Ana Penyas

Invitado de Honor

(Valencia, 1987) is an illustrator and author of comics. In 2016, she won the VII Catálogo Iberoamericano Ilustra with the series Buscando un sitio. In 2017, she received the Premio Internacional de Novela Gráfica Fnac-Salamandra Graphic, thanks to which she published her first graphic novel We're all just fine (2017, Salamandra Graphic), where she talks about her grandmothers and the generation of women who grew up in the Franco era, and for which she received the Premio de Autora Revelación Nacional at the Salón del Cómic in Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de Cómic 2018.

She has published several illustrated albums, highlighting her work around historical memory: En transición (2017, Barlin libros) and Mexique, el nombre del barco (2017, El zorro rojo). She has worked as an illustrator on various feminist projects such as Pikara Magazine, the Jo tambè vaig ser piquetera calendar, and the illustrated notebook Biosindicalismo desde los territorios domésticos (2021, La Laboratorio and Fundación Rosa Luxemburg).

In 2021, she published Todo bajo el sol (2018, Salamandra Graphic), a reflection on the transformation of the Spanish Mediterranean coast as a result of tourism, which won the Éco-Fauve RAJA Award for Sous le soleil at the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême  (2023, 50th edition) and the ACDCómic Award for the best national work 2021.

In 2022, she developed, with anthropologist Alba Herrero Garcés, En una casa.Genealogía del trabajo del hogar y los cuidados, at the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, IVAM (11/2022-04/2023). The exhibition aimed to create a dialogue between ethnography and artistic creation, expanding collective, subaltern memory based on the experiences of workers and employers.

She is currently working on a new comic book, again with Salamandra Graphic, to be published in the fall of 2025.

Other activities involving the participant:

Free time with a tourist personality
#LeemosCómics con Ana Penyas y María Luque

Magius

Invitado de Honor

(Murcia, 1981) is a comic book author. He adopted his pseudonym in 2001, as a tribute to the 10th-century miniaturist monk of the same name, a significant medieval reference in his work. He began in the world of fanzines in 1998 with a student horror-comedy fanzine. On September 10, 2001, he published the fanzine Black Metal Comix, and in 2012, he compiled the best stories into a 200-page volume. Black Metal Comix tells the wild real-life stories of black metal bands, always with a tone of dark humor. Starting in 2012, he created fanzines such as Murcia, Clásicos caninos, and Hammon. To publish these fanzines, he alternated between the pseudonyms "Magius" and "Yo, Perro," using the latter for stories featuring zoomorphic characters.

In the spring of 2015, Entrecómics Cómics published his album Murcia, which expanded on the story that had appeared in a couple of fanzines of the same title in 2013. Murcia is a comic where the city itself takes center stage, highlighting the quirky aspects of its customs and traditions. In April 2018, Autsaider Cómics published his graphic novel El Método Gemini, a story about Italian-American mobsters in 1970s New York, in true Scorsese style.

On July 16, 2020, the graphic novel Primavera para Madrid was published, a fictional but almost journalistic chronicle inspired by various political corruption cases. For this work, he received the Premio Nacional de Cómic in October 2021 from the Ministry of Culture of Spain.

Luci Gutiérrez

Invitado de Honor

(Barcelona, 1977), after finishing her studies in illustration at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona in 2001, has worked in fields as diverse as advertising, press and books.

In 2007, she lived for a time in New York. She didn't quite master English, but she drew and wrote enough to write English Is Not Easy, a book for learning it and of which many editions have been made all over the world.

In 2019, she published Manual de autodefensa, her second book as sole author, which makes it clear that life, like English, is not easy.

She has also illustrated Las mujeres y los hombres, which won a prize at the Bologna Fair in 2016, and other titles by the Italian publishing firm Orecchio Acerbo, such as L'albergo delle fiabe, Miss Galassia and La valigia delle carabattole.

Her stay in America also resulted in regular collaborations with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker, where she illustrates the "Shouts & Murmurs" section weekly.

More recently, her work has been recognized with the Society of Illustrators Award in New York; the Gràffica Award, presented by design and visual communication professionals in Spain, and in 2023, she received the National Illustration Award from the Ministry of Culture.

Other activities involving the participant:

Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature

Kike Infame

He is a graphic designer, illustrator, and comic book artist. He is currently the president of Euskal Irudigileak (the Professional Association of Illustrators of Euskadi) and Fadip (the Federation of Professional Illustration Associations).

As an author, he is known for his work as a comic book artist, publishing titles with Astiberri (“El hombre que vino del cielo”) and Dolmen (“Corina y el pistolero,” “Quatroccento”), as well as self-publishing the series Morirse en Bilbao.

He collaborates in various media as a disseminator, particularly known for his work as an interviewer and event organizer. Along with Mikel Begoña, he co-authored the book Komikia about Basque comics (1975-2017). Later, with Álex Oviedo, he co-wrote Irudigileak and Hormetan, books focused on illustration and posters in Bizkaia. He has also published interview-based books: Con los codos pegados al torso with Mauro Entrialgo and Back to Black with Víctor Santos.

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Opening Ceremony