Program of the 8th Edition of the Brașov International Historical Comics Festival 2025

Thursday, August 7, 2025
Casa Sfatului, starting at 3:00 PM
Opening ceremony
Awards ceremony of the international competition with the theme “Legends and Historical Stories”
Opening of the exhibition of the international competition “Legends and Historical Stories”
Awards ceremony of the annual national competition dedicated to students
Opening of the exhibition “The Life Story of King Michael I of Romania, drawn by Master Puiu Manu”
Opening of the exhibition “History and Graphic Adventure” (author Adrian Barbu)
Opening of the exhibition “Through Seas Never Before Sailed: The Madeiran Experience in Promoting History through Comics” (author Roberto Macedo Alves)
Opening of the exhibition “They Were With Us… 12 Stories About the Holocaust in Romania” (author Octav Ungureanu)

Friday, August 8, 2025
Olimpia – Museum of Sport and Mountain Tourism
10:30-12:00 Drawing workshop for children with Diana Tivu, “Oscar the Cat - How to Invent a Character from Idea to Drawing”, recommended age 6+
Bastionul Țesătorilor
11:00 – 11:30 Roberto Macedo Alves (Portugal), “Through Seas Never Before Sailed: The Madeiran Experience in Promoting History through Comics”
11:30 – 12:00 Paulo Monteiro (Portugal), “History of Portuguese Comics”
12:00 – 12:30 Nicko Panagiotis Dalampiras (Greece), “Greek Historical Comics”
12:30 – 13:00 Marko Stojanovic (Serbia), “The Balkan Comic Strip from the Perspective of the Latest Edition of the Most Important Balkan Comics Festival”
13:00 – 13:30 Prof. Univ. Adrian Cioroianu, Dodo Niță, Vintilă Mihăescu, debate “Romanian Historical Comics Today”
Olimpia – Museum of Sport and Mountain Tourism
16:30 - 17:00 Walter Riess, comics and book cover illustration
17:00 – 18:00 Presentation of comics books and magazines, with authors and editors present
Vali Ivan, Once Upon a Time in Romania, 2025
Vali Ivan, Iancu Jianu, Cartoon Press Publishing House, 2011
Daniel Eduart Buruiană, Dacian Comics, 2025
Astra BD Magazine, no. 2/2025, Astra Publishing House, Dej, director Radu Gavrilă, artistic director Gabriel Rusu, editor-in-chief Dodo Niță
18:00-18:30 Octav Ungureanu on the project Images from the Past. The Holocaust in Romania & the album They Were With Us… 12 Stories About the Holocaust in Romania (Polirom Publishing House, 2025)
18:30-19:00 Adrian Barbu, “History and Graphic Adventure” (author Adrian Barbu)

Saturday, August 9, 2025
Bastionul Țesătorilor
11:00 – 13:00
Puiu Manu, All Sails Set, Grafic Publishing House, 2025
Teodor Păpușe, Teoisms, debut album, 2025
Diana Tivu presents the series “Successful Romanians” (Traian Vuia and the Metal Bird, Corint Publishing House, 2024, Petrache Poenaru and the War Against Ink Stains, Corint Publishing House, 2024, Ana Aslan and the Elixir of Youth, Corint Publishing House, 2025)
Daniel Horia, My Golden Age, Grafic Publishing House, 2021
Jup, Super Costel, The Cat Man, Junimea Publishing House, 2024
Paulo Monteiro, My Infinite Love for You, Revers Publishing House, 2017
The Comic N' Play anthologies presented by Nicko Panagiotis Dalampiras, director of the Thessaloniki Comics Festival
17:30 – 19:00
Roberto Macedo Alves, À conversa com Camões / A Conversation with Camões, co-production Sétima Dimensão Unip. Lda., Brașov County Museum of History, Romanian Cultural Institute Lisbon, 2025
Presentation of the collective album Dracula in Comics, Brașov County Museum of History, 2024:
Nicolae Pepene, (Im)mortal Dracula
Ioana Șchiopu, Octav Ungureanu, Alexandru Ciubotariu, The Story of the Largest Romanian Historical Comics Album
Discussions & autograph session with authors of the album

Sunday, August 10, 2025
Piața Sfatului
10:30 – 12:00 “The Battle” of the Cartoonists
Temporary exhibitions:
Exhibition of the international historical comics competition “Legends and Historical Stories” (Piața Sfatului)
Casa Sfatului:
Exhibition of the national competition dedicated to students “Legends and Historical Stories”
“The Life Story of King Michael I of Romania, drawn by Master Puiu Manu”
Exhibition “History and Graphic Adventure” (author Adrian Barbu)
“Through Seas Never Before Sailed: The Madeiran Experience in Promoting History through Comics”
“They Were With Us… 12 Stories About the Holocaust in Romania”
Admission is free to all events!

Producer: Brașov County Museum of History
 Partners: Forums Association, Coresi Shopping Resort, HISTORIA
 National media partners: AGERPRES, revistacomics.ro, zilesinopti.ro
 Project supported by Brașov County Council.