Isol Misenta

Isol Misenta (Buenos Aires, 1972) is a specialist in storytelling through the dialogue between images and words—she both draws and writes her stories. She studied Fine Arts and earned a degree in Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where she currently lives. She has published 27 books, which have been translated into seventeen languages.

As a complete author, she writes and illustrates her own books for both children and adults (though she prefers not to draw sharp distinctions between categories). She has also illustrated texts by Paul Auster, Jorge Luján, Graciela Montes, Julio Cortázar, and Federico García Lorca, among others.

Her book Petit, el monstruo (Petit, the Monster) inspired the animated series Petit, a coproduction between Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Spain, now spanning three seasons and recipient of multiple international awards.

Isol’s work has received wide international recognition, with numerous distinctions including awards from the Argentine Association of Children’s and Young Adult Literature (ALIJA) and the Banco del Libro de Caracas. She received the Golden Apple Award in 2003 and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, granted by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), in 2006 and 2008. In 2013, she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), one of the most prestigious honors in world literature.

Some of her books include La Costura, El Menino, Secreto de familia, Nocturno, Tener un patito es útil, Imposible, El globo, and Secreto de familia.

In addition to her work as an author and illustrator, Isol is also a singer and has taken part in various musical projects (Entre Ríos, Isol/Zypce, SIMA), recording five albums. She performs her own songs and collaborates with other artists as well.

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Rita Basulto

Rita Basulto (1973) Director of animated films, art, and photography

Winner of five Ariel Awards and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she is one of the most recognized voices in contemporary Mexican animation. Her most recent short film, Humo (Smoke), was included in the shortlist for the 96th Academy Awards and nominated for the Annie Awards for Best Animated Short.

She graduated in Visual Arts and Audiovisual Media from the University of Guadalajara, and holds a Diploma in Audiovisual Media from CAAV.

Basulto is the director of Lluvia en los ojos (Rain in the Eyes), Eclosión (Hatching), and Humo, and co-director of El octavo día (La creación) (The Eighth Day [The Creation]) and Zimbo. She has also contributed to art direction, photography, and design in short films such as Jaulas, Aeronautas, Taller de corazones, Tío, and Little Nightmares, as well as in the feature film Desierto adentro.

She participated in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio as second unit lighting designer and as part of the puppet department, and has done character design work for Mackinnon & Saunders and Warner Bros. Animation.

Rita Basulto is co-founder of OUTIK Animation and Humanimalia Studio, the latter specializing in stop-motion puppet design. Her films have been ed and awarded at numerous national and international festivals.

She is currently a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA) and is developing the animated feature film project Solos, while also serving as a mentor for the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).

Catalina Bu

Catalina Bustos Mendoza (Catalina Bu) was born in Concepción, Chile, in 1989. Her work moves between drawing, painting, and graphic storytelling, using a free, expressive, and deliberately imperfect language to explore the boundaries between intimacy and everyday life.
She is the author of Nadie como tú (Fulgencio Pimentel, Spain), En blanco (Almadía, Mexico), and Diario de un solo (Catalonia, Chile), translated into French (La Cafetière Éditions) and Portuguese (Alta Books).
Her work has been shown in cities such as Madrid, Bologna, Shanghai, Ulsan, and New York, and in institutions including the Museo Tamayo (Gran Salón México) and the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, where she presented her recent solo exhibition Tiempo en Pantalla.
As an illustrator, she has collaborated with the United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Instituto Cervantes, as well as with brands such as Netflix, Vans, Google, Moleskine, H&M, and Sony Music.
She currently lives in Madrid, where she works independently across personal, editorial, and exhibition projects.
‘In my recent work, I’m interested in portraying domestic intimacy through shifting emotional states — tiredness, curiosity, emptiness, contemplation, stress, inspiration, and boredom.
My practice extends beyond drawing into painting, ceramics, and animation, exploring how these emotions overlap and coexist without resolution. In this way, I build an emotional archive that reflects how we inhabit contemporary.

In her recent work, she is interested in portraying domestic intimacy through shifting emotional states — tiredness, curiosity, emptiness, contemplation, stress, inspiration, and boredom.
Her practice extends beyond drawing into painting, ceramics, and animation, exploring how these emotions overlap and coexist without resolution. In this way, she builds an emotional archive that reflects how we inhabit contemporary life.

Jorge Mendoza

Oink es un dúo creativo multidisciplinario creado en 2014, integrado por los ilustradores: David Nieto “Yosh” y Jorge Mendoza “Px”. Su labor se centra en los libros ilustrados, cómics y novelas gráficas, pero también en el desarrollo y ejecución de talleres para niñas y niños. También en la creación narraciones ilustradas para distintos medios, donde utilizan elementos escénicos del teatro de papel y otras técnicas.