The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off right this moment, one among New York’s signature occasions, filled with screenings and rooftop events and the remainder of that movie pageant life.
Comics have had a number of connections with the fest over time, however essentially the most outstanding comics-related participant has been writer AWA Studios. They’ve been concerned in varied methods lately and this outing they’ve come up with one thing extra modern than a mere panel: prize artwork!
For 2023, AWA has partnered with the pageant and artist Juan Doe to supply the prize artwork for winners in chosen classes of the pageant awards. Each yr, artists donate artwork to numerous prizewinners, so it’s a pleasant method to rejoice multi-disciplinary crossovers.
Winners within the Immersive, Games, Tribeca X, and Audio Storytelling classes will obtain Doe’s artwork, which he says was impressed by basic New York and leading edge storytelling.
“The idea for this poster for the Tribeca Festival was to compose something that harkened back to the iconography of the NYC skyline, but synthesized with futuristic echoes of the various mediums that compose the festival,” Doe informed The Beat. “Film / Immersive / Games / Talks / TV / Music / Audio Storytelling / Comedy, these are all different narrative strands connected to the singular art form of storytelling and I wanted the poster to feel like an invitation to this heralded event. With the film strip acting as a road inviting you to a beacon of a city known to electrify the imagination through the power of storytelling.”
Doe has an extended resume together with Bad Reception, his first creator owned ebook, Brian Azzarello’s American Monster, World Reader with Jeff Loveness, Marguerite Bennett’s Animosity: The Rise, and Dark Ark by Cullen Bunn, for Aftershock comics; as a canopy artist on X-Men: 198, X-Men: Civil War, Iron-Man: Industrial revolution and Guardians of the Galaxy; and The Fantastic Four in Puerto Rico trilogy written by Tom Beland and The Legion of Monsters mini-series by Dennis Hopeless.
The prize artwork can be awarded to the winners within the following classes:
- Immersive
- New Voices Award
- Storyscapes Award
- Games
- Tribeca X
- Best Feature Award
- Best Short Award
- Best Audio Award
- Best Series Award
- Best Immersive Award
- Audio Storytelling
- Best Fiction Award
- Best Non-Fiction Award
- Independent Fiction Award
- Independent Non-Fiction Award
Other comics associated occasions at The TFF: the screening of a brand new Stan Lee documentary, and screenings of Shortcomings, the Randall Park-directed adaptation of the Adrian Tomine graphic novel. Anything we missed?
Discussion about this post