Catalina Bu

During her career he has developed an experimental and expressive style, with simple and imprecise lines that move through genres such as caricature, comics and graphic humor. Among his editorial work, his first book Diario De Un Solo (Catalonia Chile, Tusquets México, Sesi-SP Brasil, La Cafetieriè Francia), En Blanco (Catalonia Chile, Almadía México) and his most recent graphic novel Nadie Como Tú (Fulgencio) stand out Pimentel, Spain).

She has been invited to international book fairs in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Italy, and has exhibited collectively in Madrid, Bologna, Shanghai and New York. As an illustrator she has worked for organizations such as the UN, Amnesty International, World Vision and brands such as Netflix, Vans, Google, Moleskine, H&M and Sony Music. She currently dedicates herself to drawing, studying engraving at Taller 99 and spends her days with Moño, her emotional support dog.

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Comic Presentation: Nadie como tú

Daniel Divinsky

My name is Daniel Jorge Divinsky, I was born in Buenos Aires on April 1, 1942 but, due to a clerical error, I was registered two days later, which saved me (not entirely) from being an April's Fool.
I completed my primary, secondary and university studies in state and free institutions, until I graduated as a lawyer in 1962 -too young-. I was awarded the Diploma of Honor of that promotion, but I refused to receive it during one of the endemic military dictatorships of our country; I got it later, during one of the periods of democratic restoration.
Two aunts -my father's sisters, teachers- taught me to read when I was six years old, and I had to stop attending elementary school, which had just begun, because of acute nephritis. That's why I made it to first grade by reading in a row, something I haven't stopped doing until last night.
During my law school studies, I was assistant editor and then editor of a collection of small books published by the Student Center. They were texts written by professors of the career, about topics on which they usually questioned in the exams. That was my first contact with linotype, the smell of molten lead and the correction of "galley proofs". Later, when a bookseller friend of mine, Jorge Alvarez, opened his publishing house, I was one of his ad honorem collaborators for the publication of several books.
Dissatisfied with the practice of law, I enrolled in a course for sociology graduates taught in the department of sociology, inaugurated shortly before at the University of Buenos Aires. I studied several subjects with great interest, until the military coup of 1966 violently intervened the University, and the professors with whom I studied resigned or were dismissed.
Without horizons, with my partner in the law firm we then decided to open a bookstore, but the meager funds we had were not even enough to pay the entrance fee for the rent of a suitable location. At Alvarez's suggestion, we partnered with him and in 1966 Ediciones de la Flor was born, the house I directed until September 2015. Initially, we published an exquisite catalog of low-circulation books until, in 1970, Quino, the author of Mafalda, who was a friend of ours, proposed that we publish his strips of the character because he had broken off relations with his first publisher - the aforementioned Álvarez - who had stopped paying him his royalties on time.
With the appearance of Volume 6 of Mafalda in October 1970, he completely changed the perspective of the publishing house, which allowed me to leave behind my law career in 1973. The publishing house had changes in its corporate composition with the retirement of my lawyer partner and the incorporation of Kuki Miler, an economist by profession and my partner at that time. 
The financial liquidity provided by publishing the initial 200,000 copies of each volume of Mafalda allowed us to diversify the catalog and bet on multiple authors, with diverse results. At some point the books of the brilliant and audacious journalist Rodolfo Walsh, later kidnapped and murdered by the dictatorship of 1976/1983, were incorporated. We publish, both his research writings (the famous Operación Masacre) and his short story compilations.
Other notable names in the catalogue: Umberto Eco, first with a children's story and then with The Name of the Rose and other of his important titles in co-edition with Lumen of Spain. And Georges Brassens, Tennessee Williams, John Berger, in a list of almost a thousand titles.
In 1977, the implacable civil-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship that had taken over the country and tortured, killed and disappeared thousands of people, banned a children's book from the imprint and reacted to my appeal by imprisoning my wife and me for 127 days, without any form of trial or possibility of defense. When we were released, we went into exile in Venezuela, while the publishing house continued to operate, expertly and prudently managed by my partner's mother.
When I returned to the country on the eve of the restoration of democracy, the government of President Alfonsín offered me to direct a State radio station –Radio Belgrano–; together with my team, we made an effort to democratize communication.
In September 2015 I retired from the publishing house, which was left in charge of my ex-partner, and currently I do a weekly radio program on the radio station of the University of Buenos Aires and write a biweekly column for the digital publication "Leamos", obviously, about books.
We were awarded the Arnaldo Orfila Reynal Prize for publishing career, granted by the FIL Guadalajara; a distinction from the University of Buenos Aires to notable alumni; I was declared Outstanding Personality of Culture by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, and received a few more medals.
I am addicted to book fairs and attend as many as I can, even when I am retired from publishing.
 

