28th Barcelona International Comic Salon

28th Barcelona Intenational Comic Salon
(28º Salon Internacional del Comic de Barcelona)
Thursday, May 6, 2010- Sunday, May 9, 2010
opening hours: . thusday May 6,2010 & Sunday, May 9, 2010 : 10:00-20:00
Friday, May 7, 2010 & Satueday, May 8, 2010 : 10:00-21:00
entrance fee : €6'00
place : palacio 8 de FIRA DE BARCELONA(19'000m2)
Metro : ESPANYA (L-1, L-2)

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"authors "

Andy Diggle (London, Great Britain, 1971) Andy Diggle is a comic book writer long haul, born in London in 1971. Former editor of the legendary British science fiction comic 2000AD, Andy now has to his credit more than twenty graphic novels, among which include The Losers (The Loosers), Hellblazer, Batman, Judge Dredd, Swamp Thing, Dark Reign: Hawkeye, Thunderbolts, Adam Strange, Green Arrow: Year One and Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper. Currently Andy Diggle is working on Daredevil for Marvel Comics and an original graphic novel for Vertigo Crime with his friend Jock, a property of the authors thriller called Snapshot. Born in London, Diggle now lives in Lancaster (England), with his wife, two children and an addiction to video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The big screen adaptation of The Losers (The Loosers) stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana and its world premiere is scheduled for April 2010. The story is about American soldiers stranded on a mission in Afghanistan. The official website is www.andydiggle.com Diggle. Andy Diggle 28 assists the International Comic de Barcelona in collaboration with Metro DeAgostini.

Vivès Bastien (Paris, France, 1984). Bastien Vives is a vocational narrator who has always loved telling stories. It was during his formative years in school design and graphic arts ESAG Penninghen in Paris when it would prefer the comics as his medium ideal. And get it early, because at 22 years and published his first album artwork. However, the leap to the publishing market comes to start a fruitful collaboration with the publisher Casterman, stamp which publishes books like the taste of chlorine (Diabolo Editions, 2009), award-winning work at the Angouleme festival as one of the albums disclosure of their year. In this comic is already a theme that is constant in the work of Vives, specializes in providing full views of originality to the classic "boy-girl encounter." In this case, Vivès explaining the relationship of friendship between a young man swimming practice to have any improvement in their condition and a perfect body swimmer. By the same author, most recently Casterman published works such as In My Eyes (Diabolo Editions, 2010) or étroit Amitie, also starred by those friendships between boys and girls to catch fleeting moments of everyday life. During this year, will continue to publish more editions Diabolo works of Bastien Vives, an author full of interest has also achieved great success in France with the Empire, a Roman peplum of bullets made in collaboration with Merwan Chabane and consisting of several deliveries. In Spain, has just published the first part, the honor, album on the French market has been published by Dargaud seal which has been received enthusiastically by readers and critics.

Charles Berberian (Baghdad, Iraq, 1959) Of Iraqi origin and after spending several years in Lebanon, Charles Berberian stops in Paris where he studied Fine Arts. His first steps into the world of comics gives them in fanzines. In 1983 he met Phillipe Dupuy, with which since then is one of the more established artistic couples Franco-Belgian market. His best-known creation is undoubtedly M. Khan, a character who is already a contemporary classic. Together they have also signed such prestigious works as Diary of an album, often quoted in the lists of the best comics in recent years. Thanks to the quality of their work, in 2008 she received along with the Grand Prix Dupuy la Ville d'Angoulême. Bang Ediciones just published his graphic novel Sacha.

Gail Simone (Oregon, USA, 1974) The writer Gail Simone is well known for years by fans of the comic-book superhero thanks to his stories for characters such as Wonder Woman for DC, but its beginnings in the comic world are especially curious. The author participated in a collective web that outlined the discrimination (or abuse, whether it was the case) who were the superheroes or women in comics. Later, he began making a name in the comic industry through a weekly humor column also appeared on Internet pages, You'll all be sorry! His sarcasm made it the ideal writer to narrate some of the stories published by The Simpsons Bongo Comics. That job opened doors finely Marvel, where he and Slaughter series stories before moving to DC. In the editorial of Batman's most acclaimed collaboration, along with their script for Wonder Woman, occurs in birds of prey, but also participates in projects for other labels, such as Comic Book Tattoo, Image Comics, graphic novel inspired collective Tori Amos lyrics.

