unicómic turns 25 These conferences dedicated to emerging comics cartoon enthusiasts group celebrate a quarter of a century with three days It is dedicated to disseminating and analyzing the possibilities of this graphic and literary medium within the University of Alicante. between 23-25 MarchAbout 20 authors and experts will first pass through the Faculty of Education (the most academic section on Thursday) and the Alicante University Venue, then through the Alicante University Venue for presentations of works and meetings with authors on Friday and Saturday.
Unicómic is born from the sharing of five then-young students from Universitarios Progresistas and Club Star Trek Alicante: Daniel Simón, Pablo Durá, Javier García-Conde Maestre, Jaime Albero and Joan Miquel Rovira. “We were a small group and eventually we always started talking about comics, some more about comics and others about American comics and why not do comics in college. The first year was well received and we kept going, but I’m sure none of us thought to last 25 years”highlights Rovira, the organizer and co-founder of the workshops featured in this anniversary edition. On the 24th, a talk about Unicómic’s journey through the years A summer course on comics, publications, and an international congress will be introduced, among other events, with its new logo and 25th anniversary logo for some of its founders and conferences.
Joan Miquel Rovira currently has many authors who came with their first works or fanzines in first editions today they are consolidated writers. For example, Alicante Roman Lopez Cabrera Introduced in 2016 Secret Familya self-published study through crowdfundingand now it’s broadcasting for Panini or Cascaborra and this year Marina Armengol To present We have to fix Denmark! And Crazy Sunday (25 days, at 18 hours); anyone Carlos EsquembreA Valencian living in Alicante who applied in 2014 Body and released it last year with Planeta Comic Three wounds of Miguel Hernándezpresented in the previous edition of this meeting.
Moreover, this year poster It is the work of one of its founders, Garcia-Conde Maestrewho will present the content 24th day (5:30 pm) for bringing together some of the characters from the writers who attended the sessions – a vampire Sergio Bledaeternal user Francisco Solano Lopez or Yuna Juaco Vizueteamong others – one Homage to American cartoonist George PérezAuthor of the cover of two hundred issues of the collection, who passed away in 2022 Avengers.
The meeting starts on Thursday with a day to develop most academic part of the program: Opening and presentation of the work of the Working Groups and the Management Committee iCON-MICS European project (COST Act 19119), of which Unicómic is also a part.
The full program can be consulted on the web, where Friday’s highlights. monograph session dedicated to the relationship between cinema and comics coordinated by Fran J OrtizIt will be tried to focus on this pairing with some more original or less processed ideas such as seriesexpansion universes Blade RunnerDune anyone Star wars in the world of cinema or movie relationship a ghost story with comics Here“. Ortiz himself will remember Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini’s bond with cartoonsboth as a writer in his youth and at the end of his career, when he turned two projects he hadn’t realized in movies into comics: overalls trip And The Journey of G. Mastorna.
They present their Friday afternoon comics jewelery finished (walking titi And living with titi), carlos sampler And Vincent Cifuentes (deep into) and there will be a meeting Andres Guinaldo (Batman legend, Blade Runner 2029etc.) while brooch will put on saturday funny and animated movie Black is Bletza II: Ainhoa, nominated at the recent Goya Awards. Both worked as screenwriters Fermin Muguruzaa reference to the Basque music scene that goes with the cartoonist Susanna Martin and producer jone unanua To talk about this story, it first started in the cinema in Alicante, where the screening of the unprecedented film will take place.