26 SALON DEL COMIC

Guests

FICOMIC invites the spanish winning authors of the last year's edition contest: Max, Miguelanxo Prado and David Rubín. And the nominees to the different categories: Carlös (Carlos Areces), Clara Tanit, Pere Pérez, Lola Lorente, Jorge Parras, Paco Roca, Alberto Vázquez, Miguel Brieva, Raule, Roger Ibáñez, Miguel Gallardo, Santiago Valenzuela, Quim Bou, Carlos Vermut.

Andy Diggle (London, Great Britain - 1971)

Catel Muller (Strabourg, France - 1964)

Denis Kitchen (EE.UU., August 27th, 1946)

Frederick Peeters (Geneva, Switzerland - 1974)

Swiss of Dutch origin, alternates his work as illustrator in publicity and in press with his dedication to the story. Since the beginning of 1997 he became one of the most important figure in the European comic. In 2001 he published in France the autobiographical work Píldoras azules (Astiberri) in which he talks about the relation with his wife, a HIV-positive mother of a three years-old boy also infected with this virus. Thanks to this story, Peeters earned the Premio Töppfer of Geneva, also nominated for the awarded for Best Album of the Angoulême Festival and the nomination for the Mejor Foreign Work in the Barcelona Comic International Convention. Other works perfectly join the genre story with the psychological survey, arousing a big interest in the public and review, and the most important are Koma (Dibbuks), RG and Lupus (Astiberri), which presentation meant the Prize for the “essential” album the International Angolême Comic Convention 2007. This author is invited for the Convention in collaboration with Astiberri.

Jean-Louis Tripp (Montauban, France - 1958)

Jock (East Kilbride, Scotland – 1972)

Mark Simpson, known as "Jock", starts to work as cartoonist in 1999 in the British magazines 2000 AD and Judge Dredd, where with Andy Diggle creates the character "Lenny Zero". Through this time of his career, thanks to his work, he earns the Best Debutante National Comic Prize given in Scotland in 2001, also making possible to be hired to work in Norteamérica as well as his colleague Andy Diggle. Both work for Vertigo, the DC Comics adult publisher, the series The Losers, work nominated to the Premios Eisner in 2003 and probably it will be made a film of it. About Eisner Prizes, Jock received a new nomination in 2006 for the best cover-maker category. He also participated in the direction in the film Batman: Begins and he directed various projects for MTV, British Airways, PlayStation, Nintendo, BBC, NBA and GT Interactiv. His latest works for comic are Faker and Green Arrow: Year One.

José-Louis Bocquet (Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France - 1962)

Liniers (Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1973)

Melinda Gebbie (San Francisco, USA - 1947)

Her link to comic starts in 1973, after meet the author Lee Marrs, and starts in the retrospective masthead Wimmen's Comix where Marrs worked at the time. The mentioned retrospective magazine underground feel paid special attention to feminist, political, sexual and autobiographical subjects and through her extensive existence, included many Gebbie's works. After little contributions in various anthologies with so evident titles as Tits&Clits, Wet Satin or Anarchy, Melinda Gebbie publishes her first complete comic in 1977. The referred work, entitled Fresca Zizis, would be judged as obscene in Great Britain and her possession would be forbidden in the country from then on, being requested and burnt all the existent copies of the English edition. Her last contribution to the story was the graphic novel Lost Girls, done with her husband Alan Moore, with who also created the Cobweb character for the series Tomorrow Stories. This author is invited for the Convention with the collaboration of Norma Editorial.

Michael Golden (USA - 1955)

He started his career in Noveno Arte about 1976. After work a while in many series of the DC Comics, some of them with some link to the Batman character, he immediately started to work for Marvel Comics in the series Los Micronautas. Later he spaced out his contributions for the story to devote his time mainly to publicity, though he was doing covers and other works. However, in 1986 he returned to this environment of the continuous series The 'Nam that presented him with an enormous regard, therefore it was the first comic-book that aroused the conflict between United States of America and Vietnam in truthful terms. Other Michael Golden's important works are Los Vengadores (1981), Marvel Fanfare (1982), Bucky O'Hare (1984 - 1985), Dr. Extraño and Spartan X (1998). Golden is not only author, but he was also art director in Marvel Comics and he did some editor's works.

