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Barcelona International Comic Fair
Barcelona International Comic Fair is an annual fair and convention of authors, publishers and comic readers, managed by . It takes place in the city of Barcelona 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 the Barcelona International Comics Convention), 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 the ''Best Comics Magazine''. Grand Prize of the Barcelona International Comic Fair *1988 - Alfons Figueras *1989 - Ambrós *1990 - Manuel Vázquez Gallego, Manuel Vázquez *1991 - Jordi Bernet *1992 - Joan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern 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 and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Ventura
Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk (Dutch), Henri (French), and Henrique (Portuguese). Common nicknames of Enrique are Kiki, Kiko, Kike, Rick, Ricky, and Quique. Enrique is also a surname. A variant surname is '' Enriquez'' (son of Enrique). Notable people with the name include: Given name * Enrique of Malacca (fl. 1511–1521), Malay slave who may have been the first person to travel around the world * Enrique Aguirre (born 1979), Argentine athlete * Enrique Álvarez Félix (1934–1996), Mexican actor * Enrique Bolaños (1928–2021), President of Nicaragua from 2002 to 2007 * Enrique Bunbury (born 1967), Spanish singer and band member of Heroes Del Silencio * Enrique Campos (born 1961), Venezuelan road bicycle racer * Enrique Castillo (born 1949), American actor * Enri ... [...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 Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasqual Ferry
Pasqual Ferry (sometimes credited as Paschalis, Pascual or Pascal Ferry) is a Spanish comic book artist and penciller. Biography Ferry is known in the United States' comic industry for his work on ''Heroes for Hire'' (1997), ''Action Comics'' (2000) and ''Adam Strange'' (2004). Other titles he has worked on include ''Plasmer'' (1993), ''Marvel 2099, 2099: World of Tomorrow'' (1996) and ''Warlock (New Mutants), Warlock'' (1999). In 2005, he and writer Grant Morrison began work on the ''Seven Soldiers of Victory'' Limited series (comics), limited series ''Shilo Norman, Mister Miracle'', which introduced a new version of the character. However, for reasons that have not been made known, he was only able to do the first issue. In mid-2006, Ferry became the new artist on Marvel Comics, Marvel's ''Ultimate Fantastic Four'' with writer Mike Carey (British writer), Mike Carey. In 2010 Ferry became the regular artist on Marvel Comics, Marvel's ''Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor'' teamed with ... [...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 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, footballer *Víctor García Marín, footballer *Víctor Genes, footballer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Giménez (comics)
Carlos Giménez (born 16 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 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio Altuna
Horacio Altuna (born November 24, 1941) is an Argentine comics artist. Biography Altuna was born in 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'', 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)'' In 1982, Altuna moved to Sitges in Spain, drawing stories for ... [...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 ... [...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 clear line style (indebted to the Valencian tradition) tells humorous, angry, and sad, surrealistic stories.Spanish Fever: - Page 169 1606999443 Santiago Garcia - 2016 Max was born in Barcelona in 1956. An illustrator for the press, literature and philosophy books, and a prolific and celebrated cartoonist, Max has won the Premio Nacional del Cómic (2007, for Bardín el Superrealista ardín the Superrealist, ... 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
