Ivana Gecek

Stories are a way to escape reality, but also a way to communicate and to help us understand the world around us. These are stories on different subjects, told with different voices in different ways by 13 creators from 8 countries. This volume of CBA has no theme, it’s just stories.

More stories, no theme. A mix of new and established artists from various countries telling stories unfettered by predetermined themes or concepts. Stories that try out ideas, vent frustrations, share thoughts and explore concepts. Narrative experiments, shifting perspectives and pure fantasies. Stories to think about and be moved by. This volume of CBA, the international comics anthology, has no theme, it’s just stories.

New issue of the international comics anthology: Where were you born? Where are you from? When these questions are asked really what the person means often is, who are you? In the new volume of CBA we want you to ask yourselves some questions. Who are humanity as a collective consciousness? Where do we come from? All these little specks of life in this big dark space of nothing, and for what?

So many LGBTQ narratives end in tragedy as a consequence of the LGBTQ-hood of the characters. Those stories are important because LGBTQ people are still being targeted by prejudice, discrimination and violence, but in this volume of CBA we encouraged artists to do something different. To tell queer stories where the queerness isn’t a narrative catalyst for bad things, but rathera source for joy or love or just one characteristic among others. Queer tales about situations involving LGBTQ characters. Utopian queer tales in the sense that everything might not be perfect, but at least the horrible things that happen don’t have anything to do with the characters’ sexual orientation.