Degomagom It is a small independent publisher Created in Ibi in 2018 It is dedicated to the illustrated album of the child who started his journey. Rescue of old illustrations by Miguel Calatayud for the book Imagine Peter Pan. That first title in the catalogue, your editor’s old dreamAccompanied by Octavio Ferrero a dozen more titles published in the last five years fly one of them was published this summer and quarter was the winner of the first Miguel Calatayud Illustrated Album Award of the competition, which will be presented next month, sponsored by the publisher and the Aspe City Council, and promoting a field of this genre that is not well known in our country.
In those five years they also created: two new collections: One of the writer’s notebooks released in the middle of the pandemic Archaic MuralisBy Alicante cartoonist and National Comics Award winner Pablo AuladellAnother drawing by the sculptor from Banyeres de Mariola followed in 2020. Vicente Molina Ferrero, From Mariola to the seaIn 2022; and another collection of illustrated poetry, including an expanded reprint of a story by the Villena author Antonia Rodenas, moon rhymeswith illustrations Asun Balzola. This last branch of children’s poetry is now being added To Grandma NanitaFrom Ibese poet María José Alés With his illustrator Onil Maria Rico.
latest books
This is one of the last four titles added to the catalog this summeras well as a new collaboration with the Galician illustrator, who was selected for three years on the prestigious White Ravens book list. David Painterthat the publisher has already published First Nara dictionary And Nara’s big adventure. The new book illustrated by Pintor, C’est la disaster!Created from a text by Itziar PascualNational Award for Children’s Performing Arts 2019, which tells funny stories of daily disasters.
third Let’s talk about (that) sexAn informative book by the Alicante gynecologist that covers sexuality and puberty in a simple and meticulous way Silvia Delgado with illustrations Paula Alenda.
and the last one how much do i havea study Maite Gurrutxaga Otamendi and Mikel Gurrutxaga OtamendiA story about the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, awarded in the first edition of the Miguel Calatayud Villa de Aspe International Illustrated Album Prize, worth 6,000 euros and selected from 81 proposals received and will be presented at the next Aspe. 12 November. Regarding his next book to be published, Ferrero emphasizes: “I’m very happy to publish this book. Even if it wasn’t a winner, I would still edit it and I think it turned out a very nice edition.” thousand copies.
plans
The publisher’s plans don’t end there, because sometime in 2024 new narrative collection of children’s and young adult novelsIts authors cannot yet be disclosed in detail, but writers from Alicante are definitely the place to be. “The people I really want to work with are Well-known and well-known names in children’s literature will continue to be books that are predominantly visual but contain more text in another format. We receive many offers for picture books, but narrative is the logical step we must take due to the age of the readers to whom the initial recommendations were directed. “The album is designed for boys and girls up to the age of 6 or 7, and from that age they move on to the novel.”
Even though the epidemic is ahead of us, if we count five years A catalog of 13 titles and the publisher’s name illustration award it is an incentive for the future of the newly created Degomagom.
“The balance sheet is very positive” Because we do what we like. we have ups and downs Because they had not been able to organize presentations and events to encourage reading for a long time, and this was a big setback. And although it is said that social networks bring us closer, living in the environment This affects us too, and it doesn’t make things any easier, because after all, presentations have to be made in the capital or go to fairs in big cities, which – according to the editor’s explanation – is an added effort to the printing itself. But we know the profession from the inside, we feel comfortable and We had fun and that’s why we want to take it one step further.