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  • COMPLEX Awarded Honorable Mention at Supertoon Festival

    Our choose your own adventure comic COMPLEX won Special Mention in the Fanzine category at Supertoon Festival! We are honoured! We are The Random Factor Comics Collective: Anamarija Kvas, Anna Benczédi, Ivana Geček, and myself.

    Complex was fun to make — each of us staying in a different country, having online meetings about storylines and how to connect them, crazyness and lots of fun. Readers also seem to be enjoying it. 🙂

    In COMPLEX, you help our heroes navigate the maze of their lives! We offer you many storylines, each starting out at an exhibition. Depending on your choices, you can test gravity on various space objects, challenge patriarchy with cats, or help our heroes survive their poor life choices.

  • Keynote at IGNCC

    One of the greatest honors of my life has been to keynote at the joint conference of IGNCC and IBDS (International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, International Bande Dessinée Society).
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  • COMPLEX: A Choose your own adventure comic!

    COMPLEX, is a collectively made choose-your-own-adventure comic by Anna Benczédi (Romania), Ivana Geček (Croatia), Anamarija Kvas (Croatia), and Eszter Szép (Hungary) that debuted at Ukmukfukk Festival, Budapest, in 2025.

    COMPLEX has won an award! We are extremely happy to have won Honorable Mention at Supertoon International Animation and Comics Festival, Šibenik, Croatia.

    In COMPLEX, you can navigate between many storylines. It starts out at an art exhibition, and depending on your choices, you can test gravity on various space objects, challenge patriarchy with cats, or can help our heroes survive their poor life choices. This is THE choose your own adventure comic from the Balkans that you would not want to miss!


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  • Versions of Me – Comics Anthology

    Last autumn (2024) I had the pleasure to co-teach a one-week practical workshop on making comics and feminism. This practical workshop was attended by young creative women studying at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and and they were so dedicated and hard-working, that we managed to publish an anthology of our work. My co-teacher, Nikoletta Mihalik took on the role of designing our booklet, which contains a lot of 2-page comics on the experience of being a young woman in Hungary today. Topics include body image, work-life balance, wrestling, and the most popular topic is the weigh of expectations.

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  • Weekdays – my comic book on depression

    Have you always wanted a Hungarian comic in which nothing happens? In which Lidl cashiers are grumpy and the protagonists know all Netflix series by heart?
    Then Weekdays, my first comic book, is for you! Nothing really happens in this story about three siblings. For one of them reality seems darker, gloomier, more unbearable, and the other two brothers try to help him in their own ways.

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  • Feminist Comics Network at the Balkans

    I am honored to be a mentor and advisor in WOMCOM, a groundbreaking 6-country comics initiative that aims at creating a network for women and non-binary creators in the very patriarchal comics cultures and societies of Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
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  • Remarkable Educator Award

    Proud to share that I got an award for being a remarkable educator! This was the first time Milestone Institute handed out awards, and I’m honored.

    That said, I also would like to say that I’m absolutely open to teaching at your institution, too!

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  • A collection of my students’ comics is OUT!

    It Used to Be Easy: Comics about Growth and Change is out now!

    The comics were made by MA students of MOME ANIM during our Storytellings with Comics course in November 2022. These are personal and cool comics. It was a pleasure to work with the students both as an instructor as an editor: they were eager to learn, listened to advice, and kept very tight deadlines. I absolutely loved teaching this course.

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  • Showcasing New Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novels (free PDF!)

    A catalog showcasing contemporary Hungarian comics came out in fall 2021, but I completely forgot to share the news here.

    I was working on New Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novels: Speech Bubbles to Leave You Speechless in the spring, it was commissioned by the Petőfi Literary Fund. It was big work: I selected the artists and comics featured in this beautiful catalog, wrote the text about each of them, and selected the images, too. Many of the featured titles has won or has been nominated to the Hungarian comics award.

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  • 2021 – A Busy Year

    When I was looking back on 2020 in my January 2021 post, I wrote that the best decision I made was quitting my job at a multinational company in the summer of 2020 (in spite of the pandemic, etc). I was grateful for that decision each and every day of 2021. Though freelancing is hard, it is getting easier and easier to find work. I still could not support myself financially if I lived alone, but I do not live alone, and I can rely on a partner who supports my freelancing projects. All year round, I could work on projects that make sense, which is a wonderful feeling.

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