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Anouk Hoffmann-Morin (Berlin, 1996) describes herself like this, laughing. “I’m an architect without a degree and an illustrator without training, but I do both things,” she explains. Hoffmann-Morin has completed a degree in Architecture at the University of Montreal and Philosophy at the University of Quebec. And, even though she doesn’t have the qualifying architect’s degree or formal training in the art world, this hasn’t stopped her from creating a comic book about architecture.

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The Honorary Grand Prize of Comic Barcelona that he received last year –at only 56 years old– was the last recognition missing for Paco Roca (Valencia, 1969), the most important Spanish comic author of the 21st century, who despite his success continues to strive to offer vibrant and restless works, whether it is the journalistic comic strip the journalistic comic strip La vida en espera that he created together with Rodrigo Terrasa for the Diari del Còmic of ARA or his new long comic, El viaje (Astiberri), a story with evident autobiographical touches about a recently separated writer who is forced to spend a few days in a hotel in Patagonia when his flight is cancelled. But El viaje is not just the story of a breakup –in fact, it begins where many stories of heartbreak end, with the separation consummated–, but an immersion into the pain and emotional tribulations that follow the end of a relationship. A moving and honest work by an author in full command of his narrative faculties.

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