FROM FRIDAY 28/2 ON SUNDAY 2/3
FAIR VALENCIA. Fires, s/n
With his first graphic novel, drawn with pen and marker, won the Golden Fauve of the Angoulême Festival, two Ignatz awards, three Eisner awards and the award for the best International Comic of the Barcelona Comic Fair. She is Emil Ferris and slammed the table with What I like most are monsters, comic of the year in more than one hundred lists in Europe and the United States. Art Spiegelman said about her, the famous author of the highly respected Maus, that “she is one of the most important graphic novel artists of our era”. Next to nothing. Es, definitely, The great attraction of this new edition of Valencia Comic Fair which hosts a good ristra of first -level national and international authors. Ferris will come ready to present her work and participate in meetings with the public, with the second part of What I like most are monsters under your arm, published in Spain last year.
The international roster is made up of three Frenchmen. Neyef will present Hoka hey!, a western about roots and identity; Jim Bishop will do the same with My friend Pierrot, a story that swings between philosophical fable, dreamlike fantasy and the most baroque romanticism; and the historian Vincent Lemire will tell us about the city that is the spiritual capital for more than half of humanity, condensed into a choral narrative that has taken six years of work, entitled History of Jerusalem. The Italian Miguel Vila, for his part, will present flying fortress, the story about an incident that Benito Mussolini tries to hide in fascist Italy: a mysterious aircraft has crashed in Lombardy. The Brazilian will visit us from outside Europe Marcelo D’Salete, who has explored in his comics the history of black resistance in Latin America; the moroccan Zainab Fasiki, with an exhibition that captures her feminist struggle through illustration; and the Guinean Eusebio Nsue Nsue, author who has participated in the collective book The Nobodys about the tragedy of the Melilla fence.
At the head of national talent, Paco Roca, author of the festival poster this year, next to Daniel Torres, who revisits his iconic character Roco Vargas in Memories of a future that was not; Emilio Ruiz y Ana Miralles paying tribute to Ava Gardner; and the master of the autobiographical and parody comic Ramón Boldu, that presents Biography of a social murder about the suicide of a trans boy after suffering bullying at school. Y Nuria Tamarit, Albert Monteys, Ana Obcina, Laura Perez, Nadia Hafid, Alvaro Ortiz, Jorge Fornés, Luis Bustos, Miguelanxo Prado… and many others.
From among the exhibitions, we highlight Comic classics: originals that made history with originals by authors who have been fundamental in the birth of comics and whose influence continues to this day. We will be able to see the adventures drawn by Harold Foster and Alex Raymond or the unmistakable lines of Charles Schulz and George Herriman. In addition to the authors and the exhibitions, The other leg of this macro event dedicated to comics is the Zone Asia, that gains more and more prominence with each new edition, seen the pull it has, especially among the youngest. There will be manga, anime, video games, cosplay, Hyemin's K-dance contest and live music, singer, Korean composer and performer and first K-POP singer in Spain. On the other hand, board game fans will have their own space: Joc&Role. With demonstration tables, presentations of the latest releases in the world of board games, immersive role-playing games, official game tournaments like La Fallera Skull and a toy library with more than one hundred games available to visitors. S.M.
