Today, Thursday 27, the XVI Conference of the comic of the University of Alicante, better known as unicomic. In them there will be mainly conferences on comics and author meetings until Sunday 30. In the first we will have front-row speakers such as Álvaro Pons, Manuel Barrero, Antonio Martín, Francisco J. Ortiz, Eduard Baile López y Jesus Jiménez. As far as the authors are concerned, people like El Torres, Fefeto, Carlos Esquembre, Ramón Pereira, Ramón Boldú, Sento, Vicente Damián, Jorge Jiménez, Francis Portela, Pablo Durá o David Abbey. Apart from the conferences and meetings there will also be tributes such as the one organized to enlarge the figure of Moebius. All events will take place at the Alicante City University Venue (Avda. Ramón y Cajal 4, opposite Paseo Canalejas) and entry to them is free until full capacity is reached. The event poster has been designed by Max Wind. I leave you with him SCHEDULE full below:
Thursday, March 27.
Reflections on the comic (I)
09: 00-09: 15: Inauguration of the Conference. With Carles Cortés, Vice-rector for Culture, Sports and Language Policy UA; David Morcillo, President of the UA Student Council; and David Rubio, President of the Consell de la Joventut d'Alacant.
09: 15-09: 30: Contents and Evaluation (José Rovira Collado, UA).
09: 30-10: 00: The comic to promote oral expression: an exemple d'ús a l'aula universitària (Eduard Baile, UA).
10: 00-10: 30: From the artistic canon to the school canon of Unicómic (Francisco J. Ortiz & José Rovira Collado, UA).
10: 30-11: 00: The story of Mortadelo (Ramón Sánchez Verdú).
11: 00-11: 15: Break.
11: 15-13: 00: Comic conquers IES La Canal: an interdepartmental proposal (IES La Canal Petrer Teaching Staff: Magdalena Fernández Amorós, Daniel Gilbert Rico, Fernando Navarro López, Luis Ochoa Monzó, Esther Pastor Espuch and Sabina Sendra i Marco ).
13: 00-14: 00: Round table: "Didactic possibilities of the comic". With Antonio Díez Mediavilla, UA; Teaching staff IES La Canal Petrer; and Unicómic.
Reflections on comics (II) / Meeting with authors (I)
16: 30-17: 30: Conference: “50 years of comics… Antonio Martín: profession and industry seen from within over half a century (1964-2014)” (Antonio Martín).
17: 30-18: 00: Presentation of Clueca 2014 - Research network in university teaching (Francisco J. Ortiz & José Rovira Collado, UA).
18: 00-18: 45: “LES COMICS OK ASE”: frontiers of sequential narration on digital media (Jaume Ros Selva, UA).
18: 45-19: 00: Break.
19: 00-19: 45: Superbollos, supermaricas and other representations of affective-sexual diversity in the comic (Guillermo Soler, UA).
19: 45-20: 45: MEETING WITH FEFETO: Presentation by Anselmo. Sometimes I see divas ...
20: 45-21: 45: MEETING WITH CARLES ESQUEMBRE: Presentation of The Body.
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Friday, March 28.
Reflections on the comic (III): Tribute to Jean Giraud 'Moebius' (1938-2012)
10: 00-10: 45: Inside Moebius (Lilian Fraysse).
10: 45-11: 30: Blueberry, from cinema to comics and vice versa (Israel Gil, UA).
11: 30-11: 45: Break.
11: 45-12: 30: Moebius: his journey through Totem through science fiction (Luis F. Güemes Suárez, UA).
12.30-13: 15: Moebius and the cinema. The Jodorowsky connection (Francisco J. Ortiz, UA).
13.15-14: 00: Jean Giraud-Gir-Moebius, three characters in search of an author (Álvaro Pons, University of Valencia).
Reflections on the comic (IV) / Meeting with authors (II)
16: 00-17: 30: Screening - Tribute to Moebius: The masters of time (René Laloux, 1982) (VOS).
Workshops of the second semester. Course 2013-2014
17: 30-18: 30: Conference: "Catalan comic strip show, 1854-2014" (Antonio Martín).
18: 30-18: 45: Break.
18: 45-19.45: MEETING WITH RAMÓN PEREIRA AND RAMÓN BOLDÚ: Presentation of La voz que no cesa. Life of Miguel Hernández.
19: 45-20: 45: MEETING WITH SENTO: Presentation of a novice doctor (VI International Prize Fnac-Sins Entido de Novela Gráfica).
20: 45-21: 30: Round table: "Historical memory in vignettes" (With authors and specialists).
March 29 Saturday.
Reflections on the comic (V)
10: 00-11: 00: Conference: “Panorama of the comic strip in Spain today. Transformations of the publishing fabric in the XXI century ”(Manuel Barrero, Tebeosfera).
11: 00-12: 00: Lecture: "Epistemological mapping of the study of the comic from a communicational model of the medium" (Jesús Jiménez, University of Seville).
12: 00-13: 00: Round table: "Comics on the net" (With Manuel Barrero, Tebeosfera; Álvaro Pons, La Cárcel de Papel; and Francisco J. Ortiz, Abandonad all hope).
13: 00-13: 15: Break.
13: 15-13: 45: Graphic narration and inclusion. From the album to the comic (Pilar Pomares, UA).
13: 45-14: 15: The comic in the Language and Literature class for Secondary Education (Esther Pastor Espuch, IES La Canal Petrer).
Meeting with authors (III): Publish in the USA
16: 30-17: 30: New experiences in comics: tablets, crowdfunding and blogs. With La Cabra Loca Company (Alfonso Bravo, Gabriel Cuestas and Jorge de Prada 'Kokhe') and Vicente Damián (El Cauterizador).
17: 30-18: 30: How to become a comic book writer: good and bad practices. With El Torres (The Veil, Nancy in Hell, The Suicide Forest, Drums) and Pablo Durá & David Abadía (The All-New Aguila).
18: 30-18: 45: Break.
18: 45-19: 45: MEETING WITH JORGE JIMÉNEZ (Red Lanterns, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Smallville. Season 11, Arrow).
19: 45-20: 45: MEETING WITH FRANCIS PORTELA (Wolverine: First Class, Halo, Black Panther, Animal Man, Legion of Super-Heroes).
20: 45-22: 00: Round table with the authors.
March 29 Saturday.
Demonstration of graffiti and urban art inspired by the world of comics, by Alicante Colors, in Paseo Canalejas. (Start: 10:00 h.)
Comic Festival, at Cherokee Pub Tavern (C / Santo Tomás 8). (Start: 23:59 h.)
Sunday, March 30.
Demonstration of board games based on comics, by Jornadas Lústicas de Alicante (JLA), in El Claustro Building (C / Labradores 6), classrooms 1 and 2. (From 17:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m.)