This isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a collision of worlds on paper. Picture illustrators from across generations and borders swapping sketches, trading stories and trying to map out futures that don’t always follow straight lines. The physical fair buzzes with shortlisted artists showing and selling their work, but even those who don’t make the floor find space online at BangkokIllustrationFair.com, a kind of digital sketchbook open to all. Over 50 reviewers – curators, publishers, agencies – move through the fair like treasure hunters, each expected to pick at least one artist for future collaboration. Rewards here aren’t trophies but chances, opportunities that might stretch well beyond Bangkok. The whole thing is stitched together by a community determined to prove illustration isn’t niche, it’s necessary.
October 23-26. Free. Central World, 11am-8pm