The comic will once again be the absolute protagonist of ARA's pages next week. To mark the opening of the sector's major fair, Còmic Barcelona, on Friday, May 15th, the entire newspaper will be illustrated by cartoonists. On this occasion, the bulk of the images are part of the history of Catalan comics through the archive of the Generalitat de Catalunya, which is collaborating on this special edition. In fact, past and present will go hand in hand because, as we have done in the now increasingly long tradition of special comic newspapers, the cover and the day's dossier will be handled by a comic author: Paco Roca, along with Valencian journalist Rodrigo Terrasa, will offer their vision of a current topic, and it will be demonstrated once again that comics are also a journalistic genre.

On Friday, April 4th, comics will once again spread across the pages of ARA. Coinciding with the start of Comic Barcelona, ​​​​the sector's major fair, the Diari del Còmic returns, a special edition in which all the news will be illustrated by cartoonists. The initiative, which ARA has already promoted in previous years, reinvents current events with the help of a roster of cartoonists who will contribute their perspective on the news; it will, of course, be a collector's edition, an ARA by author (of authors) to keep and frame.