The future beckons, as the comics industry reinvents itself.
Comics are, by their very nature, crossmedial products. For comics, the jump into other media seems inevitable: comics become films, films become games and the games turn up again as apps. For many years comics have been among the most crossmedial products in the book and media industry.

Thanks to digitisation, the already fertile relationship between picture stories and other media is experiencing an enormous boom. In each case, the decisive factor is not the respective medium that undertakes to repackage the content; rather it is the story itself that ensures the success of a product. Content is king.

The Frankfurt Book Fair is responding to these developments with its digital initiative Frankfurt SPARKS (www.frankfurtsparks.com). Frankfurt SPARKS keeps the spotlight consistently on the content, and develops business models that transcend the industry boundaries. Connect to content.
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The search is on for the best cartoons on the theme of "Caught in the (inter)net".
Since 2006, Carlsen Verlag and the Frankfurt Book Fair have jointly awarded the annual German Cartoon Prize for talented young cartoonists. Entry is open to anyone who has not yet published a book of cartoons at the time of the award ceremony during the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. More

Who is the most popular comic artist 2010? Fans and readers vote on who should receive the comic award "Sondermann". Every year since 2004, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Frankfurter Rundschau, Spiegel Online and www.comicforum.de have presented the Sondermann awards in the Comics Centre. The readers' choice prize is named after the best-known character created by the Frankfurt comic artist and illustrator Bernd Pfarr who died in 2004.

The Germany Cosplay Championship - Deutsche Cosplaymeisterschaft (DCM) - is organised by Animexx e.V., Germany’s biggest manga and anime community, and the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The Cosplayers dress up in their own designs of fantasy outfits based on their models in Japanese comics, films and roleplay games. For the championship they show their costumes during brief onstage performances.

For the DCM, its new season starts on 10 April 2011. Nine preliminary rounds will be held all over the country to find the best cosplayers to qualify for the finals on 16 October at the Frankfurt Book Fair where they can become “German Cosplay Champion 2011”.
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