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Trino Camacho

Caricaturista; poseedor de una larga carrera en medios electrónicos e impresos; oriundo de Guadalajara,
Jalisco. Nacido el 20 de agosto de 1961 y le va al Atlas (aunque gane). Trino es ganador del Premio Nacional de Periodismo en cartón político (2000) y del Premio Nacional de Comunicación José Pagés Llergo (2006). Así como del premio Inkpot en la Comic-Con 2022 por sus contribuciones al mundo de los cómics.
Se le puede escuchar en La Chora Interminable, junto con Jis, quién es co-creador de la serie de monos y película del 2012 El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza. Pero La Chora también se puede ver. Desde 2021, La Chora TV se transmite semanalmente en el canal 44 de la Universidad de Guadalajara y en
el canal 22 de la Secretaría de Cultura de México. Ha creado animaciones y doblajes de series de televisión y películas viejas como Viaje al fondo del mar, Batman y Robin y El llanero solitario.
Trino ha dedicado parte de su trabajo a la ilustración de textos infantiles con el Fondo de Cultura Económica, Tusquets, Sexto piso y otras editoriales. Dentro de las publicaciones destacan 11 volúmenes de la serie de El Santos además de Historias desconocidas de la Independencia y la Revolución conmemorando el bicentenario de México, así como Historias desconocidas de la conquista y el libro Historias del fin del mundo y otras patrañas, Viva la familia pero bien lejos y  El regreso del Rey Chiquito todas con la editorial Tusquets. Ha sido invitado a realizar exposiciones de sus tiras más reconocidas en los consulados de México en Atlanta, El Paso, Salt Lake City y San Diego. Junto con Jis además realizan un ejercicio en vivo de improvisación y dibujo llamado JAM de Moneros realizado totalmente en vivo.
Actualmente colabora con una tira deportiva para los periódicos de la OEM con distribución en todo el país. También publica un cartón semanal en La Gaceta de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Recibió el premio de La Catrina en el año de 2022 por parte de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara.
 

Yokai

Jessie Yokai Arias, Jalisco Mex, Visual Artist, specialist in Character Design and Graphic Novel, coming to work for platforms such as The Walt Disney Company, Cartoon Network, BANDAI, Netflix and Discovery Kids among others. He currently has a graphic novel EL CIRCULO ROJO, and a comic LAS CHICAS TAMBIEN HACEMOS RUIDO.

Odette Cárdenas Béjar

Mexican translator who has participated as editor and proofreader in various independent publications since 2005.
She is the director of the first independent publishing house in Mexico specialized in Yaoi or Boys Love, bringing her passion for the genre to its dissemination and research.

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Understand horror and overcome reality

José Diego García Fernández

Graduated in Graphic Design from the School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts, having also completed a specialty in multimedia at the same headquarters. He is a comic book enthusiast from an early age, being the object of his study and subsequent development as an illustrator, cartoonist, writer and co-founder of Editorial Chipotle, an independent publisher that develops comics with various themes and for readers of different ages. Since 2016 he has exhibited his work at Book Fairs, giving talks and workshops that encourage young people to venture into comics.

