Students of the St Joost School of Art and Design visited Cross Comix last September. We're happy to show you the great drawings and notes they sent us.  Save the Date: Cross Comix 2026: Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September. https://crosscomix.eu

Dates for Cross Comix 2026 announced! Update your calendars, and invite your friends to do the same! Cross Comix will be returning to De Doelen next year. Cross Comix 2026: 📅 Friday 11 + Saturday 12 September, 2026 📍De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

✨ Today we’re looking back at the Market at Cross Comix 2025✨ So many of you applied, ,and we sadly had to turn down a lot of people. Our new spot at De Doelen is much bigger, but there was still a limited amount of space!  📩 Want updates? Subscribe here: https://f.mtr.cool/keowqbmdky

The aftermovie is here! A thousand thanks to everybody who worked so tirelessly to make Cross Comix happen. 📅 See you next year! Cross Comix 2026: Friday 11 September and Saturday 12 September 🎥 Thanks to Xmaarten for making the video

✨ A look back at Cross Comix 2025, part THREE ✨… and we’re still not done! Extra love to 📸 Michell Urbiztondo for catching all the magic. ✨ Cross Comix will be back on Friday 11 & Saturday 12 September 2026, again at De Doelen, Rotterdam 📩 Newsletter: https://f.mtr.cool/ikrmhnbute

✨ A look back at Cross Comix 2025, part #2 ✨ The entire week we had wonderful performances right in the middle of Rotterdam Central Station. From there, the festival only got bigger and better! Photos Michelle Urbiztondo 📩 Want updates? Subscribe here: https://f.mtr.cool/mhecyvvsir

✨ A look back at Cross Comix 2025, part #1 This year’s festival was our biggest yet — more visitors, more talks, more exhibitions, a bigger market, and a brand new home at De Doelen, Rotterdam.  📩 Want updates? Subscribe to our newsletter: https://f.mtr.cool/cpjwujjkql

About last weekend: 📍 #StationRotterdamCentraal 🗓️ 12/9/2025 🖌️ #CrossComixRotterdam @crosscomix.nl 🎨 @sellfable.bsky.social 🎵 Florian Magnus Maier (known from musical projects such as #Alkaloid & #Changeling ) 🎥 Sethpicturesmusic - Seth Abrikoos Music by Florian Magnus Maier

Moos Boeke has won the Small Press Award 2025 with ‘Abel en Caïn’. Boeke wins €1500.  Second Prize went to Vera Wolsink, and a joint third place to Hilal Uzuner and Hilde Vermeeren. On the first photo : Moos Boeke with last year’s prize winner Abel Dijkstra. Photo by Michelle Urbiztondo:

Cross Comix timetable for Saturday Sept 13. Tickets at https://f.mtr.cool/xbqtaayete or at the door. Do bring your kids because there’s a kids’ corner!  📅 Saturday, 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/yfixrztlye

Cross Comix timetable for Friday sept 12. Don’t miss the talks by Melek Zertal, Merel Barends, Lauraine Meyer, Aimée de Jongh and Vera van Wolferen. Downstairs is free! The SWAP starts at 18:00.  📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Today at our open studio in Station Rotterdam Centraal we had Danny Rumbl and Sicovecas Say hello when you pass by on your way to the Cross Comix Festival on Friday and Saturday. Friday 12 + Saturday,13 September 📅  Friday 12 + Saturday 13 September 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl

This year cross Comix joint forces with Dutch comic magazine Zone 5300. For an essay about how women make Comic history by Natasja van Loon. The essay accompanies the exhibition women on women at the festival on September 12 and 13. 📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

The Berlin Comic Exchange 2025 zine is finally published and for sale at the Cross Comix Zine Kiosk this weekend  in Rotterdam, and there is an exhibition. Check it out!  www.crosscomix.eu

Take a seat on Saturday in the chair or under the dome, and experience an improvised session resulting in a custom-made drawing! by Buro Rococo! At De Doelen in Rotterdam. Entrance via Willem Burgerzaal.  📅 Saturday, 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Today was the first day of our Open Studio Station Rotterdam Centraal, with artist and illustrator Jos Derckx!  New artists every day. Drop by and don’t forget to buy tickets for Cross Comix! 📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 🔗 tickets: Crosscomix.eu or linkinbio

