Laura Pérez Vernetti-Blina (

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, Laura; Barcelona, 1958) is a Spanish Catalan

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and

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. A regular contributor to the alternative comics magazine ''

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'' in its beginnings, she has worked with

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such as , Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, and especially . In 2018, Pérez Vernetti won the Grand Prize at the 36th

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Biography

After graduating in

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specializing in painting, she worked for ten years (1981–1991) for the magazine ''El Víbora''. Between 1982 and 1984, Pérez Vernetti exhibited without interruption at the Barcelona International Comic Fair. Ediciones La Cúpula published the monographs (with Joseph Marie Lo Duca, 1989) and (1990). In the following years, she participated in the collective albums (Éditions Amok, 1998), ''11 M'', (2005), and (Ariadna Editorial, 2006), all with scripts by Felipe Hernández Cava. With Hernández Cava, Pérez Vernetti also created ''Macande'' (Ikusager, 2000), about the singer Gabriel Díaz Fernández, and ''Sarà Servito'' (Edicions De Ponent, 2010). For this last work, set in 18th-century

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, Pérez Vernetti (artist, colorist, cover) received a grant for the

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from the . Also for Edicions de Ponet, she drew (2002), again with Joseph Marie Lo Duca, as well as (2005) and (2008) with Antonio Altarriba. In June 2006, she was included in the exhibition (The Best Colored Pencils in the World) in Rome, along with other prominent illustrators. In 2018, Pérez Vernetti was the winner of the Grand Prize at the 36th Barcelona International Comic Fair.

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