Comic Exhibition Opens Showing Untold Stories of Musicians

A comic exhibition entitled Rajz & Roll (Draw & Roll) opens on March 29 in Budapest’s Savoya Park plaza. The spectacle will give an insight into the real and fictional adventures of musicians and bands of international (The Beatles, Nirvana) and Hungarian (Ganxsta Zolee and Kartel, Kispál és a Borz, Hooligans, Road) origin.

The creators are the Master-Lab Comics team. The duo consists of former musicians: Csaba Mester, the bassist of the Hungarian trash-metal band, Badlam and Attila Tóth-Laboncz, the bassist of the still very popular Tankcsapda. They both left their bands in the 90s and started making comics together in 2022 with Csaba Mester creating the drawings and Attila Tóth-Laboncz writing the dialogue.

Some comics are based on real events, such as Nirvana’s concert in Hungary. The band, then unknown even in America, gave a concert in the now closed Petőfi Csarnok located in Budapest’s City Park on November 21, 1989. Two years later the song Smells Like Teen Spirit made them world famous.

The frames are based on the testimonies of people who were present at the concert in Budapest and backstage.

There are also documentary comics about American singer Henry Rollins and Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a road accident.

The pieces in the exhibition are accompanied by commentaries by music journalists. The Rajz & Roll exhibition can be seen free of charge from March 29 to April 6 in Savoya Park in Budapest.

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