Adam Radoń

Adam Radoń (born July 8, 1971, in Brodnica) is a graphic designer, cultural manager, and long-time director of the International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź, and initiator of numerous activities promoting the art of comics in Poland. He is the head of the Centre for Comics and Interactive Narrative in Łódź, a department of the EC1 Łódź – City of Culture institution.

Biography

Adam Radoń was born in Brodnica and grew up in Łódź. From an early age, he was interested in drawing, art, and particularly comics. He graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Łódź and then studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. After graduating, he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for Telewizja Polska, Bank Ochrony Środowiska, advertising agencies and music companies.

Radoń's goal was to raise the profile of comics as a form of visual art in Poland and recognize it as a fully-fledged art form. His activities stemmed from the belief that comics are a complex and demanding form of artistic expression, unfairly devalued in the Polish People's Republic as a manifestation of low-value mass culture.

Radoń contributed to the internationalization of the Polish comics scene by establishing contacts with foreign creators and specialists. In 2006, he organized an exhibition of Polish comics in Brussels. He has presented Belgian comics numerous times at the International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź, to which he has invited Belgian creators, including Yves Swolfs, Yves Sente, Jul Maroh, Marvano, Daniel Henrotin, Stephen Desberg and others.

Honors and awards

On April 3, 2014, he was awarded the Order of Leopold II for his work promoting Belgian cultural works in Poland and vice versa.