Saturday 19. 5. 2018 11:00–12:00
Fantasy and manga is extremely popular entertainment of today but still dominated by stories about men or worlds where men rule. That is what Swedish manga artist Natalia Batista wanted to avoid when she made her manga Sword Princess Amaltea, about a matriarchal fairy tale world where the Queens rule, magic is power and the princess rescues the prince. She will talk about the work process, the active decisions the made when building the story and the road to publication. Her manga has already been published in Sweden, Italy and Germany and will be released in the Czech Republic by Zanir and in the US by Tokyopop.
Presenter
Natalia Batista
Swedish manga artist, illustrator and comic art teacher at the Comic Art School in Malmö, Sweden. In 2009 she self-published her BL manga A song for Elise as a book. Her debut in Sweden came in 2010 with her children manga Mjau!, It has also been translated into Portuguese. In 2017, it was published by Phoenix Dream Publishing in the US.
She is the creator of Sword Princess Amaltea. It was first published in Sweden in 2013 and serialized in the Italian online manga magazine Doraetos Manga. In 2017, it got signed to TOKYOPOP in the US, Kasaobake in Italy, Zanir in the Czech Republic and PYRAMOND in Germany.
Natalia is a member of the Swedish manga artist collective and publisher Nosebleed Studio.
