Open Call: Berlin Comic Exchange
After a successful first edition in 2025 Renate Comics Berlin & Cross Comix Rotterdam are teaming up again for the Berlin Comic Exchange 2026! Ten artists based in the Netherlands and Berlin will make a collaborative comic zine in four days, in Berlin.
We invite comic artists based in the Netherlands and Berlin to apply for this very exciting exchange program at Renate Comics in Berlin!
Read more and apply here
Open Call Small Press Award 2026
Since 2022, Stichting Beeldverhaal Nederland, organizer of Stripdagen Haarlem and Cross Comix, have presented the Small Press Award (SPA) for the best, most beautiful, or most original small press publication of the year. Submissions are now open for the 2026 edition.
Read more and submit your work for the Small Press Award 2026
Cross Comix Kiosk in Chișinău
This March, our intrepid curator Dasha Starostin brought a ‘light’ version of the Cross Comix Zine Kiosk to a new audience in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Kiosk features the most beautiful, inspiring, and diverse zines, On March 14 and 15, 2026, the mini Zine Kiosk landeed at the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Municipal Library.
Cross Comix 2026 in De Doelen, Rotterdam
Cross Comix Festival will be back on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of september 2026 with an action packed event: talks, expos, workshops, performances and much more in De Doelen, Rotterdam. Save That Date!
In the following months we will regularly publish open calls for participation in our international exchanges, the Small Press Award, the XXL makers market and the zine kiosk. Be sure to follow our socials or, better even, subscribe to our newsletter.
