The Festival
The city of Erlangen is organising the International Comic Salon, which takes place every two years, for the 14th time from 3 to 6 June 2010. It is the largest and most important festival of graphic literature in the German-speaking countries. The Erlangen Salon co-wrote the history of comics in the last twenty-five years and therefore played a decisive role in ensuring that comics have been acknowledged not just as a mass medium but also as an art form for a long time. The goal of the Erlangen Salon is to bring together art and commerce, mainstream and avant-garde in an event that mirrors all of the facets of the ninth art.