Held at Palau de Cerveró of the University of Valencia, the exhibition ‘Darwin and Galileo in a comic. Illustrations by Jordi Bayarri’ includes a selection of pictures from the comics project Colección Científicos, as well as their creative process The show presents the life and works of the first two main characters of the collection: Charles Darwin and Galileo Galilei.

Created by cartoonist Jordi Bayarri and science historian Tayra Lanuza, the Colección Científicos project is intended to disseminate knowledge about great figures in the history of science, based on the information produced in research centres and studies by professionals in this field, through the publication of a collection of biographical comics aimed at young audiences. The collection began with Charles Darwin and followed with Galileo Galilei in July 2013. It will continue with other figures such as Isaac Newton and Marie Curie.

In addition to many of the cartoons that are part of the scientific biography drawn, the exhibition shows some original pages and sketches by the artist, allowing us to see the making of the comics featuring Galileo and Darwin.

The script, editing and drawing of the comics is by Jordi Bayarri Dolz, a professional cartoonist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has professional experience as a scriptwriter and an illustrator of a number of comics targeted at children and youngsters as well as adult audiences, since 1998. He is the author of the comic Darwin, la evolución de la teoría, the direct predecessor of this project, and an example of scientific biography comics. He is also the writer and illustrator of other young-adult comics such as the monographs Titán del Pasado, Piel de Dragón, and eight issues of the series Entre Tinieblas (Aleta Publishers), awarded the 2004 Prize to the Best National Scriptwriter in Expocómic, the International Comic Exhibition held in Madrid. He is the writer and illustrator of the comic Las extraordinarias aventuras de Nicholas Campion y Mordechai Feingold: la ciudad oculta de Alejandro Magno. Set in the nineteenth century, this historic fantasy comic is also aimed at young readers. It earned the author the first prize of the 2009 competition Dibuixant entre Cultures, organised by Fundació Tres Cultures. The comic was jointly published by this international cultural foundation and the publishing house Viaje a Bizancio in 2010.

Tayra M. C. Lanuza Navarro is responsible for the historic and scientific supervision of the volumes. She has a Ph.D. in History, in the area of History of Science, from the University of Valencia. She is a researcher specialized in modern-age physics and mathematics from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, and has professional experience in education in history of science at university level. She also carries out science dissemination tasks.