For the very first time ever at Cross Comix you can create your own comic-collage-hat together with Yvan Guillo & Susanne Schmitt, aka Samplerman and Schmitthut. Transform 2D into 3D – and add an additional layer of meaning, fun and utility!
From four pre-cut pieces of panels everyone will fashion a comic-collage-hat and populate it with their own imagination.
Samplerman & Schmitthut crossed paths in 2023 and the origin story of comic-hats started to unfold. Among others it led them to winning an international hat award in France and a purchase from the renowned public library Anna Amalia in Weimar.
A poster from which you can make your own Samplerman hat is also available at the Zine kiosk at the festival. But nothing beats learning it from the masters themselves!
Schmitthut has successfully created innovative hats and caps for 25 years. Celebrated as one of the top manufacturers in Germany, schmitthut never ceased to push the boundaries of the imaginable and possible. Always committed to the functional hat, Susanne never stopped ignoring the predictable customs of hat-making.
Yvan Guillo (samplerman)
Yvan Guillo, aka Yvang is a French cartoonist born in 1971. He started publishing comics in numerous fanzines in the early nineties and thus far accepts invitations to take part…
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Yvan Guillo (samplerman)
Yvan Guillo (Samplerman)
Yvan Guillo, aka Yvang is a French cartoonist born in 1971. He started publishing comics in numerous fanzines in the early nineties and thus far accepts invitations to take part in micro published collective projects. His photocopied fanzine “Crachoir” (1992-2010), featuring his own comics and graphic explorations plus works from his friends was his main space of expression before his late acquisition of an Apple Macintosh PC and his adoption of the Internet around the year 2000.
The web became his favourite way of publication and experimentation for his comics, made available for anyone as soon as finished. During this period he perfected his practice of the photo edition software Adobe Photoshop for colorization in a way that would become very useful years later. At the time the increase in speed of the access to the Internet resulted in more and more availability of some good quality scans of old American comics from the golden age previously not easily available in Europe.
In a more classical vein, pursued in parallel with his experimental work, he published some children comic books, some auto-published and some at the now defunct éditions “Le Moule à Gaufres”, and worked as a freelance graphic designer. Around 2009, he started a shared Tumblr blog (with his friend French cartoonist Léo Quievreux), “zdnd”, la zone de non-droit (the no-go zone) in order to post experiments, side projects and often unfinished works.
The digital collages of golden age american comics labelled “Samplerman” started there, and the warm feedback from many followers, and continuous commissions for illustrations, Sleeves for LP Record etc. from many countries gave it a boost to go on. The Tumblr blog Samplerman took over in 2015, followed by his Instagram account. Samplerman was awarded the Prix de l’EESI in january 2019 during the Angoulème festival. He’s currently working on several forthcoming exhibitions, books and mini comics. He lives and works in Brittany, France.
Susanne Schmitt combines knowledge, experience, and craziness to create her extraordinary headpieces. Not only will you find hats in her beautiful atelier in Darmstadt, but discover other lovely things.
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Susanne Schmitt
Schmitthut
Susanne Schmitt combines knowledge, experience, and craziness to create her extraordinary headpieces. Not only will you find hats in her beautiful atelier in Darmstadt, but discover other lovely things.