Gene Ha (Chicago, USA. 1969) Gene Ha is an artist known for his work in superhero comics. Drawing series started as Cyclops and Phoenix for Marvel and DC Comics Starman. But the author is more known for his collaboration with writer Alan Moore Top 10 in the series and its prequel The Forty-Niners (both works were awarded separate awards Eisner.) In 2008 he won his third Eisner by the number 11 of the Justice League of America series written by Brad Meltzer. He recently made the covers for Blackest Night: JSA and the miniseries Batman: The Widening Gyre written by Kevin Smith. Currently working with writer Bill Willingham Backroads series for IDW, a graphic novel of modern fantasy. Gene has lived in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife Lisa and their two dogs. For more information, visit www.geneha.com. Gene has come to 28 International Comic de Barcelona in collaboration with Norma Editorial.

Gilbert Shelton (Houston, USA. 1940) This author is one of the icons of underground comics. Born in Houston (Texas) in 1940, Gilbert Shelton's talent began to emerge early, with the first appearance in 1959 of Superserdo (Wonder Warthog) in a university magazine. His devastating parody of the figure of the superhero eventually become a classic that still reprinted today, exceeded only by The Fabulous Freak Brothers (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), first published in 1969 and consolidated as one of the bulwarks of American underground. The everyday adventures of three brothers hippies who live outside the social conventions and spend the holiday, showed an alternative way of understanding life. The personalities of the three brothers are different: Freewheelin 'Franklin is the crafty, Phineas T. Freakers is politically engaged and Fat Freddy Freekowtski is obese and clumsy. Just the cat of this character would end live their own adventures. Through the years, Shelton has continued to create comics where the corrosive sense of humor and action go hand in hand supersonic. Today, based in Paris and in close collaboration with Pic, Shelton continues to work tirelessly in Not Quite Dead, a series of short stories about a stale rock band that has been in comics for various publications around the world and that Barcelona present its take number 14. Shelton Hall participates in collaboration with Ediciones La Dome.

Trouillard Guillaume (France, 1980) Trouillard is the illustrator of the comic arrows station (Ediciones Sins Entity) from a screenplay by Samuel stent. The plot runs along paths linked to the Far West delirious with pages where the comic book in history becomes enlightened. This work was among the nominees for last year's Angouleme International Comics Festival. It was also the International Prize winning graphic novel "Sins FNAC ense 2009. Trouillard is a young man setting on the new French comic, which also develops facets of screenwriter and colorful. This invitation comes to Comic in collaboration with FNAC.

Ivan Reis (São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil - 1976) This artist of comics-books began his career in the U.S. market in the 90s with titles such as Ghost and The Mask for the publisher Dark Horse. Among his early works also include work on series like The Invisibles, written by Grant Morrison for editorial Vertigo, or Lady Death to Chaos Comics. On the other hand, conducted for The Avengers and Marvel Vision with Geoff Johns, among other titles. In 2004, became an exclusive artist for DC Comics and is a common signature of the series Action Comics, where he dazzles with a dynamic work and nuanced. In this editorial is involved in such successful series like Infinite Crisis and Rann & Thanagar War, until in 2006 signed a legendary Green Laterna script by Geoff Johns himself. Reis left the project to take on the artistic side of the darkest night, one of the great events of the DC Universe. He now works in Brightest Day, also from DC.