Buy Cross Comix tickets NOW and win this exclusive limited print by María Medem! Winners will be notified by mail later this week, and they can pick up their print at the festival. 📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Visit our Cross Comix Open Studio at Rotterdam Centraal! Each day from Tuesday september 9 until Saturday september 13. Every afternoon an artist will work on a large canvas, sometimes with music. For free! 📅 8 - 13 September  📍Centraal Station, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl | linkinbio

Special giveaway! Buy a ticket on Monday September 8 for the Cross Comix Festival which is happening on September 12 + 13 in Rotterdam, and you stand a good chance to win an exclusive little mystery present! The countdown has started! 📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

This year our moderator is Nova de Hoo. An accomplished comic artist herself, she will be on stage doing presentation, interviews and moderation on Friday and Saturday. Nova won the Gouden Mus award for her book 'Middag, Aand, Oggend' 📅 12 + 13 Sep 2025 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Get your tickets for Melek Zertal at Cross Comix now! Zertal is a French Algerian illustrator and comic artist, based between Paris and California. 📅 12 Sep 2025, morning program from 11:00 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 Tickets: www.crosscomix.eu

Join the SellFable Archivist, and Florian Magnus Maier on a journey into the SellFable universe at @crosscomix.nl Festival. Friday, September 12th (12:00-17:00), we’ll weave sound and charcoal into a live visual and sonic exploration at Rotterdam Central Station. #art #performance #drawing #music

Lauraine Meyer, author of ‘Feminists in Progress’, will join our program “In depth: Feminist comics” for an academic discussion about feminist comics. Get your tickets! 📅 Sat 13 Sep, 15:30 - 16:30 📍 Cross Comix Festival, De Doelen Rotterdam 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/yjlkoaiqjo

Get your tickets! During Cross Comix on 12 & 13 September in Rotterdam, Wobby.club celebrates its 10th anniversary with a glorious exhibition showcasing all 41 issues released over the past decade. 📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Create your own one-page comic with expert guidance. How do you tell a story in just a few images? How do you structure a page. Your guides are María Victoria Rodríguez. and Marcel Ruijters.  Get your tickets now!  📅 Sat 13 Sep, 12:00 - 17:00 📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Get tickets for Vera van Wolferen! Her animation Down in the Dumps, about a ladybug that has her sheaths stolen, premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. On Friday 12 sep, she talks about the creation of the short. 📅 12 Sep  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu @veravanwolferen.bsky.social

Lagos, Home for All is a storytelling project by Lagos-based animators, comic makers and filmmakers, curated by Mooves and Merel Barends into AR-illustrated posters. Premiering at Cross Comix, they’ll also showcase at the African Film Festival in Lagos. 📅12–13 Sep 📍Rotterdam 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Open Call! Meet the Editor! Get insight, feedback and advice on your portfolio from professional publishers and editors: woby,club, Zone 5300, Stripburger and Pulp de Luxe.  🔗 Apply: https://f.mtr.cool/uqrrkgcafl  ➣ Deadline Monday Sept 8.   📅 Friday, 12 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL

Nieuw in de wereld van de graphic novel? Tijdens Cross Comix neemt docent Mark van der Graaff van de Rotterdamse Volksuniversiteit je mee in een inspirerende Inleiding Graphic Novels.  🗣 NL 📅  13 sept 📍 Cross Comix, De Doelen Rotterdam 🔗 https://crosscomix.nl/

Get your tickets now for Aimee de Jongh at Cross Comix 2025! de Jongh (1988, she/her) is an award-winning graphic novel author and animator from the Netherlands, whose books are published in more than 30 countries.  📅 Friday, 12 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

On September 12 and 13 the Cross Comix Festival will be held in De Doelen in Rotterdam. We're looking for volunteers! 📅 12 + 13 September 📍De Doelen, Rotterdam ✏️ Apply and let us know your availability at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vd3tB1qXm8IEnTcUll_CxR4We5PQpECsXOZjcR4KVzQ/preview

Treviso calling Rotterdam! How much can you learn about someone you've never met, in a different country, by exchanging a single message each week? This is the story of two artists: Camilla from Italy and Madelief from The Netherlands On show in Rotterdam, September 12–13, 2025 🔗 www.croscomix.nl

On September 12 & 13, Cross Comix takes over De Doelen in Rotterdam with two days of art, comics, zines, animation, virtual reality, and graphic novels. Soak up that vibrant festival atmosphere! Tickets available now! Grab your tickets! 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl

