & Hutch / The Pink Panther 

I have been teaching very disadvantaged Roma children for almost 10 years. Unfortunately most of their parents are low educated and/or can not write or read, they are unemployed. My goal is teaching them to find job and be able to help their kids as well. I want them to experience reading is a great adventure! Comics - the most interesting tool for it.











filmmaking / history / blues / guitar / Tanzania / traveling / reading / Autumn / Chomsky / Orwell / chocolate / Batman / vegetarianism / family / friends / sarcasm / surrealism / nostalgia / basketball / minpin

Batman / Calvin and Hobbes / Bob Rock / Charlie Brown / Zagor / Wolverine

I have been volunteering for the past few years, but I have been mostly working with children while teaching them English, History or leading filmmaking workshops. In 2013 I spent three months in Tanzania as a volunteer in an orphanage where I had an opportunity to work with both children and local adults. Being and educator by profession, and an amateur filmmaker who occasionally loves to read a good comic book, I would gladly like to find out more about practical approaches to teaching adults and incorporation of creative methods in the teaching-learning process, especially in an intercultural context such as this one.

@33woodward33










computers / programming / physics / sci-fi / horror movies / anime / manga / j-pop / music / gadgets / web / internet / comics / tv series / city / swimming / the sun / the beach / pizza / shopping / video/games

Fantastic Four / Spiderman / X-men / Avengers / Arale / 20th century boys / Monster / Kurosagi

During my career I have been working as a teacher in several EU programmes. I have worked with special needs groups: migrants, deaf people and some other groups. I found specially useful comics in learnings for they have a very concise language and a strong visual impact to transmit any message.

@TheSoundOfKlaw










sea / nature / tascia / surrealism / gypsy / laugh / friends / cinema / dogs / island/ delinquents / decadence / Hendrix / sun / good food / massage / sleep / calm / confusion / keep walking

Mr.Wiggles / Dark Side of the Horse / PHD Comisc / Garfield / Calvin and Hobbes / Persepolis 

I work with young adults in conflict with low in different non-formal educative activities and as volunteer also as teacher of English, what is big challenge because our guys have many problems with reading and writing in their native language. 

@SashaFilcakova