Jean Giraud - Moebius (Paris, France - 1938) Jean Giraud Moebius real name, took its first steps as a cartoonist in the arid western. Jijé, who was his master, gave him his first commission in 1963 Career Highlights: Blueberry. After that, as we passed the sixties, Jean Giraud was feeling, with increasing intensity, the need to reinvent himself as Moebius. Thus, while Giraud was portraying the harshness of Far West with a graphic of sharp contrast of light and shadow, Moebius adentraría in the unfathomable depths of the great prisoner of an obsessive devotion to the game of nuance that allowed manual plots. It was Moebius who founded in the seventies Les Associés Humanoïdes along with other distinguished colleagues. Moebius was who built from scratch as the garage sealed proposals, or Venice Arzach celestial who teamed up with Alejandro Jodorowsky to illuminate the Incal, one of the leading names in contemporary science fiction, who, today, has become one of the giants of graphic design worldwide. Currently the artist is publishing volumes of Inside Moebius, a kind of diary autobiographical vignettes in which he explains his work and his creative obsessions, and explore again the limits of language comics.

Jean-Pierre Verney Author of numerous articles and a dozen books on the First World War. Commissioner since 1984 is of major national exhibitions organized by the French Ministry of War Veterans. Tardi Collaborating since mid-1970, is an adviser on several films as Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan, A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Les Fragments d'Antonin de Gabriel Le Bomin. Currently, from the collections brought together for 40 years, participated in the creation of a museum of international scope devoted exclusively to the Great War, situated in Meaux (France), population from which began the first battle of the Marne 1914, and whose inauguration will take place in November 2011. Verney has worked with late in the war of trenches and war whore!

Jeff Smith (McKees Rocks, United States. 1960) Born in 1960 in McKees Rocks (Pa.), was raised in the Midwestern United States. Learned how to make reading comics comic strip, comics and watching cartoons on television. One of the influences is recognized by the author Charles M. Peanuts Schultz. For four years drew strips for the student newspaper at Ohio State University. In 1986, he founded with Jim Kammerud Character animation studio Builders. In 1991 he began to publish Bone for what he created his own company, Cartoon Books. This is a best-selling comic book fantasy adventure that begins humorously to evolve into a story of an epic set. The series ended in 2004 after publishing 55 issues which were subsequently reprinted in various formats. In 2003 he published Shazam! The monstrous Society of Evil for DC Comics. In addition, Smith spends much of his time to promote the graphic novel and comic. Jeff Smith's Blog is http://www.boneville.com. 28 The author attends the International Comic de Barcelona in collaboration with SD Astiberri and Distributions.

Jock (East Kilbridge, Scotland, 1972) Jock is the pseudonym of award-winning British artist Mark Simpson (East Kilbride, Scotland, 1972), known for his work with writer Andy Diggle for Vertigo in losers (The Loosers) and Green Arrow: Year One for DC Comics. Is not-it-Cool-News has said of him: "Jock is a true visionary of the current comics. Une history and drawing as a whole." Jock has also worked in the art and production design in films such as Batman Begins or Hancock and in future adaptations of Dune, Battleship and Judge Dredd. He has also done covers for DC Comics series as Batman, Nightwing, Catwoman and Azrael and Marvel Comics series as Thunderbolts and Dark X-Men. Its current work includes a stage in the series Detective Comics with writer Greg Rucka starring the new Batwoman, the graphic novel Hellblazer: Pandemonium with writer Jamie Delano and the covers of the popular Vertigo line scalped. The big screen adaptation of the Losers (The Loosers) stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana and its world premiere is scheduled for April 2010. The official website of author www.4twenty.co.uk. Jock goes to 28 International Comic de Barcelona in collaboration with Metro DeAgostini.

Lewis Trondheim (Fontainebleau, France. 1964) Chabosy pseudonym Laurent, born in 1964 in Fontainebleau (France). In 1988 she released her first fanzine, H3319 ACCI and in 1990 founded with Menu and other artists the group L'Association, for the publication and promotion of young values, which becomes a key reference independent European comics. In 1992 appears the first album of rabbit Lapinot entitled Lapinot and carrots in Patagonia, the next Slaloms, will be worth in 1994 the prize for best author Alph'Art revelation of the Festival of Angoulême and a contract with Dargaud for albums color of the character. That same year he brings the wordless adventures of The Fly, which was later adapted to cartoons. In 1998, along with Joann Sfar, brings forth what will be his most famous creation, The Dungeon, a parody of the worlds of RPGs with animal protagonists. This series has had the occasional collaboration of guest artists. His next series, alone or in collaboration, including the three roads with Sergio Garcia, The Little Santa Claus: They have stolen the mail! Thierry Robin, Les Manu cosmonauts Larcenet du futur, Venezia, King Catastrophe Fabrice Palme, Tell me a story with José Parrondo, Kaput & Zösky, Genesis apocalyptic or prisoner syndrome. He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 and a year later won the Grand Prize of Angouleme. The official website of the author is www.lewistrondheim.com. Lewis Trondheim is the International Comic 28 in Barcelona in collaboration with Astiberri, Norma Editorial and Sins entity.

