The “Comics Country Switzerland” exhibition aims to provide a glimpse of Switzerland’s past and present comic activity. It’s addressing to a broad public and to specialists in the comics field.

The exhibition affords an insight into a rather small country one could say, but one that boasts a booming, variety packed comic scene! Individual artists have managed to break through at international level since the seventies.

The ride begins historically with Rodolphe Töpffer from Geneva, who is said to have invented the comic back in the first half of the 19th century. It ends in the present with new young comic-artists based in the two Swiss centres of Zürich and Geneva. These upcoming artists take advantage of the various mediums available to them and dare to try something new and experiment in their own magazines/ editions.