Taiwan is to host an international comic festival, with creators, publishers and platform representatives from home and abroad taking part in exhibitions and business meetings.

Preparations include displays of original artwork, conversations with artists and a rights advisory desk, with arrangements to connect creators to overseas publishers for licensing.

Taiwan's comics sector has to a considerable extent depended on artists making their own way abroad. Formalising translation and rights procedures through an official event is cited as the background to the festival.

The centre of gravity in East Asia's comics market is shifting from printed volumes to online serialisation, where platform contracts and revenue splits bear directly on what creators earn.

Participants from South Korea, Japan and South-East Asia are expected to attend, with translation across languages identified as the key to exchange.

The organisers are to release the schedule and list of participants in stages.