Sebastián Ríos

Sebastián Ríos, Pepo's grandson and executor of the cartoonist's legacy.

Other activities involving the participant:

Presentation of the book "The art of Pepo"

Rupa

With studies at the prestigious School of Fine Arts in Viña del Mar, he has developed a solid career in the production of comics and animation. He has worked on outstanding projects such as the animated series Heidi, collaborating with Editorial P.I.N.S.E.L., and in the production of advertising animation for television at Grafilms Estudios.
In his career, he has contributed to the iconic comic series Condorito, under the direction of René Ríos Boettiger and later as art director for Editorial Televisa Chile. Among his other works, the production of the Don Rodrigo series for Plop magazine stands out, as well as his participation in the creation of internationally renowned comics such as Batman for DC Comics, and Disney comics for the company Ríos & Gana S.A..
He has also participated in international projects, such as the animated series Cabotage for French television and the Comics Project in Colombia, where he also exhibited his work at the Materón theater. Throughout his career, he has received important recognitions, such as the APES award and the prestigious 2024 Golden Eagle world award in the Art category.

Other activities involving the participant:

Drawing Condorito

Alberto Montt

He is a graphic designer and visual artist recognized for his illustration blog Dosis diaria, where he has published his cartoons since 2006. He has accumulated numerous publications around the world.

Luis Yáñez

Journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, cultural manager, promoter of the Pepo es de Conce initiative, which managed to have the creator of Condorito, René Ríos, named illustrious son of his hometown, Concepción, and president of the Pepo Foundation.

Enrique Flores Sandoval

Graduated from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, from the Faculty of Medicine. Independent writer and founder of Cómictlan.

Writer of Cómictlan for more than 10 years. Participation in various national and international events as a special guest, among the main ones are: the FILZ, Guadalajara Book Fair and FILIJ. Representative of Mexico in two world events in Japan, JMAF and the XI International Manga Contest, Comic Con of Costa Rica, Costa Rica Book Fair, Panama Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair and Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême.

Currently 6 of his works have international distribution in Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, thanks to the Mexican company "TRILLAS".

Writer of the graphic novel Yatzil (The daughter of death), Finalist in Spain with the illustrated novel Ehécatl, lord of the wind.

Sareki

Throughout her career, she has been a special guest at more than twenty book fairs, including the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) and the International Children's and Youth Book Fair (FILIJ). She has taught graphic narrative workshops in both private schools and government institutions, sharing her experience and promoting graphic art. Thanks to her dedication, she has the sponsorship of recognized brands in the artistic field such as Pentel, XP-Pen, Prismacolor and Faber Castell.

She has represented Mexico at two important international events in Japan: the Japan Media Arts Festival (JMAF) and the XI International Manga Competition. In addition, she has been a special guest at the Comic Con in Costa Rica and at the Costa Rica Book Fair in 2022 and 2023. Currently, six of her works have international distribution in countries such as Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, in collaboration with the Mexican publishing house TRILLAS.

She has also represented Mexico at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the most important publishing event in the world. She was also invited as an illustrator to the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN)'s annual "Robot War" event and to the 2023 Panama International Book Fair. Finally, she was honored as a special guest in the manga section of the prestigious Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême in France, the most important graphic narrative festival worldwide.

Other activities involving the participant:

Introduction to Comics by Sareki

Tomeu Pinya

(Palma, 1982) is a comic book illustrator and scriptwriter.

He has published, among others, Un Pueblo Blanco: el bar del barbudo (Planeta, 2009), which won the popular New Author Award at the Barcelona Comic Fair, and La marea de San Pedro (Astiberri, 2010), nominated for best script at the Madrid Expocómic. He coordinated the collective publication Yes, We Camp! (Dibbuks, 2011) about the 15-M and drew Adaptación (Ed. De Ponent, 2013) with a script by Josep Busquet. He was also in charge of the adaptation of the renowned novel La Catedral del Mar, by Ildefonso Falcones (Random House, 2018) with a script by Pilar Alonso. He has just published Loquios (Dolmen, 2023) adapting the play Loquis by Neus Nadal.

He is currently preparing his next project, Posturism, with a script by Alejandro Pérez and Ángel Pazos.

Rosario Lucas

Born in the State of Mexico in 1994, she is a graphic designer from the UAM Azcapotzalco and studied illustration in the "CASA: Narrative Illustration" diploma course at UNAM. Her career includes work as an editorial illustrator at El Universal (2015-2018) and collaborations with magazines such as Letras Libres, Chilango and Marvin.
She has been selected in the Catalogue of Illustrators of Children's and Youth Publications of the Ministry of Culture in several editions and has participated in the Pictoline Illustration Biennial, with pieces exhibited at the Digital Culture Center and the National Museum of Anthropology and History.
Among her notable projects are the graphic novel "No fue el fuego", winner of the 2022 Gabo Prize in the Coverage category, and the illustrated book Canción de protesta por lxs Jóvenes detenidxs desaparecidxs, winner in the Banco del Libro Youth Originals category in 2024. Her work explores themes of social justice, feminism, and human rights, frequently collaborating with authors and journalists to bring to light the complex realities of Mexico and Latin America.

