"I'm a little impressed, I hope not to be paralyzed by mythomania, with these four heroes of my life." This is how the inaugural session of the Kosmopolis Festival, which brought together four guests who, as the director of the CCCB, Judit Carrera, said, "have marked the universal history of comics." It was only natural that the presenter of the event, Jordi Costa, admitted to being nervous before starting the talk with the artists Art Spiegelman, Charles Burns and Chris Ware and with Françoise Mouly, art director of The New Yorker for thirty years. (Yes, the magazine that produces those mind-blowing illustrated covers.) Jordi Costa wasn't the only one impressed in the room: tickets flew off the shelves as soon as they went on sale, there was a lot of anticipation, and a certain emotion was palpable in the air. The truth is, I felt privileged, like I was experiencing a special moment. It was hard to believe those four talents were sitting together, right in front of us, and they were greeted (and bid farewell) with tremendous applause. Chris Ware will forever remember it because he took out his camera and started taking a video of the audience. I don't know if it was an exceptional encounter for them, in the sense that it seemed like they met regularly; they were happy and relaxed. They conveyed a great admiration for one another, and this was perhaps one of the most beautiful things about the night: seeing how they spoke to each other and experiencing the respect they have for each other. Towards the end of the talk, when they were commenting that creating can be hard, an emotional Chris Ware told Spiegelman that it hurt him to hear that for the author of Maus It could be a suffering. "You've inspired me my whole life," Ware told her, and it came so naturally, almost as if it were the first time, that I must confess I was moved.