Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

As the Philippines will be the Guest of Honour country at the Frankfurt Buchmesse 2025, the spotlight is on its graphic novels, the top literary genre that’s getting translated around the world. Get to know what comics and graphic novels and why. Firsthand stories of successful rights sales will be shared by the Festival Director of the Philippine International Comics Festival

Book Talk with Daryll Delgado

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Daryll talks about how stories can help change perspectives for the protection of the planet.

Book Talk with Jessica Zafra

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Classism is strong in Filipino society, especially among urban young adults who feel it most intensely. Can language and education break down the barriers between rich and poor? Can fiction show us how to navigate the social divide?

Book Talk with Stephanie Coo

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

How does clothing characters in a work of fiction become a political act?

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Monsters hiding in the dark are not the scariest parts of Renren Galeno’s work. Rather, it’s the harshness of reality, the horrors of everyday living, which are the true monstrosity in her comics, "Sa Wala" (Für Nichts)

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Philippine pre-colonial history was destroyed, rewritten, and revised by the colonizers. This compels Jay Ignacio, and many creators like him, to use comics to reimagine the nation, its history, and its people, like in his graphic novel Alandal. [with video presentation]

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

With the fast-tracked invasion of digital technology, globalization is the new colonization.

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

What does it mean to do literary translation in the Philippines?

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Ren talks about observational drawing and how to create stories from there.

Veranstalter: National Book Development Board Philippines

Book talk with Monica Fröhlich and Annette Hug