Ha-Ga. Intervention

Martyna Bolanowska (born in Kielce) lives and works in Poznań. She publishes online under the name Ptaszek powiedział mi, że (A Little Bird Told Me That). Her comics have appeared in print in the anthology Ciut, in Zeszyty Komiksowe, and in independent publications produced in connection with the Poznań Comic Art Festival. Alongside her publishing practice, she develops DIY zine projects, including the mini-series Dracutela.

Agata Estera Chudzik is a graduate of Computer Graphics. She developed her artistic practice through illustration, zine publishing, and work as a UX designer. Her work draws on nature, microbiological processes, and scientific illustration. Since October 2025, she has been working as a nurse in an intensive care unit. She is currently exploring crochet and textile-based techniques. In her spare time, she frequents flea markets, expanding her collections of porcelain dog figurines and lenticular postcards.

Crumble creates comics and illustrations. Their work most often focuses on intimate, everyday love stories, consistently centred on the recurring characters Marta and Luca. The pair debuted in Shrinking Violet, an original comic published by Klub Zin in 2021, and have since appeared in zines such as Amorocito, Timmy Zin, and Frankenstein.

Zosia Dzierżawska is an illustrator of children’s books, a press illustrator, and a comics author and artist. She collaborates with publishers across Europe and the United States. Her illustrations have received distinctions at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (2014, 2017) and from the Society of Illustrators in New York (2016, 2020). She is a co-founder of the Milan-based illustration studio Armadillo. In 2016, her debut autobiographical comic A Testa in Giù (Upside Down) was published in Italy. Her shorter comics have appeared, among others, in the German magazine Strapazin, the Latvian kuš!komiks, and the New York-based Smoke Signal. Her graphic novel Eileen Gray. House Under the Sun has been published in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Spain, and Poland (Marginesy).

Potato Face (Katarzyna Belczyk) has presented her work in the exhibition Rok pod kreską (A Year Under the Line) at the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw. She created graphic works for the theatre production Lista Uchybień (List of Shortcomings), and regularly contributes illustrated visual jokes to "Magazyn Pismo".

Ala Flora is an illustrator from Cracow. You can find out more about at: alaflora.net

Renata Gąsiorowska is a Polish artist working in drawing, animation, and comics. She is a graduate of the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. Her comics have been published in magazines, anthologies, and zines. Her comic album Jungle Night was published by the Latvian comics publisher kuš! She is the author of the films Łukasz and Lotta, An Extraordinary Night, and House in a Shell, produced for HBO as part of the pandemic series At Home. Her short animated film Pussy has received numerous international awards. She is a member of the Maszin collective.

Joanna Grochocka is a visual artist and illustrator. She received the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York in the Book Illustration category (2019), and in 2022 was awarded Gold at the Polish Graphic Design Awards in the Press Illustration category. Her illustrated book The New York Times Cultured Traveler was recently published by Taschen. Her clients and collaborators include The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and the Polish National Opera. Since 2016, she has been a regular contributor to Przekrój magazine, where she authors, among other features, the illustrated column Illustrated Excerpts, creating visual interpretations of selected literary texts. She has also created scenography and set design for artistic, theatrical, and fashion events, including projects for Galeria Arsenał, Polish Television Theatre, and TFH Concept. In her practice, she values lightness, energy, and imaginative freedom—moments of stepping away from habitual patterns of thinking and logic, which refresh the mind and activate creative potential, often suppressed when we follow “common sense” too closely. Raised in Sopot, she studied Philosophy at the University of Gdańsk and later studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She lives and works in Warsaw.

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javvie is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Poznań and works across animation, directing, illustration, and comics. She is the author of comics including Papatu Para Para Comic Shorts and How I Got into Ciut. She is a regular participant in comics festivals and is also active on TikTok, where she is widely known for her relationship with xuh and for her gouache portraits of Hatsune Miku.

