The fantastic language of comics
Posters Around 1970, posters featuring a new visual language began appearing on the streets of Geneva. Designed in the style of enlarged comic book illustrations, they told short stories.
Posters Around 1970, posters in a new visual language appeared on the streets of Geneva. They told short stories in the style of enlarged comic strip drawings, using imagination and a twinkle in the eye to authentically express the spirit of the political and cultural protest movement of the time. The Geneva comic poster is part of the long-standing tradition of illustrated posters in French-speaking Switzerland and has received little attention beyond the borders of French-speaking Switzerland. An exhibition aims to change this. From March 16, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich will be showing comic posters such as the one on the right in the display cases of the National Bank on Fraumünsterstrasse.
