Ivanka Hahnenberger
Ivanka Hahnenberger is a Franco-American citizen who has led an international career in business management, finance, film, television and digital production. In 2007 she bought a brand-licensing company, VIP, which she transformed into VIP Brands, a comics agency, translation and consulting company. As an agency they represent world English rights for German, French and African comics publishers. As a consultancy they organise world comics events.
Hahnenberger translates comics and much more from French and German into English. She has translated Blue is the warmest colour by Julie Maroh, An Olympic dream by Reinhard Kleist, and Catherine’s War by Julia Billet, illustrated by Claire Fauvel, which was named a Batchelder Award Honor Book, and Madame Livingstone, written by Christophe Cassiau-Haurie and illustrated by Barly Baruti.
#ReadingAfrica | The comics panel
2021-12-07African comics are created for Africans, not the East, nor the West. “I draw myself,” one panellist said. Yet many African comics find their way into Europe, simply because our comics are of international quality.