FROM FRIDAY 17 ON SUNDAY 19/11
C.J. SAGUNTO PORT. Wind of Marinade, s/n (Port of Sagunto)
Turns ten years old Splash, the comic festival of the Valencian Community in the Port of Sagunto, and about forty artists come to celebrate it, among which the Swiss stands out Enrico Marini, renowned cartoonist in Europe for works such as The scorpion y The eagles of Rome. The Madrid woman will be there Carla Berrocal, in charge at Mrs. Concha: The rose and the thorn to give shape to Valencian folklore (signs the festival poster and stars in one of its exhibitions); the illustrator of Captain Alatriste Joan Mundet, o Manuel Romero, winner of the ACDComic award for Best National Work 2022 by Goya. Saturnalia. The critical component and social commitment are provided by the National Comic Award of Catalonia Alfonso Lopez; Candela Sierra reflecting the inconsistencies of the world of work in Rotunda, Carlos Portela y Sergi San Julián signing a journalistic portrait of the Prestige disaster (The check back); o Ramon Esono Ebale, aka Ham and Cheese, Equatorial Guinean artist who drew the Spanish colonial past in Equatorial Guinea in ten thousand elephants of Peter Ortín, who will come to collect the Splash Award for Best Screenplay. From home we will have I feel Llobell, Shaun Elay, Julia Cejas y Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner (The Crane Studio), who occupy the second exhibition of the festival with their comic Maria La Javelina (Astiberri). On the other hand, A documentary about the comics author Pere Joan will be screened, and the adult animation film Black is black II: Ainhoa by Fermin Muguruza. And pay attention to the talks: about the magazine The papus with one of his graphic comedians, L'Avi (Louis Recasens) and the historian Maria Iranzo, on freedom of printing with Dario Adanti, Carla Berrocal, Paco Alcazar y Manel Fontdevila, about Spanish manga with Dani Bermúdez y Fidel de Tovar y A life of vignettes con Alfonso Lopez. S.M.