Chabane Merwan With the success of the publication by the publisher Dargaud of the first volume of the odyssey Roman Empire By entitled The honor (published in Spain by Ediciones Diabolo) and made four hands with Bastien Vives, Chabane Merwan has become one of the new stars of Franco-Belgian comics. However, their creative beginnings are linked to video games and scripts for animated series. In 2002 his work and get attention for the welcome with which he receives his final film studies, Biotope-winning animated short. This film will be followed by other audiovisual projects, among which a new short film, Clichés de soirée. In the world of comics is disclosed by Fausse Garde, published by Vents d'Ouest and is a thorough reworking of his first comic, Pankat. The adventure genre that fills the pages of For the Empire Peplum is alien either because last year the publisher released the first book 12a in the series L'Or et le sang, signed jointly with Bedouel, Defrance, and Nury. Besides these works, has also done ad campaigns for brands such as Orange.

Oscar Jaenada (Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona - 1975) Goya Award Winner for Best Actor for shrimp, the biography of the legendary flamenco singer, Oscar Jaenada is one of the more established performers of Spanish cinema and a promising international career ahead. What comic book fans might see on the big screen adaptation was made of Lysistrata, one of the most acclaimed Ralf König. And soon will enjoy their participation in the distribution of the film's losers, based on the eponymous comic Vertigo line of DC Comics. In his career he has played numerous roles in theater and has acted in television series as popular as seven lives, the curator and Central Hospital. Today is planning to play the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno Cantinflas in a film directed Alejandro Gomez Monteverde (Bella).

Tanino Liberatore (Quadri, Italy. 1953) Italian author born in Quadri en1953 City, studied at the School of Fine Arts in Pescara and Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome. Between 1974 and 1978 he worked as a freelance for various ad agencies, until she met Stefano Tamburini and began to publish his first comic in the magazine Cannibale. Both authors created in 1978 RanXerox character for this publication, which two years later became the magazine Frigidaire. This is a Frankenstein-looking punk as defined by Richard Corben, who lives all types of violent adventures with the young Lubna. Throughout this decade, he created comic festival posters and album covers, among which stands out the one made for Frank Zappa, The Man from Utopia. He regularly plays with Alain Chabat, with whom he produced the third volume in the series RanXerox in 1997. Chabat also collaborated with the film Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, so she won a Cesar in 2003 for Best Costume Design. He currently resides in France. Liberatore is the Hall in collaboration with Ediciones The Dome presenting his complete works RanXerox. The official website is www.taninoliberatore.com Tanino Liberatore

Tardi (Valence, France,. 1946) Son of a career military man, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lyon and then in the Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1970 he began his career as a cartoonist drawing some short stories, written by Jean Giraud (A cheval en hiver) and Serge De Beketch (The Torpedo rouge sang). In 1972 made the graphical portion of Rumeur sur le Rouergue, with Pierre Christin script. In 1976 he created one of his most remembered, Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose adventures devote nine albums. The series is a tribute to the serials of adventure, set in Paris before the First World War and starring a feminist heroine. The comic has been brought to the big screen by Luc Besson. Adaptations to highlight his comic detective novels of Léo Malet, whose atypical protagonist detective Nestor Burma (Can you smell a dead or what?). Also noteworthy is the people's cry, a series that consists of four volumes devoted to the Paris Commune. In the present Puta War Room! Focused on denouncing the horrors of World War I, one of the recurring themes of the work of Tardi. This author is invited by the Convention in collaboration with Norma Editorial