Milo Manara (Bolzano, Italia - 1945)

His interest for comics started around his 20 years old, thanks to the avant-garde movement existent in works as Barbarella and Jodelle. In a first moment, early seventies, his production mixes many pocket erotic stories with works left-winger militancy. Later, he does projects artistically more ambitious with different scriptwriters, in 1978 Manara starts his career as a complete author with HP and Giusseppe Bergman, the first step to an ascending progression where the adventure and - again - the eroticism play an important role. In this period - that extends till today - are included the other episodes of Las aventuras de Giusseppe Bergman, the various works of El Clic and El Perfume del invisible and stories as Gulliveriana and Kamasutra. With his production as a complete author, Manara collaborated with so many important authors as Hugo Pratt (Verano indio, El gaucho), Federico Fellini (Viaje a Tulum) and Alejandro Jodorowsky (Los Borgia). This author is invited for the Convention in collaboration with the Cultural Italian Institute.

Moebius (Paris, France – 1938)

Jean Giraud, Moebius' real name, made his first steps as comic strips' drawer in the dryness of western. Jijé, that was his master, gave him in 1963 the first assignment stood out his career: Blueberry. After that, in the middle of the 60's, Jean Giraud was feeling, in a more and more intensive way, the necessity of reinventing himself as Moebius. So, while Giraud was following drawing the hardness of the Far West with a graphic mark contrast of lights and shadows, Moebius went inside the unfathomable depths of fantasy, imprisoned in a obsessive devotion for a variety of techniques permitted by manual compositions. It was Moebius that found in the 70's Les Humanoïdes Associés with other distinguished companions. It was Moebius that raise from the nothing proposals like El garaje hermético, Arzach or Venecia celeste. He allied to Alejandro Jodorowsky to illuminate El Incal, one of the principal referents of contemporary science fiction and, nowadays, he is one of the giants of graphic creation in the world.

Paul Naschy (Madrid – 1934)

In the early seventies the weightlifting champion Jacinto Molina was requested by his well-built condition to participate as an extra in some Hollywood super-productions shoot in Spain. He was a classic terror films admirer and in the beginning of his career he was an actor, scriptwriter, producer and cinema director; and under the artistic name Paul Naschy since1968. Throughout time, Naschy participated in more than 100 films, which gave him international fame and important awards till he became one of the most important figure in the Spanish cinema. His well-known creative work La Saga de Walpurgis was recently transferred to the story Waldemar Daninsky (El retorno del hombre lobo), a graphic novel directed with Javier Trujillo, which gave them the Best Spanish Work Award in Expocómic07. This author is invited for the Convention in collaboration with Aleta Ediciones.

Peter Bagge (New York, USA - 1957)

Peter Bagge is one of the most important authors of the independent cartoon nowadays in his underground side. Bagge, after a short period of time, in the seventies in the School Visual Arts of New York, during the eighties he practises editor in the veteran magazine Weirdo of Robert Crumb and he works in many series that gave birth his most famous character up to now: Buddy Bradley. Buddy's adventures in Seattle in the nineties satirize the grunge culture and it was a caricature portrait of the poor expectations of the young middle class. These adventures are gathered together in the masthead Odio, the Best Foreign Work Award published in Spain, given in the International Barcelona Comic Convention in 1996. Other important titles in Peter Bagge's career are Buddy y los Bradley, Mundo Idiota, Studs Kirby, Junior y otros perdedores and Sudando Tinta, all of them published in Spain. Peter Bagge is invited to the Convention in collaboration with Ediciones La Cúpula, the editor in Spain of the previously referred works.

Quino (Guaymallén, Argentina - 1932)

Ray Harryhausen (California, USA - 1920)

The writer of science fiction Ray Harryhausen and the special effects creator of the first version of King Kong, Willis O’Brien, were important figures in the Ray Harryhausen’s career. With the first one, he shared his devotion for the fantastic literature, while the second one encouraged him to enter in the cinema world. The Harryhausen’s first works were shown in the second half of the fourties, but not until 1953, with El monstruo de tiempos remotos, where he is the only one who was the author of the animation effects of the film. During this decade and the next one, he produced famous works as: La Tierra contra los platillos voladores (1956), Simbad y la princesa (1958), Los viajes de Gulliver (1960), Jason y los Argonautas (1963), Hace un millón de años (1966) and El valle Gwangi (1969). Since the seventies his works became more sporadic, working as scriptwriter and acting in small roles as actor.

