Comics Beyond – The Training Week.
The European initiative for the exchange and circulation of comic artists has offered a week full of activities in Amadora.
International Graphic Arts Competition “The Colors of Mental Health”.
The contest is sponsored by the Ministry of Health and organized by the Cetep Group and seeks to inspire through art the importance of taking care of our mental health and well-being.
The new cross-Barcelona and Angoulême comic scholarship for emerging talents is born.
FICOMIC, La Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême and the Institut français de España are launching a new scholarship for young comic authors to promote cultural exchange between the two countries.
The art of table games explained by an expert.
David Esbrí, publisher of Devir, explains the importance of the work done by artists in tabletop games
Cristina Laviña Ferez, an exciting career in the video game industry.
The concept artist and illustrator tells us in first person her experience during the creative process.
Ubisoft invites students from Joso’s professional courses of Concept Art and Animation for 2D and 3D Acting to its facilities.
The large video game developer and distributor invited us to visit their facilities and reviewed portfolios and work!
Open the deadline to participate in the XXXI Comic Contest ‘City of Torrelavega. Stories from here and there’.
The Councillor for Youth, Nacho Gonzalez, has reported that today opens the deadline for submission of works to participate in the XXXI Comic Contest ‘City of Torrelavega. Stories from Here and There’ aimed at non-professional cartoonists between 12 and 30 years, both individually and collectively, between writer and artist. A contest that is endowed with 2,500 euros in prizes. Works may be submitted until April 26th at 2 pm. It is, said Gonzalez, an event “consolidated” in the programming of the city that has been characterized by the “quality” of the works presented. For example, he referred to “great artists” who have passed through this contest such as, among others: Álvaro Martínez Bueno, Álvaro Iglesias, Iñigo Ansola, Álvaro Terán, Rubén Ojeda (Mudito), Silvestre Santiago Pejac, Laura Sua Campo, Roberto Raba López, José Manuel Córdoba Arias…etc… Regarding the rules, the councilman of Youth explained that the theme of the works is free, the characters must be original, self-created and unpublished; and the content of the works may not violate the dignity of people and animals. The categories of participation are divided into: CATEGORY A: young people from 12 to 17 years old. FIRST PRIZE: 400 €. SECOND PRIZE: 200 €. CATEGORY B: from 18 to 30 years old. FIRST PRIZE: 1,300 €; commissioned by the Department of Youth to design the poster for the XXXII Comic Contest ‘City of Torrelavega. Stories from here and there’. SECOND PRIZE: 600 €. In addition, the councilman of Youth has indicated, for both categories, without distinction of age, the Special Award ‘Historias de Aquí’ has been announced for the best Comic set in the city of Torrelavega (the comics must be developed in Torrelavega as physical space) whose prize will consist of a season ticket for two people to the Youth Theater cycle of the next Winter Festival. Source: https://www.radiostudio88.com/
The White Book of Comics in Spain is born
The initiative of the Sectorial del Cómic is already a reality. On January 18, the Comic Industry Association presented the White Book of Comics in Spain at the Madrid headquarters of the Ministry of Culture.
Míriam Bonastre. From a class work to a bestseller.
We chatted with the creator of the hits Hooky and Marionetta at the 29th Manga Barcelona.
Oscar Muñiz Graphic Novel Award Government of Cantabria 2023
The Department of Culture of the Government of Cantabria has opened for 30 working days the deadline for the submission of proposals for the Óscar Muñiz Graphic Arts Award, endowed with 4,500 euros.
