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Barcelona International Comics Convention
Comic Barcelona is an annual fair and convention of authors, publishers and comic readers, managed by . It takes place in the city of Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ... since 1981, and is an event of reference on the Spanish comic market. Prizes The Prizes are awarded to the best works published on the year preceding the Convention. An exception is the Gran Premi del Saló (Grand Prize of Comic Barcelona), which is awarded to an author based on his entire career. The most relevant prizes are: *Prize to the ''Best Work'', for comics published in Spanish on the last year. *Prize to the ''Best Script'', awarded since 1995. *Prize "Josep Toutain" to the ''Best New Talent''. *''Best Foreign Work'' published in Spain. *Prize to the ''Best fanzine''. *Prize to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Sanchis Grau
José Sanchis Grau (19 June 1932 – 2 August 2011) was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like ''Pumby'' (1954) and ''Robín Robot'' (1972). Biography Early years Sanchis was born in Valencia, Spain, Valencia. He started drawing for money when he was 16 years old, in 1948, and later for the magazine ''Jaimito (magazine), Jaimito'', with his first recurring character, ''El soldadito Pepe''. Despite being accidentally wounded by gunfire in 1950, he continued to draw for the editorial for the magazine "Cubilete" and the press of Valencia, giving life to series of minor significance, such as ''El Machote'', ''El Recluta Policarpo'', ''Pandolfito Cebollínez'', ''Gaspar'', etc. Maturity In 1954, on the number 260 of the magazine ''Jaimito'', appeared his most prominent character, the cat Pumby, in whose series the author gave free rein to his fantasy, quickly connecting with y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Miralles
Ana Miralles (born 16 December 1959; also spelled as Ana Mirallès) is a Spanish comic books artist, known particularly for her treatment of erotic subjects. After a degree in fine arts, she became an illustrator for publishing houses Gregal, Teide and Bromera. She later worked increasingly in bande dessinée comic books, first finding publication in 1982 with the Spanish adult comic magazine '' Rambla''. Her first black-and-white album, '' El Brillo de una Mirada'', came out in 1990, written by Emilio Ruiz. This was later coloured and released in France as ''Corps à corps''. Her first comic series was the '' Eva Médusa'' trilogy, set in Brazil in the 1920s, which she made with Antonio Segura; the first volume was published in 1991. She worked again with Ruiz on '' A la Recherche de la Licorne'' from 1997 (an adaptation of Juan Eslava Galan's bestselling novel). In 2001 she created ''Djinn'' with Jean Dufaux Jean Dufaux (; born 7 June 1949) is a Belgian comic book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasqual Ferry
Pasqual Ferrándiz Arroyo (born March 24, 1961), known by the pen-name Pasqual Ferry (sometimes credited as Paschalis, Pascual or Pascal Ferry), is a Spanish comic book artist and penciller. Biography Ferry was interested in comics from an early age, stating his first love in comics "was Franquin, Mézières, especially and Moebius". Ferry's interest in superhero comics came after a visit to the offices of Marvel Comics in New York. In Spain, Ferry worked for Albert Rué's animation studio, as well as publishing work in a number of Spanish comic magazines. In 1993, Ferry created the character Plasmer with writer Glenn Dakin for an eponymous 4-issue miniseries for Marvel UK. When Marvel UK closed in 1995, Ferry moved to working for Marvel Comics. After providing fill-in for several issues of X-Men-related comics, he launched the first ''Heroes for Hire'' series in 1997 with Roger Stern and John Ostrander, and would provide pencils on 15 of the 19 issues. In 1999, Ferry pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguelanxo Prado
Miguelanxo Prado () is a Galician people, Galician comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Spain in 1958. Biography Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics. He worked for several magazines and wrote delirious and fierce life-chronicles. He published his first albums at Les Humanoïdes Associés: ''Chienne de Vie'' (1988), ''C'est du Sport'' (1989) and ''Y'a Plus de Justice'' (1991). His best-known comic book is ''Trazo de Tiza'' or ''Trait de craie'' (''Streak of Chalk'', 1992). This is a dream-like, experimental "impossible" story about a man on an island, unable to distinguish dream from reality, or present from past. For this album, Prado won several awards, among others the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album, Alph'Art for the Best Foreign Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, receiving this award for the second time; the first time was in 1991 for ''Manuel Montano''. In April 2007 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor De La Fuente
Víctor is a Spanish masculine given name, equivalent to Victor in English and Vítor in Portuguese. Notable people with the given name include: * Víctor Barrio (1987–2016), Spanish bullfighter * Víctor Cabrera (Argentine footballer) * Víctor Cabrera (Chilean footballer) * Víctor Hugo Cabrera, actor * Víctor Manuel Camacho, politician * Víctor Carrillo, football referee * Víctor Hermosillo y Celada, politician * Víctor Raul Díaz Chávez, politician * Víctor Casadesús, footballer * Víctor Emeric, politician * Víctor Espárrago, football coach *Víctor Fernández, football coach *Víctor Manuel García Valdés (1897–1969), Cuban painter * Victor Garcia (director) * Victor G. Garcia III, ambassador *Víctor García (Spanish singer) * Víctor García (Mexican singer) * Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde, politician * Víctor García (racing driver) *Víctor García (volleyball) *Víctor Garcia (Spanish director) *Víctor García (runner) * Víctor Hugo García, football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Giménez (comics)
