On June 16, 2021, the deadline to participate in this initiative promoted by the Culture Area with the aim of promoting creativity, fostering artistic expression and supporting interest in the world of comics in the city was closed.
The I Comic Contest included in its bases two categories by age, one up to 17 years, in which 13 works were presented, and another from 18 years, in which 16 works were received.
Likewise, they highlighted the great graphic and creative quality of the stories presented in which very diverse topics were dealt with with very varied techniques and in which there are samples of all styles and types of comics, some closer to the classic adventure comics or comics. superheroes, others more influenced by manga and also examples more related to the graphic novel.
The winners in each category were announced on June 30, 2021. The jury was made up of three people related to the world of Culture, Art and Comics.
The contest has had a great participation of young people. Laura López Cano and Mencía Paula García Castillo have been the winners in their category with a work in which they reflect on toxic relationships and the ability of women to detect and get out of them today. On his part, Tomás Cortina, the youngest of the winners, has won the second prize with a comic of great pictorial quality and a story that brings the samurai to the 21st century.
Melissa Castiñeira Pereira, in the category over 18 years old, and Laura López Cano and Mencía Paula García Castillo, in the one for minors, have been recognized.
Melissa Castiñeira Pereira's work, entitled Pantalax, recovers the manga aesthetic, while Alejandro Zaragoza Ortega, second prize in the category over 18, with 'La joven del fuego', leaves us a comic book that includes multimedia elements through a code QR in which we can listen to the music that the story talks about and thus immerse ourselves directly in it, a sad and evocative story.
The first prize is endowed with a check for 100 euros and the second with a check for 50 euros for the purchase of material at the Pergamo Bookstore.
