The second ever New Zealand Independent Comics Festival opens this Friday, April 28, 5pm at Wellington’s Ron Barber Gallery, 91 Aro St. The festival runs for the weekend of April 28-30 and features an exhibition of seminal New Zealand comic art since the 1960s, curated by NZ independent comics historian Dr Tim Bollinger. On the Saturday there will be talks by "Hicksville" author Dylan Horrocks and Darren Schroeder, head of Christchurch publishers Funtimes Comics, about the history and current state of comics in New Zealand. The talks begin at 4pm at the Aro Valley Community Hall.