Carlos Giménez (born 6 March 1941) is a Spanish comics artist. Biography Giménez was born in Madrid. His father, a welder, died shortly after his birth, and subsequently Giménez lived for years in an orphanage. Aged 17, he showed his drawings to Manuel López Blanco, who hired him as assistant for his works for Ibergraf agency. After 1962, he shared a studio with Esteban Maroto and Adolfo Usero, executing war stories for Editorial Maga and the series Buck Jones. After a period working for the Selecciones Illustradas agency at Barcelona, in 1963 Giménez launched ''El Gringo'', a western series, for Toutain; for the same publisher he also worked to several romantic comics books. In 1967-1968 he worked at ''Delta 99'', a science fiction series, and produced several humour stories for the German market (Tom Berry and Kiko 2000). The following year, Giménez began his first famous series, Dani Futuro, with script by Víctor Mora: initially appearing in the magazine ''Gaceta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio Altuna
Horacio Altuna (born November 24, 1941) is an Argentina, Argentine comics artist. Biography Altuna was born in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba. He began working in the comics world in 1965 for the publisher Editorial Columbia. His first characters were Titan, a Superman-like superhero, Kabul de Bengala (1971, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Armando Fernández among others), Big Norman, Hilario Corvalán and others. From 1973 to 1976, Altuna collaborated with Fleetway, Ediciones Record, Charlton Comics, ''Playboy'' and the French Les Humanoïdes Associés. Beginning in July 1975, for the newspaper ''Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Clarín'', Altuna together with writer Carlos Trillo created the character of journalist Hugo Chávez, better known as ''El loco Chavez (Crazy Chavez)'', for years one of the Argentine's most popular comics strips. Also with Trillo script, Altuna drew the series ''Charlie Moon'' and ''Las puertitas del señor López (Mr Lopez little doors)'' I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Beá
Josep Maria Beà i Font, in Spanish José Beá (born 11 March 1942) is a Spanish comic book artist. Career Born in Barcelona, Catalunya, Beá joined the art agency Selecciones Ilustradas at 15 and started his comic book career in the late 1950s when he worked for ''Fleetway'' in Britain. He also worked on ''Miller's TV Heroes'' during this period. In the early 1960s he worked on ''Space Ace'' for Atlas, as well as ''Lone Star''. He also worked on various British romance comics including ''Romeo'', ''Mirabelle'', ''Valentine'' and ''Jackie''. In 1962 Beá moved to Paris where he focused on painting rather than comic book art. Bea returned to comics in 1970 for the publication ''Dracula'' from Buru Lan, where he first started writing his own stories. His work for ''Dracula'' included the series ''Sir Leo'' as well as several stand-alone stories. Due to his connections with the Spanish agency Selecciones Illustrada, Beá started working for Warren Publishing in America in 1971, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan (comics)
Juan López Fernández (born 13 March 1939), better known by his pen name Jan, is a Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez. Biography He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados in the province of León. Completely deaf from the age of six, his parents encouraged him to draw and in 1956, he began to work in a studio in order to learn animation. He emigrated to Cuba in 1959 where he worked in ''Televisión Cubana'' (Cuban Television) and the ''Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos'' (ICAIC) (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry). He also collaborated on some periodicals for children at this time, and later, on comic books and newspaper supplements. Jan returned to Spain in 1969, and worked in the now defunct publishing house Editorial Bruguera until 1985 where he helped illustrate the work of other comic book artists. In 1973, however, Jan created Superlópez, a parodized version of Superman. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max (Spanish Cartoonist)
Francesc Capdevila Gisbert (born 17 September 1956), better known by his pen-name Max, is a Spanish artist who has worked in illustration, design, and comics. He is an important figure in Spanish comics, creating such popular characters as Gustavo and Peter Pank early in his career, and more recently Bardín. His Ligne claire, clear line style (indebted to the Valencian tradition) tells humorous, angry, and sad, surrealistic stories. Childhood and youth Capdevila was born in Barcelona on 17 September 1956. His early reading was dominated by publications of the Bruguera Publishing house, such as ''TBO'', ''Pumby'', and ''Jaimito''. He later came across American classics such as ''Flash Gordon'' and ''The Phantom'' and the Franco-Belgian albums of ''Asterix'' and ''The Adventures of Tintin''. In 1973 he joined the group El Rrollo (which included, among others, Nazario Luque, Nazario and Javier Mariscal), publishing his first comic strips in their fanzine ''The Masked Rrollo'', whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Quesada
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compared with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pero". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic ''Kephas'' or '' Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternative archaic variant is Pero. Notable people with the name Pedro include: Monarchs, mononymously *Pedro I of Portugal *Pedro II of Portugal *Pedro III of Portugal *Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil *Pedro V of Portugal *Pedro II of Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
