The reference library centre celebrates the 2nd Comic Book Day with the dissemination of the poster by local artist Álex Fito and a programme of activities on 15th and 16th March.
Comic Book Day
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For the second consecutive year, Comic and Comic Book Day will be celebrated in Spain on 17 March, as a measure to promote the sector and also to recognise the role of comic book professionals in social and cultural life. The celebration is part of the promotion of comics in Spain, as it was on this day that the mythical magazine TBO, which gave the traditional name to the reading of comic strips, began to be published.
The Department of Culture of the Regional Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports wants to highlight the value of our illustrators, which is why this year the local artist Alex Fito has been commissioned to create the illustration to celebrate the great festival of comics. The image, converted into a large vinyl, will decorate part of the façade of the Can Sales Public Library in Palma for the festival.
Continuing the vindication of women’s rights and social and labour equality on 8 March, International Women’s Day, the commemorative illustration for this Comic Strip Day 2024 features female characters. The main figures belong to Esther y su mundo by Purita Campos, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first publication in Spain, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapí, a reference in comics about women’s struggle for freedom and equality. They are accompanied by another 60 female comic characters from all eras. Taking the illustration as a starting point, the library is organising a competition for its comic readers to try to guess the identity of the comic book women depicted.
The activities planned for the celebration at the Palma Public Library Can Sales begin on Friday the 15th of March, when we will travel by the hand of Tai Sato to Japanese culture and its comics, called mangas and, in its animated version, anime. In the calligraphy workshop, we will discover which are the most used expressions in them.
Also on Friday 15th March, the second volume of the collection Método Cómic. Ciencia en Viñetas by the Clúster de Cómic y Nuevos Medios de Mallorca and the University of the Balearic Islands, with its authors, Miguel Ángel Miranda and Luis Resines (Pelopantón). The collection, which aims to awaken interest in science at any age, was launched on Comic Book Day 2023 and a year later presents its continuation, Aventura Natura II: Los impactos en los ecosistemas de las Illes Balears (Nature Adventure II: Impacts on the ecosystems of the Balearic Islands). The comics will be distributed free of charge in the libraries of the Balearic Islands.
On Saturday morning, the 16th, the first creative writing workshop for comics, run by LiterArt, is scheduled for children between the ages of 8 and 12. The workshop is structured in three sessions, of two hours each, and two more sessions will be held on Saturdays 6 and 13 April. On 16 March in the comic library there will be a comic book exchange table and the readings of the new comic book reading club, which will be coordinated by illustrator Flavia Gargiulo and which will begin next April, will be presented.