Anna Krztoń is a comics artist and illustrator. She is the author of numerous autobiographical zines as well as the albums Pull Yourself Together (Wydawnictwo Komiksowe, 2018), Karolina and Klara. The Medallion of Time (Kosmos for Girls Foundation, 2021), created from a script by Sebastian Frąckiewicz, and two volumes of the anthology Life and Holidays (Wydawnictwo Granda, 2022 and 2023). She also illustrated the graphic novella for young adults Domestic Fluff, drawn from a script by Weronika Łodyga (Wydawnictwo Young, 2023). She works at Otwarta Pracownia Jazdów and lives in Warsaw.

kth has lived in Kraków for most of her life, except for the first 18 years. She enjoys paper, old shoujo manga, cycling, and her cat. Since 2016, kth has been creating short-form comics. In 2023, she received the Grand Prix at the International Comics and Games Festival. In everyday life, she “sells her soul” working in the gambling industry, trying to bend space-time enough to enable her to make comics in the spare time.

Agata Kwiatkowska works at the Żoliborz Local Center, where she educates about artivism. She earned her Master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the Game and Comics Design studio, where she explored activist values close to her heart. In her free time, she spends her money on comics, figurines, good food, and cinema.

Adela Madej is a graphic designer and a graduate of the Polish Culture Institute at the University of Warsaw and New Media Arts at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She lives and works in Warsaw. Her clients have included major brands such as Adidas and Converse, while her illustrations also support local businesses, including Psyjaciele and Coffeelab. She designs posters, logos, and illustrations. Her signature style is defined by bold colors, strong contours, playful wordplay, and a sense of humor.

Marta Michalik is a student of Animated Film and Special Effects at the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. In 2025, she debuted on the Polish independent comics scene with her self-published album Wernisaż, which had its international premiere at the online Shortbox Comics Fair. She is also a co-creator of Paszcza Komiksowa.

paplaLala (Agnieszka Szczepaniak) is a comics artist based in the Tricity area of Poland. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Poland – in Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, and the Tricity region – as well as internationally, in Riga, Kaunas, Linz, and Stockholm. An exhibition of her drawings launched the No Women No Art Gallery in Poznań. Her works have also been exhibited at Galeria Łącznik in Kraków, the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, and Galeria ORIENT in Szczecin. Her comics have been presented during V-Day in Poznań, Fantasy Days in Wrocław, and the ¿UNDERGROUND/INDEPENDENT? festival in Białystok. Her illustrations have appeared in Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Bałtycki, Wysokie Obcasy, and Metro. She has created comic series for polki.pl, e-teatr.pl, and the Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk. A campaign featuring her illustrations promoted cervical cancer prevention in the Pomeranian region. Her drawings have been included in the anthologies Polish Female Comics and Polish Female Comics: Double Portrait. She regularly publishes her work on her website:  www.paplalala.com.

Julia Płoch is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She works as a draftsman, illustrator, and animator. Her narrative, detailed illustrations are filled with strange situations and grotesque creatures – frogs, worms, and mysterious characters. Her works are primarily created with gouache, pencil, colored pencils, and oil pastels, often originating in numerous sketchbooks and notebooks. She also works in short-form comics, which have appeared in anthologies (Klub Zin, Ciut, Mydło, Brudno), online (Vice.com, Korporacja Ha!Art), and in exhibitions (FAK, Bubipop Gallery). Her solo comic An Eye for an Eye was published in 2018 by Klub, and an animated film of the same title has been screened at animation festivals worldwide.

Beata Pytko is a comics artist from Warsaw, trained as an architect. She completed a master’s thesis on housing estates and urban planning in science fiction films but left architecture to pursue fulfillment in comics. Her debut work, Mord na dzielni, addresses themes of gentrification and professional burnout. Between larger projects, she creates short-form comics for zines. Her work often explores urban sociology and mental health. Privately, she is a dog lover, drummer, and head chef of her own kitchen.

Marta Tomiak is an illustrator, graphic designer, and aspiring ceramist. She graduated in Graphic Design from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań. A devoted fan of Riso printers and analog printing techniques, she is currently half of the teams behind TOGU Riso Press and Santa Gruz Studio.

Zuzanna Wołejko is an illustrator, visual artist, and graphic designer. Her work is inspired by science fiction and biological sciences. She graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her diploma project, Holobiont, was nominated for the Polish Graphic Design Awards in the Best Diploma category. As part of the Erasmus+ program, she studied in Marseille and completed an internship at the publisher Le Dernier Cri. She has collaborated with the Warsaw-based publisher Oficyna Peryferie. Her work has been exhibited at Fotofestiwal in Łódź, BWA Wrocław, two editions of the Fringe Festival of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and in a solo exhibition at Przyszła Niedoszła Gallery.