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<\/p>\nPalma’s public library Can Sales is celebrating Comic Book Day 2024 on the 15th and 16th of March. To do so, this space will have a special programme to promote the sector. For the second year in a row, the 17th of March is being celebrated in Spain as Comic and Comic Book Day. The purpose of the commemoration is to recognise the role of comic professionals in social and cultural life.<\/p>\n
This Comic Book Day in Palma aims to highlight our illustrators, which is why this year local artist Alex Fito has been commissioned to create the illustration to celebrate the great comic book festival. The image, converted into a large vinyl, will decorate part of the fa\u00e7ade of Can Sales for the festival.<\/p>\n
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Continuing the vindication of women’s rights and social and labour equality on 8 March, International Women’s Day, the commemorative illustration for this Comic Strip Day 2024 features female characters. The main figures belong to Esther y su mundo by Purita Campos, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first publication in Spain, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrap\u00ed, a reference in comics about women’s struggle for freedom and equality. They are accompanied by another 60 female comic characters from all eras. Taking the illustration as a starting point, the library is organising a competition for its comic readers to try to guess the identity of the comic book women depicted.<\/p>\n
The activities planned for the celebration at the Palma Public Library Can Sales begin on Friday the 15th of March. Tai Sato will take us on a journey through Japanese culture and its comics, called mangas and, in its animated version, anime. The calligraphy workshop will reveal the most commonly used expressions in this field.<\/p>\n
Also on Friday 15th March, the second volume of the collection M\u00e9todo C\u00f3mic. Ciencia en Vi\u00f1etas by the Cl\u00faster de C\u00f3mic y Nuevos Medios de Mallorca and the University of the Balearic Islands, with its authors, Miguel \u00c1ngel Miranda and Luis Resines (Pelopant\u00f3n). The collection, which aims to awaken interest in science at any age, was launched on Comic Book Day 2023 and a year later presents its continuation, Aventura Natura II: Los impactos en los ecosistemas de las Illes Balears (Nature Adventure II: Impacts on the ecosystems of the Balearic Islands). The comics will be distributed free of charge in the libraries of the Balearic Islands.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, the 16th, the first creative writing workshop for comics, run by LiterArt, is scheduled for children between the ages of 8 and 12. The workshop is structured in three sessions, of two hours each, and two more sessions will be held on Saturdays 6 and 13 April. On 16 March in the comic library there will be a comic book exchange table and the readings of the new comic book reading club, which will be coordinated by illustrator Flavia Gargiulo and which will begin next April, will be presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"