Josefina Larragoiti

Graphic designer from the Faculty of Arts and Design of UNAM, with a Master's in Mesoamerican Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM, and a Master's in International Humanitarian Action from the Hebrew University. Academic at UNAM, teaching courses on the publishing world for 23 years.
Founder and Director of Editorial Resistencia for 26 years, where she publishes novels, short stories, essays, poetry, children's books and graphic narratives, promoting mainly the work of Mexican authors.
For 11 years she has published the collection of illustrated children's books, trilingual editions: indigenous language, Spanish, English, among which 9 books have augmented reality applications with animation and audio in the three languages. Currently the collection has 19 titles. In 2007 she encouraged the publication and distribution in bookstores of comics and narratives by outstanding Mexican authors. Currently, this collection of Mexican graphic narrative has 43 titles, among which the new publication will be “Posada. Life is worth nothing and the loose leaf is worth a cent” by the artist and cartoonist Gonzalo Rocha “Rocha”, a pre-launch graphic novel that we are presenting at this fair.

Other activities involving the participant:

Presentation of the Graphic Novel: Posada, life is worth nothing and the loose leaf is worth a penny.

Philippe Fenech

With a career spanning more than 20 years, Philippe Fenech (1976, Montpellier) decided to become a cartoonist after reading Asterix. He studied filmmaking from 1994 to 2000 to become Spielberg, but that position was already taken, so he returned to his first passion: comics.

His first work as a cartoonist was published in a regional newspaper with the character Requin Barjot. In 2001, he began to create illustrations and comic strips for Disney France magazines, before publishing his first comic in 2004. Between 2004 and 2013, he drew the series Tuff et Koala, Anatole et compagnie, L’Empire des Mecchas, Leo, Passion Rugby, Un Héros presque parfait and Ulysse. In 2013, he became the illustrator of the successful series Mes Cop’s, with Christophe Cazenove on the script. Since 2021, he is also co-author of the series Idéfix et les Irréductibles, based on the Asterix universe.

Bea Lema

Invitado de Honor

She is an illustrator and comic author. She uses embroidery and weaving as mediums to transfer her images. Her work, generally autobiographical, addresses themes related to madness, trauma, family relationships, religion, and popular rituals.

In 2018, she published O Corpo de Cristo, which won the XII Premio Castelao from the Diputación de A Coruña. El cuerpo de Cristo (Astiberri, 2023), based on the previous edition, has been published in France and Italy, and will be released in Portugal soon. The project was awarded a grant for a graphic novel residency at the Maison des Auteurs in 2022, thanks to Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Cité Internationale de la Bande dessinée et de L’image, with the collaboration of the French Embassy in Spain. In 2024, she received the France Télévisions Public Award for this work at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, a globally recognized event.

Other activities involving the participant:

Illustrating, Narrating: From Comics to Film

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
Social Context: Album and Comic as Engines of Change

María Luque

María Luque was born in Rosario and lives in Buenos Aires. Since 2005, she has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She works as an editorial illustrator and coordinates workshops. In 2011, she created the project “Merienda dibujo,” a series of meetings with artists. She is a co-founder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo. She participated in “Informe, historieta argentina del siglo XXI,” published by Editorial Municipal de Rosario.

She is the author of La mano del pintor, a graphic novel about Cándido López (Sigilo, 2016; L'Agrume Éditions 2017; Lote 42 2019), Casa transparente (Sexto Piso, Premio Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas), Espuma (Galería Editorial, 2018), Noticias de pintores (Sigilo, 2019), and Corazón geométrico (Sigilo, 2022). In 2022, she received a Konex Award, Diploma of Merit in Humor and Comic.

Other activities involving the participant:

Illustrating the Everyday and Other Mediums
Networks between spaces and authors: The importance of the existence of projects that manage and accompany authors

Eva Cabrera

Vegan Witch & Comicbook Artist, Nominated for the Will Eisner Award and GLAAD Media Awards, Eva Cabrera is co-founder of the Mexican studio BoudikaComics. She was born in Veracruz, Mexico, but most of the time she likes to travel and visit other places to cultivate her imagination.

She loves animals, books, and art. In her free time she likes to watch series, movies, and play video games.

Since she was little, she has been fascinated by telling stories through cartoons. As she grew up, she has developed her work as a professional comic book artist and something that has become very important to her is to represent women comic creators in Mexico at a national and international level.

She drew the Betty & Veronica: Vixens series from Archie Comics, Kim&Kim from Black Mask Studio [Comic with three nominations], and has worked with publishers such as Oni Press, ComiXology Originals, Andrews McMeel, etc. He has created covers for Cartoon Network's Adventure Time series for the publishing house BOOM Studios.

Elena Bazán

Professional in the Spanish-language print and digital publishing industry with extensive experience in the creation, management, and distribution of electronic and audio content. She has collaborated with various companies and publishers in Mexico, Spain, Germany, and China. Speaker and teacher on topics in the digital publishing industry. Editor and author. She creates books in all formats for all audiences. She is currently the leader of editorial production at audiolibre publishing.

audiolibre is a Mexican audio publishing company founded in 2023. With an experienced team that has developed hundreds of audiobooks and an audio-first vision, it is dedicated to the creation and management of audio catalogs, production, and distribution of audiobooks in Spanish, focused on the Mexican and North American markets.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony

Eduardo Elorz Barría

Visual artist and cultural manager - Festival Director.

Idalia Candelas

Illustrator, comic book author, contributor to El Chamuco and the Children of Hell and El País.

Other activities involving the participant:

Presentation of the comic "Felina"

Pablo Guerra

Screenwriter, editor and comic book critic. Editor-in-chief of Cohete Comics.