Catalan continues to make inroads in comic book publishers' catalogs, with a diversity of genres and styles that seemed unimaginable a decade ago. Graphic novels, non-fiction, children's comics, graphic experiments, and literary adaptations represent a varied offering with options for all ages.

2025 has been the year of the historic exhibition at the CCCB of Chris Ware, who assured us that The best comic book store in the world is located in Barcelona.We have been visited by renowned authors such as Art Spiegelman, Charles Burns, Jaime Hernandez, Joe Sacco, and Gou Tanabe; we also said goodbye far too soon to the illustrator Amaia Arrazolaand some They stopped reading Neil Gaiman's comicsIn short, a year that's very difficult to summarize in fifteen comics. However, we'll try.

The video game industry is unstoppable in terms of the number of titles released, but unfortunately, this growth is not guaranteed at the business level, with layoffs and closures becoming commonplace. Nevertheless, 2025 was a spectacular year, with a significant number of video games standing out for their quality. This list includes major productions, but also independent titles that have garnered attention and international acclaim.

2024 marked the return to the novel for authors like Toni Sala, Miranda July, Melchor Comes, and Vanessa Springora, and produced such compelling memoirs as those by Richard Flanagan, Patti Smith, and Georgi Gospodinov. In the field of poetry, the new books by Sebastià Alzamora and Ramon Boixeda stood out, as did the publication of a new translation of one of the most enigmatic authors of the 19th century: Emily Dickinson. Catalan essay writing demonstrated its continued strength with new works by Marina Garcés, Raül Garrigasait, and Ingrid Guardiola.

The first major exhibition on the Pan-Africanist movement on a global scale, the committed To imagine landscapes and Matters matters A historical exhibition about comic book author Chris Ware has been one of the highlights of Barcelona's 2025 exhibitions. Internationally, it has once again been a year of big names such as Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, and Jacques-Louis David.

Years ago, deciphering a manuscript or artifact was much more difficult. Scientific advances and new technologies have allowed archaeological discoveries to provide us with far more information, giving each relic a rich history that overturns what many books say. This year, Babylonian texts have been deciphered, a new date has been established for the discovery of fire, a rigorous report has been compiled on how the Counts of Urgell died, and we have been able to see what the temple where Cleopatra worshipped Isis looked like. However, none of this would be possible without human curiosity and the determination to find traces of our past. Without it, for example, we would never have been able to find Kissa.