Ivanka Hahnenberger talked to host Alex Fitch about her company, VIP Brands, that helped bring Paul Gravett's much-loved Comica Festival back to London in March for its 10th anniversary, with a number of events at The Century Club in Soho.
Hahnenberger has a long running connection with comics as a translator, working on the English versions of Blue is the Warmest Colour by Julie Maroh, An Olympic Dream by Reinhard Kleist, Parallel by Matthias Lehmann and many others.
She has previously curated comics programming at Frankfurt Book Fair and Bologna Children's Book Fair, is a consultant to EuropeComics, and sells rights for Glenat, the famous French comics publisher.
