Celina Cyganik

TITLE: topiel/the gulf SYNOPSIS: A woman's quest for the legendary sword is about to end. ADDITIONAL INFO: 'The gulf' was my first digitally coloured comics. GENRE: fantasy, questing, medival-esque fantasy, NUMBER of pages: 6

TITLE: Strych/Attic SUMMARY: after damaging his grandmother's favourite wooden figurine, Jacob makes a deal with a Monster living at the attic to fix it. the catch? He has to find the Monster's missing thumb before the end of summer vacation. "Attic" is a 8-pages long story pitch for a horror-esque,coming-of-age story for teenagers to be expanded to a ~48-pages long comics.

TITLE: It's a dog's life SYNOPSIS: a short story about a dog and it's owner. ADDITIONAL INFO: the project was drawn for comics competition accompanying the international comics festival Salon Stripa in Serbia and was part of the post-contest exhibition during the festival. GENRE: Slice of life NUMBER of pages: 3

TITLE: Spirit guide SYNOPSIS: a short story about a girl taking a shortcut through the graveyard. ADDITIONAL INFO: the project was drawn for comics competition accompanying the international comics festival Salon Stripa in Serbia and was part of the post-contest exhibition during the festival. GENRE: slice of life, supernatural/ghosts NUMBER of pages: 4

TITLE: 805km SYNOPSIS: The newly crowned king of Zachnrad, Eisenrost Ausfeilen, and his wife Anssi Korjata-Ausfeilen, princess of Henki, travel to the Sacred Spring for ceremonial ablution as the last part of their wedding rites. GENRE: road novel/road fiction, romance, slice-of-life, fantasy STATUS: on-going

TITLE: Miazmatyczna Teoria Chorób/Miasma Theory SYNOPSIS: MIASMA THEORY is a post-apocalyptic, coming-of-age story with a Slavic vibe about a teenager who searches for his family during a pandemic of the deadly disease. GENRE: road fiction, post-apocalypse STATUS: On-going

TITLE: first contact SYNOPSIS: "First contact" is the first meeting of two cultures previously unaware of one another. ADDITIONAL INFO: the project was developed for comics competition held by Fumetto comics festival. GENRE: Science fiction NUMBER of pages: 4

TITLE: Asfalt/asphalt SYNOPSIS: "before you start to complain about condition of road surfaces ask yourself this question: is it really road workers' fault?" ADDITIONAL INFO: the story was inspired by something my father said in regards to Silesian folklore. GENRE: horror, supernatural/Silesian folklore NUMBER of pages: 8

TITLE: spotkanie przy kawie/coffee klatch ADDITIONAL INFO: a short story about a teen who took a dare to wander around the haunted graveyard THEMES: horror, supernatural, ghosts, folklore NUMBER of pages: 8

TITLE: Zbysiu SYNOPSIS: "only an exceptional actor is able to play a fool as if he truly was one" ADDITIONAL INFO: Zbysiu is a diminutive form of the Slavic name Zbigniew (Zbygniew). GENRE: supernatural/imaginary friends NUMBER of pages: 3

TITLE: Nocka/night-shift SYNOPSIS: the most peculiar clientèle of convenience stores comes at the break of dawn. ADDITIONAL INFO: Along with 26 other titles, "Night shift" is a part of a comics anthology - Darmozin - which was published in celebration of free comics day in Poznan. GENRE: slice of life, supernatural/monsters NUMBER of pages: 3

"if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" - anonym one day a girl who moves to a new flat with her dad. Soon after she learns that in her wardrobe dwells a monster! the initial idea for this short comic book was to create a tale-like quality of storytelling. I was greatly inspired by common fear of the dark as well as such works like brothers Grimm tales. Wardrobe is a comics executed as an annex to my master's thesis.