"exposition"

The Comic presents an exhibition of film
Comic fans never had as much chance now to enjoy your comic book heroes on the big screen. The fact is that the world of comics, with characters and a series of different genres, have enriched the charts with a great deal of entertainment and originality. The Comic echoes the increasingly close relationship between cinema and comics Comics to exposure in theaters. The exhibit displays original three comics that has been made into movies. In short their films will premiere on Spanish screens: Jonah Hex, The Losers and Iron Man 2. In the case of Jonah Hex, the originals of the legendary gunfighter West are signed by one of the greatest Spanish composers of international success, Jordi Bernet. Another internationally recognized artist whose work can be seen on the show is Salvador Larroca, who signed the beautiful designs of Invincible Iron Man series, the winner and Eisner Award and has just been nominated for another Eisner as cover artist. Following the success of the first film, Iron Man 2 opens on 30 April. And finally, visitors to the fair may enjoy the work of Andy Diggle and Jock for losers, which chronicles the adventures of a special forces unit of the United States dedicated to clean the dirt from the government. In short, the seventh and the ninth art come together in the Barcelona Comic Fair.

The rhythms of comics
The relationship of comics to music is intense. The exhibition aims to show different aspects of this connection. On the one hand, show pages of characters and classic comic series where the music comes in a bullet or embodied in a minor character. Pages also show real singers biographical comics and cartoons of fiction where the music is the protagonist. A fourth section of the exhibition will be devoted to vinyl covers drawn by cartoonists or references to characters emerged from the bullet. The curator of the exhibition is the music critic Miquel Jurado. Furthermore, within the space devoted to this exhibition there will be a scene where artists and musicians performed live performances.

By Vázquez
Exhibition dedicated to Manuel Vazquez, one of the most brilliant authors and school personnel of humor Bruguera, who left us now fifteen years ago. The exhibition will review their most celebrated creations, like Gilda's sisters, Chive family, Granny Peace, Anacleto o The inspector Yes, without forgetting its commitment as a comic strip author of the newspaper The Observer, his autobiographical comics or sarcastically its most subversive. The exhibition will also have a section dedicated to the film The Great Vazquez per Oscaraibar directed and starring Santiago Segura on the role of the artist.

Prince Valiant
Harold Foster was the author of one of the great classics of American comics. Prince Valiant appeared on February 13, 1937 in various color supplement to the U.S. daily. Brave is the son of exiled King of Thule and since Young is directed toward Camelot, King Arthur's castle, where to go as squire. His courage, cunning and humanity in a short time they are admitted as one of the knights of the Round Table. Over the years we may see the character mature, marry and have offspring. Foster pages are drawn by a comic masterpiece. The exhibition will showcase some of the original pages in the series.

Joso goes to Hollywood
In the past 10 years, a new generation of national authors has occupied a fixed and well known within the comics industry. Many of these authors come from Joso school classrooms, either both as students and teachers. Names enshrined in the firmament of comic-book, and Pasqual Ferry, JR Santacruz and Diego Olmos, who have been in charge of such emblematic characters as Spiderman, Batman and Superman, have participated in the formation of new values such as Pere Perez, Francis Portela, Palo Jephthah, Hugo Petrus, Pepe Larraz or Salva Espin, who have already won popular recognition. It is for this reason that the School Joso produce an exhibition that recognizes the excellent work of all these professionals, who have been spearheading the new values associated with this school and have become the best example for future generations authors.

Ana Miralles
A retrospective exhibition that travels through the comics and illustrations of the internationally recognized author and won the Grand Prix of the Salon of 2009. Born in 1959 in Madrid, became known in 1983 through an exhibition organized for junior artists on Radio 3, which allows professional debut in the magazine Rambla. The following provides several short stories for other headers as Madriz, Trock Bak, Acme and Cairo. In 1990 appears the first album, The brightness of an eye, written by Emilio Ruiz, published by The General color and reissued the following year by Casset. 1991 also witnesses the Miralles break into the international market with the adventures of Eva Medusa. In 1996 he published a first album collecting his work, Dossier AM, edited by Midons, and the following year launched a new series of three albums for Glénat, In Search of the Unicorn, based on the novel by award-winning Metro Juan Eslava Galan again teaming up with Emilio Ruiz to the script. In 2001, Miralles crop up another success with the French company Djinn for Dargaud, with scripts by Jean Dufaux and edited in Spain by Norma Editorial. Alongside his work in the comic, has cultivated the illustration for children's books and magazines, in addition to designs for dance costumes, storyboards, screen prints, etc..

