Eva Mena graduated in Fine Arts and started painting graffiti in 1996. Her murals are scattered in countries such as Morocco, Brazil, Palestine, France, Egypt, United Kingdom or Norway. Her personal work is full of women acti- vists and feminists whose struggle and message she values and makes visi- ble. Music inspires many of her works, what musicians create and transmit, singers ... she also frequently gives conferences, classes, graffiti workshops and events where she shares her knowledge.

Astiberri Ediciones is a comic book publisher which, since its creation in March 2001, has maintained a policy of content aimed at an adult audience, regardless of their age, and not necessarily used to comics. Fernando Tarancón has a degree in journalism from the UPV/EHU. He has worked as a bookseller at Joker since 1994. He is one of the founding partners of Asti- berri, where he has been collaborating with his colleagues as an editor since 2001. He is the comic book publisher that has received the most nominations for the awards of recent years at the Barcelona International Comic Fair. Five of its published works have been awarded the National Comic Prize, among dozens of other prizes.

Francisco Cunha was born in Montevideo. He is a draftsman, illustrator and graphic designer. Founder of the Montevideo Drawing Club, Gráfica Ilustra- da del Uruguay and of Mundial, design studio. Drawing is the main language of his creations in the field of art, graphics, animation and illustration. His work has been exhibited in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Bogotá and New York. Uruguay’s National Illustration Prize for the series “Un día de chats”, also selected for the international Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. In 2018, it became an album released in Argentina and Uruguay. In 2019, he edited his second book “Tilín-Tilín” with Martín Azam- buja. And he also receives a special mention in the 2019 Uruguay National Illustration Award.

La Pastéque was founded in July 1998 and its first publication, Sput- nik 1, was available in December of the same year. Created by Frédéric Gauthier and Martin Brault, the publisher has published over 230 titles up to the date. Beginning as a romantic idea of two friends at the Montreal Comic Festival, they have become an international reference publisher in the field of comics and illustration. Their books translated into many languages and their bookstore gallery are an example of the possibility of producing beautiful and high quality books for all audiences. They currently manage their own gallery and bookshop.

Geneviève is a Canadian illustrator and graphic designer. She has worked in various books such as the one published this year “A noise in the walls” and
in various publications such as Reader’s Digest, Pica Magazine or L’Actualité. She also works with different clients such as agencies, festivals, makes posters, animation and runs a small online store where she sells products created from her illustrations and designs.

Querol is the municipal councillor of the village of Sarrant: a French commune in the department of Gers in the Midi-Pyrénées region within the historic territory of Gascony. It is an ancient bastide whose medieval remains place it in the category of the most beautiful villages in France. It is particularly known for its annual festival of medieval dance and music, and for some years now for being the village of illustration thanks to Les Estivales, and other illustration-related activities that take place in the village, as well as having LAMIS, the house of illustration of which George is co-owne./p>

Gilles Bachelet was born in 1952 in Saint-Quentín, in the north of France, but spent his childhood in the Pyrenees and studied at the Superior School of Decorative Arts (Paris). From 1977 he began to receive commissions as a freelance illustrator and abandoned his studies to devote himself fully to the world of work. Since then, he has produced illustrations for the press, advertising and books. He currently teaches illustration and editing tech- niques at the Ecole Superieure d’Art de Cambrai, France. He has received awards on various occasions, such as in the Montreuil Book Room and Youth Press and the Andersen Prize from Italy for his book Le Chevalier de Ventre-à-Terre, also published by Editorial Juventud. Gilles had just received the Grande Ourse prize. A recognized distinction from the Salon de la Pres- se et du Livre Jeunesse in Montreuil, France. One more star in his dossier.