Two artists—Camilla from Italy and Madelief from the Netherlands—exchange weekly hand-drawn postcards for 17 weeks, sharing thoughts, dreams, and joy across borders. ✨ Rotterdam: Sept 12–13, 2025 ✨ Treviso: Sept 26–28, 2025

Can't wait to swap your art at the Cross Comix Comix Swap Party? On August 23 you can get a taste at Studio Vlinderboom.  📅 Saturday, Aug 23 at 19:00. ➣  Print & Play 16:00 ➣  SWAP! 19:00 📍Studio Vlinderboom, Rudi van Dantzigstraat 3, Amsterdam  🔗 https://www.instagram.com/p/DNIIx-nNjmT/

We’re happy to have work by Sara Mertens in the Cross Comix Kiosk! She is a comic artist and illustrator from Antwerp.  📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl #graphicnovel #zines #Belgie #Antwerpen #rotterdam #rotterdamfestivals

On September 12 and 13 the new edition of Cross Comix Festival will be held in De Doelen in Rotterdam. We are looking for people to help us out! 📅 12 + 13 September 📍De Doelen, Rotterdam ✏️ Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vd3tB1qXm8IEnTcUll_CxR4We5PQpECsXOZjcR4KVzQ/preview

Dobro Witczak (@dobro_witczak) is a Polish multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. She makes colourful, vibrant paintings and simple animations. Find her zine The heels in our Kiosk, on 12 + 13 September.  📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl | linkinbio

Oranova is a virtual reality world created by Merel Barends. A twenty minute virtual experience lands you in the middle of the Night Market, Will you join them?  📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl | linkinbio

Hot tip! Sunday August 17 at Roffa Mon Amour. Lesbian Space Princess brings color, cheeky humor, and a celebration of sci-fi queerness..  📅 Sunday, Aug 17 📍Brutus, Keileweg 18, 3029 BS Rotterdam 🔗 https://roffamonamour.com/screenings/lesbian-space-princess/

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A little gem by Sandra Grbic, available in September at the Cross Comix Zine Kiosk. ‘Things to do while visiting home’.  The Kiosk presents the best selection of international zines and publications. 📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl

The work of Prague Illustrator Veronika Homolová and magazine Fůd are coming to the Cross Comix Zine Kiosk! The Kiosk presents the best selection of international zines and publications. Grab your tickets! 📅 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl

Since 1992, @stripburger.bsky.social has been publishing a renowned international comics magazine.. Editor Katja Štesl and visual artist Klara Kracina will tell all about this pioneering powerhouse at Cross Comix. 📅 Cross Comix, 12 + 13 September 📍De Doelen, Rotterdam 🔗 https://crosscomix.eu/

The Cross Comix Zine Kiosk is happy to feature Helena Nemec from Croatia, with '(Un)balanced', a zine about going overboard and the need for balance.  📅 Cross Comix Festival, 12 +13 September  📍 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL 🔗 www.crosscomix.nl

Grab those Early Bird Tickets! Sunday is the last day! Tell your friends! On September 12 & 13, Cross Comix takes over De Doelen in Rotterdam with two days of art, comics, zines, animation, virtual reality, and graphic novels.  📅 12 + 13 September 📍De Doelen, Rotterdam 🔗 www.crosscomix.eu

Cross Comix 2025 is getting closer! Get your Early Bird Tickets now! We're looking back at last year's edition to get a whiff of that amazing atmosphere. Early Bird tickets at linkinbio or www.crosscomix.eu

Get your Early Bird tickets for The Cross Comix Festival on sept 12 & 13 in Rotterdam. €20,- for the entire two-day festival. That's a steal!  Grab them now. Pay by iDeal, Credit Card,  Bancontact or PayPal.  🔗 https://crosscomix.eu

We're looking for Zines from outside of Europe! The Zine Kiosk is our shop and platform where we showcase and sell the freshest, most amazing and innovative creations by independent publishers and artists from all over the world. Deadline: July 24, 2025. 🔗 https://crosscomix.eu/event/open-calls-2025

We still have two open calls! The Makers Market offers you, as an individual artist or a collective, the opportunity to sell your art and prints. At the Kiosk the best by independent publishers and artists from all over the world. Apply now! 🔗 https://crosscomix.eu/event/open-calls-2025