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Understand horror and overcome reality

Ricardo Sánchez, Bobadilla

Originario de Culiacán, Sinaloa, México, es Licenciado en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la UAdeO, ha incursionado en la publicidad, en la televisión, el diseño gráfico, animación, ilustración y caricatura. Por algunos años publicó cartón editorial en el semanario A discusión, en el Periódico Noroeste y el periódico La Sirena, también es fundador junto a otros caricaturistas sinaloenses de la Revista La Locha y actualmente pública para el periódico El Debate las tiras: ¿Quién entiende a la Yoyis?, Los Cochipolicías y Épale Pariente. Para el semanario Ríodoce, la tira Orondo y la tira El Ñacas y el Tacuachi, ésta última también se publica en la revista El Chamuco y los hijos del averno.

Logan Wayne

He was born on August 11 in CDMX, has a degree in Business Administration and has dedicated a good part of his life to teaching administrative and supply chain and finance topics. He is director of administration and finance at Pura Pinche Fortaleza comics and general director at Editorial Perro Muerto, in addition to consulting in various companies in various fields.
Since November 2014 he began to independently publish a serial comic called “Lazaruz” of which 10 issues of 24 pages each were published, culminating the story of the first arc in March 2017.
To hone his creativity, he has been trained in graphic narrative, drawing, perspective, sequence, literature, writing, dramaturgy, photography, style correction and theater workshops to be able to nourish his stories.
In July 2016 he presented his first 96-page graphic novel “Semana Inglesa”. At the FIL in Guadalajara in 2017 he presented his first 96-page prose novel “Pinche Destino”. In March 2018, he presented his 64-page graphic novel “La Mala Hora” at the UNAM and in October of that same year, he presented his second 180-page prose novel “Tecolutla Makes me happy” at the FILZ. In January 2019 he participated in the Lucha Libre anthology, “First Fall.” In March 2019 he presented his third 88-page graphic novel, “Monk,” at the FIL in Guadalajara. In April 2019 he wrote two stories for the 64-page anthology Niño Terror, “Vacation Never Again,” which he also edited. In November 2019 he participated in the Anthology, Niño Terror, “We Want Calaverita!” In December 2019, at the FIL in Guadalajara he presented his third prose novel: Sympathy for the Debil. In December 2021 he participated in the anthology of science fiction and gender equality comics “Ipanema”. In October 2022 he published his most recent graphic novel Las Malas Lenguas, which he presented at the FIL in Guadalajara that same year. In March 2023 he published a story for the anthology El Gallito comics 61. In October 2023 he published his anthology Retazos, Textos sickos de amor y tiempo.
He is part of the team that created the Pura Pinche Fortaleza graphic novel award, which has had four editions in which several authors have been awarded with a thousand copies of the winning work and in 2023 they are already working on the fifth edition of the contest.
He is currently working on his fourth prose novel and fifth graphic novel. He has continuously participated in comics events and book fairs such as La Mole, Conque, Pixelatl, Feria del Libro del Zócalo, FIL de Guadalajara, FILIJ, Fenal de León, FELICH de Chihuahua, Feria del libro de la Frontera, FILIJ Pachuca, Ful Pachuca, FICOMIC Puebla, CDMX Book Auction Fair, Book and Rose Fair, Mining Book Fair, etc. I have given talks, conferences, and presentations at various educational institutions in the country. In parallel, and for more than 17 years, I have been the host and producer of the podcast called “El Podcast de Logan” that can be heard on the main platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, Spreaker, Amazon Music, etc.

