Guy Nadaud (Bayona, 1948), better known as Golo, is one of the most re- presentative comic book authors of the graphic novel in France. Began his career in the 1970s and is the author of over 20 albums among the found “Istrati. El vagabundo ”(Astiberri), his first work published in Spanish to date. He discovered Egypt by chance 35 years ago and said that every time he had a little money and he would travel to this country. From time to time he contributes to some local media, making cartoons for the Egyptian press or making graphic novels on subjects of interest.

Josune Urrutia, BBAA graduate from the University of the Basque Country, studied illustration at Escuela Arte Número Diez in Madrid. After ten years working and living in Madrid as a graphic designer, currently works devotes body and soul to illustration and comics. Develop illustrations for editorial projects, books or any other application you need to be illustrated. She recently received a scholarship from the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France, and is working on a comic book about women, art and cancer. Some of his most important publications are: A Brief Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of MY Cancer, Here’s How I See Myself, and A Brief History of Pepper for Extraterrestrial Life.

She is the editor in charge of Creature Editor. She has a degree in Literature and works as a proofreader, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences (focusing on translation), teacher of Spanish, Academic Writing, Proofreading and bookseller. Criatura editora was born at the end of 2011, in La Lupa Libros, sharing the philosophy, the concept and the way of working that has accompanied this small bookstore of the Old City of Montevideo since its beginnings. We define ourselves as an independent project, due to the nature and identity of the enterprise and the origin of our resources and financing.

Julien Magnani, a graduate of the Estienne school, is a freelance editor at Éditions Magnani in Paris. Very attached to books and popular culture, from 2007 to 2010 he co-organised Les plus beaux livres français, aimed at promoting contemporary publishing creation. After working for several publishers, in 2011 he founded Éditions Magnani, a publishing house dedicated to the book illusion. According to his philosophy, the publisher is not just a supplier of authors or a developer, but a builder of books and design.

Lola Lorente was born in Bigastro, Alicante in 1980. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and studying illustration at L’Escola Massana (Barcelona). She was nominated as a revolutionary author at the Barcelona International Comics Fair in 2007 and has received numerous awards such as the first illustration prize INJUVE 2006, or the Creacómic prize, CAM 2009. She also has a remarkable career of individual and group exhibitions, among which the exhibition “A year in Angoulême”, 2010, at the Alhóndiga Museum in Bilbao, with originals from the Sangre de mi sangre project (Astiberri, 2011), which was partly produced during her stay at the Maison des Auteurs in the French city, a creation center that houses authors from all over the world from different artistic disciplines.

Montevideo, 1987. Self-taught cartoonist, he studied Architecture and Fine Arts. He published the comic strip Fedra in the collective blog Marche un cuadrito (which won the Sheldon award for best webcomic in 2012), and continues to publish with dubious regularity the comics Radiobujada and Café con Máximo in his blog. In 2011 he published his first book, Aloha, which was re-published in Spain the following year and won a prize from the Banda Dibujada (Buenos Aires). He has published several comic strips in collective books and magazines in Latin America (Volcán, Tabaré en viñetas, Larva, Brígida, Uruguayez, among others). In 2016 he published a monthly strip about dogs for Revista BLa and currently he publishes one about sports in Revista Túnel. With a script by Roy he published Greatest Hits in 2016 and Cannabis in 2019. She has participated as a guest in festivals in Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. In 2017 she created together with ca_teter the fanzine label Ediciones de la uniceja, with which he has published several titles.

Mai-Li Bernard is a French designer and illustrator born in 1986 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Mai-Li Bernard graduated in applied arts before studying at the European School of Image of Angoulême, from 2005 to 2010. She then benefited from a residency at the Maison des Auteurs d’Angoulême and was twice winner of the Young Talent Competition at the Angoulême Festival. Her colorful and geometric style defines him very well and we can hear him talk about his work this year at Irudika.

Maïte lives in Marseille and is currently working for the literary fiction festival Oh Les Beaux Jours! where for six days they bring together more than a hundred authors and artists in a programme full of meetings, screenings, performances, concerts, book signings and interventions in public space. Maïte tells us about Philippe's bookshop, as she was his first scholarship holder. The vision of the person who shares a counter in the bookstore with Philippe helps us to understand how special this place is, and this project.