The Chair for Comic Studies SM-UV Foundation is collaborating with the Valencian Association of Comic in the organisation of the 10th Comic Conference which will be held from 24 to 26 September at the La Nau Cultural Centre.
The Chair for Comic Studies SM-UV Foundation is collaborating with the Valencian Association of Comic in the organisation of the 10th Comic Conference which will be held from 24 to 26 September at the La Nau Cultural Centre.
Most of the activities, as well as the comic fair, will be held from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September in the Cloister of the La Nau Cultural Centre of the Universitat de València. More than 30 stands of publishers and bookshops will be an attraction for the public, who will be able to attend tens of free meetings and presentations with authors, as well as an exhibition that will remain open until 10 October. Paco Camallonga and Jorge Palomar, Núria Tamarit, Santi Selvi, Sergio Bleda, Don Rogelio, Victor Puchalski, Paco Roca, Salvador Larroca, Miguel Á. Giner Bou, Cristina Durán, Cels Piñol, Mamen Moreu, Ana Oncina, Albert Monteys, Aneke and Fernando Dagnino, Toni Fejzula, Sal Donaire, Robert García Peñuelas, Mayte Alvarado and Horacio Altuna are the guests of this celebratory edition, which will also include a tribute to the recently deceased Valencian illustrator Gerard Miquel. The conference will include children's workshops during the event, and will be preceded by workshops by Pedro Cifuentes on the use of comic in the classroom and by Miguel A. Giner Bou on scripts and graphic narrative from the 20. In addition, during the event a masterclass will be held by Eisner Award Winner Salvador Larroca, and a workshop on social comic by Dialoga2. During the conference there will be signing sessions with guest authors. In order to meet the sanitary conditions derived from the pandemic, attendance to the activities requires prior registration.
In addition, within the framework of this edition, on Thursday 23, opens the exhibition ‘Fantasia Made in VLC. The fantastic worlds of Rafa Fonteriz, Jaime Brocal-Remohí and Núria Tamarit' (Sala Oberta, La Nau Cultural Centre), which brings together the work of three authors who represent the evolution of this genre in the Valencian Community. The originals by Jaime Brocal-Remohí, Rafa Fonteriz and Núria Tamarit will show how the city of València has been the capital of fantastic comic and has played a leading role in its evolution over the last fifty years. The three authors are examples of three very different generations in form and background, but who have approached fantasy with distinction and who have excelled in both the national and international markets. The exhibition is curated by the head of the Comic Society of the Universitat de València, Álvaro Pons.
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