In this 2025 edition, the festival wants to focus back on the world of comics to show the general public the talent hidden in this noble art of storytelling.
In this ninth edition, mad scientists or mad doctors take center stage. We’ll celebrate with screenings that pay homage to films where scientists obsess over achievements beyond their era’s knowledge, challenging the laws of physics and even God himself. Time to shout skyward: “It’s alive!”
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Xulia Pisón
A Coruña, 1985. @xuliapison
Comic book author and illustrator, she began her career in the world of graphic novels with self-published works, including McCactus (2015), (∞-1) (2016), Legado (2018), and The Drop (2022). Simultaneously, she carried out scientific outreach work for Research Projects such as the comic trilogy Microalgas, and her upcoming work Proteínas.
Víctor Rivas Villa
Pontevedra, 1965. @victorrivasilustrador
Illustrator, graphic designer, and visual communicator with more than 40 years of experience. Since 1985, he has combined his artistic work with teaching in illustration and comics. Specialist in adapting graphic styles to different narrative and editorial objectives.
He began his career illustrating textbooks for publishers such as Xerais, Edebé, or Bromera. Pioneer in digital design for animation and applications from platforms like Commodore Amiga. He worked on books, comics, magazines, and historical novels in Spain.
Since 2008, he has collaborated internationally with publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Oxford, Penguin or Scholastic. He illustrates the children’s series Desmond Cole: Ghost Patrol, with more than 23 published titles.
Since his return to Galicia in 2014, he has published notable works, including the first in the Escarlatina series, a cociñeira defunta saga. Currently, he combines international illustration with training the next generation of illustrators.
Carlos Portela
Vigo, 1967. @en_principio_ya_veremos
The trajectory of this screenwriter is born from the transversality of two worlds: audiovisual and comics. For 90 Arte, he created works such as Impresiones de la Isla, together with Fernando Iglesias; La cuenta atrás, together with Sergi San Julián; and Los Heresiarcas, featuring drawings by Das Pastoras and Gorka, alongside Iglesias and San Julián. Together with Purita Campos, he began Las nuevas aventuras de Esther, the return of the iconic character from Spanish comics, of which three books and two novels were published: Esther cumple 40 and La elección de Esther.
Currently, he is working on the graphic novel “No a menos de 100 pies de distancia” with artist Keko, and the finale of “Las nuevas aventuras de Esther” with Aneke.
In his audiovisual curriculum, it’s worth highlighting his work on Xabarín Club, an iconic program of CRTVG, as well as his script coordination for the program Historias de Galicia. However, most of his career has been spent creating scripts for television series, such as Las Chicas del Cable, Velvet Colección, Hierro, Velvet, A Lei de Santos, Bajo Sospecha, Agua Seca, Padre Casares, or Matalobos.
Recently, he premiered the series Zorro on Amazon Prime and TVE, and, together with Keko, received the Fauve Polar SNCF award from the Angoulême Festival and the Zona Cómic Award, given by Spanish bookstores, as the best comic of 2023, for Contrition. He was also assistant director of Viñetas desde o Atlántico until its 25th edition.
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