Roman Dirge (San Diego, EE.UU – 1972)

Born in 1972 in United States of America, he is a cartoonist, writer, conjuror and the creator of the Lenore’s comic series. During the time he was in the institute, he joined the band “Of Worlds Long Dead”. He was considered by his art teachers as incapable of dedicate himself to art by his raw style, which encouraged him to leave his first passion to dedicate himself to magic. Some years later, his passion for art took him to create Lenore, the dead charming girl, for the magazine Xenophobe. The comic strips attract Dan Vado’s attention, the Slave Labor Graphics president, who helped him to become famous. He is also the author of the books Something At The Window Is Scratching, The Monsters In My Tummy, The Cat With A Really Big Head: And One Other Story That Isn’t As Good and he directed some works for The Haunted Mansion Comics. Dirge also worked in some episodes of Invader Zim, the cartoons series of his friend and colleague Jhonen Vasquez. Author invited by Norma Editorial.

Terry Moore (Texas, USA - 1954)

Recently, it was said that Terry Moore was the author of a unique work, as he started in the comic world in 1993 with his series Strangers in Paradise and, since then, he worked more than 14 years almost exclusively in it. After he tried to enter in the comic strip industry in many moments, always unsuccessfully, the context of little editorials that flourished in the early nineties in United States of America encouraged him to present a miniseries project that was accepted by Antartic Press. The Strangers in Paradise miniseries encouraged him to create his own editorial mark, Abstract Studio, Inc., from which he produced the rest of the miniseries with the exception of a short period of time in Homage Comis. Nowadays, thanks to the already finished Strangers in Paradise, while he expects that this series will be adapted to other media, Terry Moore was hired exclusively for Marvel Comics to develop the series Spider-Man Loves Mary-Jane and Runaways while he prepares his own new work entitled Echo. The author is invited for the Convention with collaboration with Norma Editorial.

Tim Sale (New York, USA - 1959)

After studied in the Visual Arts School of New York and in the Drawing Studio of John Buscema, Tim Sale started to work since 1983. Through the time, many contacts in comic conventions allowed him to work with Matt Wagner in Grendel: La hija del Diablo and with James Robinson in Legends of the Dark Knight: Blades. Although, for almost two decades, he and Jeph Loeb form one of the most known creative team of the comic world, responsible for famous works as El Largo Halloween and Dark Victory (both starred Batman), Superman: para todas las estaciones, Daredevil: Yellow, Spiderman: Blue and Hulk: Gray. His graphical comic completes itself with titles as Billi 99, Deathblow or his recent project, Superman: Confidencial, directed with Darwyn Cooke. Nevertheless, if something takes him off from his artistic career, is due to his contribution to the successful television series Héroes, in which he produces all the paintings shown in it.

Tony Harris (Charleston, South Caroline, USA - 1969)

This personal cartoonist started to be noticed in the American comic world in the series Starman, a monthly publication done by him and James Robinson, which gave them the Eisner Prize in 1997. After a short period of time in the Gaijin Studios in the early nineties, his new and important creative space changed to Jolly Roger Studio, where he produced graphically eye-catching works such as Doctor Extraño, Obergeist and JSA: The Liberty Files and he also collaborates in the elaboration of so singular projects as Lazarus 5. After many punctual collaborations in so long-lived creations as Iron Man and Batman Legends of Dark Knight started with the successful scriptwriter Brian K. Vaughan a new monthly series, Ex Machina, that presented him with another Eisner Prize. In this last series we can see how Harris's graphics has refined as time goes by and the growing importance that the photography has in him.

Vittorio Giardino (Bologna, Italia - 1946)

In 1979 he switches his profession as electronic engineer to dedicate himself to comic. Three years later, his works started to be translated into many idioms and he earned many international awards. In 1991 he starts to collaborate with the editor Casterman with the album Vacaciones Fatales. In 1994 is born the first volume of the adventures of Jonas Fink, awarded of the Alph’art “Mejor Album Extranjero” in the Angoulême Festival in january 1995. Since then he did various works and winning many awards, in which ¡No pasarán! Is one of the most awarded and famous for the international review.

Yslaire (Brussels, Belgium - 1957)