COMIC CONTEST GFFF 2024

PEPA PRIETO PUY

Pepa studied Fine Arts and Editorial Design. She has published her work in The New Yorker, The New York Times Parenting, Diari ARA, Here Magazine, El País Retina, among others.

Her illustrations have been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions. She completed an eight-month residency at the prestigious Maison des Auteurs, where she was able to finish her first long-form comic Mis Agendas Semanales which has just been published by Apa Apa cómics, an independent publisher based in Barcelona.

NORBERTO FERNÁNDEZ

Vigo, 1967, comic artist and illustrator.

In the late 80s – early 90s, he participated in various fanzines and published the strips Forest Hill and Guinsy (with script by Carlos Portela) in “Atlántico Diario”.

In the 90s he published his first monograph Fábulas Benévolas, followed by titles such as La leyenda del Caballero Despollado, Quatroccento or Erika.

He worked for “El Víbora” magazine where he published short stories and the series Broz, and for “Eros Komix” magazine where he created series such as Cuando el Timbre suena, Inés or Despollatius World Cup. In “Golfiño” magazine, he drew and wrote O Castelo Regadeira and Golfiña, and executed Percy y Marionetti with scripts by David Gundín.

Later, he would publish in the American market the Graphic Novels Tattered Man, Retrovirus (scripts by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray) and Purity (script by Craig Yoe), as well as creating covers for the series Grimm Fairy Tales.

At Marvel Comics, he worked as an inker on the X-Files series.

For the newspaper “La Voz de Galicia” he created the fascicle collection A Coruña: 800 años de historia, for Edicións Eixo Atlántico O Báculo de Daghda and Destino Frontera (both published in Spain and Portugal), and for Dolmen Editorial in the collection Historia de la Humanidad the volumes Invasiones Germánicas and Historia de China (bilingual edition in Spanish and Catalan). He regularly combines his comic work with diverse illustration and design projects, from role-playing games, cute mascots, various posters to labels for local wines.

FERNANDO IGLESIAS ACUÑA

Fernando Iglesias Acuña is the captain and owner of Librería Baroja (Pontevedra). He likes Berserk. He’s a bookseller, TikToker, and Instagrammer. He’s the most famous Berserk volume buster. His catchphrase: It’s a pleasure to be useful to you.