The revolution brushes and Pere Josep Méjanes Busquet
Winning the awards for Best Picture and Author Disclosure Room of the past. The original plot of this comic is set in a fictional past, where the comic book artists organized a revolutionary movement against the oppression of the editors, all within a historical context that refers to the late eighteenth century. The plot of the authors are preparing to ink sparkling tavern, meeting place of artists. The black and white drawing of Pere Méjanes dazzles with its expressive power.

The blind snakes Felipe Hernández Cava and Bartolomé Seguí
Winning awards for Best Play and Best Screenplay of the past show.
The blind snake is background, the betrayals of the Spanish Civil War as a metaphor for the lost paradise of the revolutionaries. The characters of history are the product of his time, when the dialectic of the ideas developed at the barricades and trenches. They sold their soul for an impossible utopia and the devil never hesitates to collect debts. A comic that started in the summer of 1939 to New York to move in time and space to boil Barcelona in May 1937. This comic also won the last edition of National Comic Award from the Ministry of Culture.

Rantifuso
Rantifuso fanzine is a veteran who has managed to adapt to new technologies and even comes to advertising on sites like youtube.com and allows readers to download in PDF file. The first number is exhausted, but has a fast and fun blog: http://rantifuso.blogspot.com. In the Hall last year won the Best Spanish fanzine 2008.

PARALLEL EXHIBITION -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
Fuck War! of Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney
Showroom Refuge Badalona (Plaça de la Vila, s / n). From 5 to 30 May.

Tardi is one of Europe's most influential writers of contemporary comics. Author of several series of detective character, one of his constant themes is about the First World War. Their vision is an openly denounced the horrors of trench warfare, where soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were victims of a conflagration that respond to certain interests of imperialist character. Tardi shows the guts behind the battles, where men are put to death by a staff capable of all sorts of atrocities. His last work Puta war! texts by Jean-Pierre Verney be presented at the Barcelona Comic Fair. The exhibition hall Refuge Badalona, in collaboration with Norma Editorial FICOMIC and hosts a sample of the original fifty Tardi's comic focusing on this theme. This is the first exhibition FICOMIC in collaboration with the Municipality of Badalona, a city that will host the Museum of Comic and Illustration for Catalonia.

Editions Comic Show
Comic 28th Chamber
Comic 27th Chamber
Comic 26th Chamber
Comic 25th Chamber
Past Issues

Salón del Manga Publishing
XV Salón del Manga
XIV Salón del Manga
Salón del Manga XIII
Past Issues

News

Come to the premiere with the Kick-Ass Comic
Universal Magic mega Badalona and Barcelona Comic want to reward the first hundred people to come on Thursday May 6 the Hall with a special gift: two invitations to the premiere of Kick-Ass to take place that same Thursday at 22:00 in mega Magic Badalona. The first hundred people to submit their entry 6 euros FICOMIC Booth Hall will have two invitations to attend this special showing.

THE Comic intensified its relationship with film
The intense relationship they have comic books and movies to be displayed at the 28th International Comic Fair in Barcelona. Within the schedule of the conference are to present films that have much to do with the comic. In addition, medium-length films and documentaries screened in the first cycle vancomycin, which aims to disseminate new creative related audiovisual story.

The galactic force of 'Star Wars' lands on the Comic
To mark the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, one of the episodes most famous of the legendary Star Wars saga, fans of the films of George Lucas can enjoy the Comic numerous activities organized by the Spanish Garrison of the Legion 501, an organization dedicated to costuming officially recognized by Lucasfilm, and store Ficromic, which celebrates its fifth anniversary