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Presentation of the Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award
Presentación de "El Gallito Cómics 61"

Héctor Germán Santarriaga

Héctor Santarriaga is a Mexican author of comics and graphic novels, he graduated from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Azcapotzalco campus, as a Graphic Communication designer. He has an extensive career as a writer, artist and editor of comics. He is general director at Nostromo Ediciones and co-founder of Pura Pinche Fortaleza Cómics, both independent publishing labels specialized in the production and marketing of comics and graphic novels in Mexico. In addition, he is co-creator of the Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award and, since 2016, he has been part of the National System of Art Creators, in the discipline of Graphic Narrative.
He has published the graphic novels Hermanos (2014), Coda: The Dancer, the Hippopotamus and the Wall (2015), Eternal Light (2016), Electric Crow (2017), Broken Dreams: Sofía (2018), Gila: The Black Sun ( 2018), Broken Dreams: Julia (2019), Under the Witch's Skin (2019) and Broken Dreams: Emi (2022).
He has also participated as a writer, illustrator and editor in other titles, such as: the science fiction comics anthology Nostromo (2011-2013), the compilation Ecos Secuenciales: Forjador (2019), the graphic novel A Puerta Cerrada (2003), the children's comic Looking at the Monster in the Eyes (2015), as well as Niño terror (2019) and iPanema: In my days and in yours (2021) and the anthology Gallito Cómics 61 (2023).

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Presentation of the Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award
Presentación de "El Gallito Cómics 61"

Tebin

(Esteban S.R.) is an illustrator, photoartist, editor, comic book author and designer of Graphic Communication at the UAM. He has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, working in the art area of the Reforma newspaper. He produced, for the Metro newspaper, the weekly adult-themed comic Entregas en Caliente, (2010-2020) with 1,500 published installments. And for Genial magazine, the children's comic E-ni, of which he is co-author.

He has collaborated independently in various editorial media, advertising agencies, companies and cultural institutions. In his career he has received various recognitions: SND, Hasbro, CMLL, MECYF 94, Draw Break, Cut & Paste, among others.

His most notable works have been: Destino Macabro (2017), his first work, is an anthology with several horror stories. A Puerta Cerrada (2003), a collective creation comic, together with Héctor Santarriaga he made the graphic novel Serenata del Zombi (2019) and his graphic novel Rota (2022). He is also co-creator of the national Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award contest. He has collaborated and edited independent publications in the anthologies: Niño terror (2019-2023), iPanema: In my days and in
yours (2021) and Gallito Cómics 61 (2023).

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Presentation of the Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award
Presentación de "El Gallito Cómics 61"

Pavel Ortega

In 2015, he won the graphic narrative contest, organized by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and co-published his personal vision of The Little Prince with La Cifra publishing house. Currently, his most recent series is titled Danka, from which four volumes have been released so far.

He was also the winner of the SecuenciArte 2021 contest with the graphic novel El Chiva Mora.

He is currently making the comic strip Nina on his social networks and from which the first compilation volume 2020/2022 emerges.

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The cabinet of terror

Frik

(CDMX 1964) He studied Engraving at the ENPEG La Esmeralda, (1987) without completing it. AND

He is a founding member of the comic magazine El Gallito Cómics (1992-2000) and the monkey collective El Taller del Perro (1998-2003).

He has worked as an illustrator, cartoonist and cartoonist in various newspapers and magazines of national circulation, as well as a professor of drawing and comics at the Artistic Linkage Unit of the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center (2013-2019).

He has participated in the anthologies Sensacional de Chilangos (GDF 2000), Pulpo Cómics (Pellejo Molleja 2003) and recently in Gallito Cómicas 61 (Pura Pinche Fortaleza Cómics, March 2023)

He has published a compilation volume, Cabos Sueltos (Editorial Resistencia 2010) and a graphic novel co-authored with Ricardo Peláez, Madre Santa (Animal Grafico 2017).

Reissue of the graphic novel Madre Santa, in the Vientos del Pueblo collection of the Economic Culture Fund in November 2022.

He collaborates daily as a cartoonist and illustrator, from 2007 to date, in the newspaper La Crónica de Hoy.

La casa del autor en Zapopan

La Casa del Autor en Zapopan (CAZ) is a space specialized in promoting the creation of graphic narrative, comics, animation and video games for local and international creators through different artistic residencies and projects for the development of talents.

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Graphic Narratives in Residence: The Author's House