Ana Penyas

Invitado de Honor

(Valencia, 1987) is an illustrator and author of comics. In 2016, she won the VII Catálogo Iberoamericano Ilustra with the series Buscando un sitio. In 2017, she received the Premio Internacional de Novela Gráfica Fnac-Salamandra Graphic, thanks to which she published her first graphic novel We're all just fine (2017, Salamandra Graphic), where she talks about her grandmothers and the generation of women who grew up in the Franco era, and for which she received the Premio de Autora Revelación Nacional at the Salón del Cómic in Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de Cómic 2018.

She has published several illustrated albums, highlighting her work around historical memory: En transición (2017, Barlin libros) and Mexique, el nombre del barco (2017, El zorro rojo). She has worked as an illustrator on various feminist projects such as Pikara Magazine, the Jo tambè vaig ser piquetera calendar, and the illustrated notebook Biosindicalismo desde los territorios domésticos (2021, La Laboratorio and Fundación Rosa Luxemburg).

In 2021, she published Todo bajo el sol (2018, Salamandra Graphic), a reflection on the transformation of the Spanish Mediterranean coast as a result of tourism, which won the Éco-Fauve RAJA Award for Sous le soleil at the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême  (2023, 50th edition) and the ACDCómic Award for the best national work 2021.

In 2022, she developed, with anthropologist Alba Herrero Garcés, En una casa.Genealogía del trabajo del hogar y los cuidados, at the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, IVAM (11/2022-04/2023). The exhibition aimed to create a dialogue between ethnography and artistic creation, expanding collective, subaltern memory based on the experiences of workers and employers.

She is currently working on a new comic book, again with Salamandra Graphic, to be published in the fall of 2025.

Other activities involving the participant:

Free time with a tourist personality
Social Context: Album and Comic as Engines of Change

María Luque

María Luque was born in Rosario and lives in Buenos Aires. Since 2005, she has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She works as an editorial illustrator and coordinates workshops. In 2011, she created the project “Merienda dibujo,” a series of meetings with artists. She is a co-founder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo. She participated in “Informe, historieta argentina del siglo XXI,” published by Editorial Municipal de Rosario.

She is the author of La mano del pintor, a graphic novel about Cándido López (Sigilo, 2016; L'Agrume Éditions 2017; Lote 42 2019), Casa transparente (Sexto Piso, Premio Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas), Espuma (Galería Editorial, 2018), Noticias de pintores (Sigilo, 2019), and Corazón geométrico (Sigilo, 2022). In 2022, she received a Konex Award, Diploma of Merit in Humor and Comic.

Other activities involving the participant:

Illustrating the Everyday and Other Mediums
Networks between spaces and authors: The importance of the existence of projects that manage and accompany authors

Eva Cabrera

Vegan Witch & Comicbook Artist, Nominated for the Will Eisner Award and GLAAD Media Awards, Eva Cabrera is co-founder of the Mexican studio BoudikaComics. She was born in Veracruz, Mexico, but most of the time she likes to travel and visit other places to cultivate her imagination.

She loves animals, books, and art. In her free time she likes to watch series, movies, and play video games.

Since she was little, she has been fascinated by telling stories through cartoons. As she grew up, she has developed her work as a professional comic book artist and something that has become very important to her is to represent women comic creators in Mexico at a national and international level.

She drew the Betty & Veronica: Vixens series from Archie Comics, Kim&Kim from Black Mask Studio [Comic with three nominations], and has worked with publishers such as Oni Press, ComiXology Originals, Andrews McMeel, etc. He has created covers for Cartoon Network's Adventure Time series for the publishing house BOOM Studios.

Elena Bazán

Professional in the Spanish-language print and digital publishing industry with extensive experience in the creation, management, and distribution of electronic and audio content. She has collaborated with various companies and publishers in Mexico, Spain, Germany, and China. Speaker and teacher on topics in the digital publishing industry. Editor and author. She creates books in all formats for all audiences. She is currently the leader of editorial production at audiolibre publishing.

audiolibre is a Mexican audio publishing company founded in 2023. With an experienced team that has developed hundreds of audiobooks and an audio-first vision, it is dedicated to the creation and management of audio catalogs, production, and distribution of audiobooks in Spanish, focused on the Mexican and North American markets.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony