Cross Comix Rotterdam

Shawn Wannapat & Ellie Mc Guinness will join eight other artists from Berlin and the Netherlands and create a zine in four days at the Renate Comics Library in Berlin.

Shawn Wannapat (THA) (they/them) is an illustrator/graphic designer from Bangkok, who has e been living in Berlin for eight years. A big theme in their work is commentary on gentrification and displacement in Berlin.
Ellie Mc Guinness (EIR) is an Irish Illustrator and tattoo artist living in Rotterdam who often makes short, detailed pages that show part of their dream world. As a q***r non binary artist, their work is centred on the relationship to their body and the desire to change oneself.

The Berlin Comic Exchange zine will be curated and published after the exchange and all the work will be on show during the Cross Comix festival on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of september 2026 in De Doelen in Rotterdam, NL.

So many thanks to organizers Saskia van Amstel aka Burning desk and alea rodriguez at the Renate Comics Library, Tucholskystraße 32, Berlin.

📍May 8–11, Renate Comics Library, Tucholskystraße 32, Berlin.

Countdown to the Berlin Comic Exchange 2026. Ten artists from Berlin and the Netherlands will create a zine in a four day exchange in May. Today we feature artists Eva ten Cate and Maka!

Eva ten Cate (NL) is an illustrator/image maker based in Zwolle, NL. Her work is usually about connecting with the organisms around us like trees, bugs and shells, and to see them as equals to us humans.
Maka (FI) has lived in Berlin for 16 years now. She’s interested in personal themes such as emotions, feminism, relationships, encounters, sexuality, as well as the boundaries and freedoms imposed by society. Her first graphic novel ‘Rusinat Berliinin munkista’ has just been published.

The Berlin Comic Exchange zine will be curated and published after the exchange and all the work will be on show during the Cross Comix festival on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of September 2026 in De Doelen in Rotterdam, NL.

So many thanks to organisers Saskia van Amstel aka Burning desk and alea rodriguez at the Renate Comics Library, Tucholskystraße 32, Berlin.

📍May 8–11, Renate Comics Library, Tucholskystraße 32, Berlin.