BOOK / IN SHORT

STORIES

In short, the first short story compilation promoted by the Gran Canaria Island Council and Astiberri Ediciones, includes a total of 12 winning entries (three first prizes—€3,000, €1,500, and €1,000, respectively—and nine runners-up—€400 each; a total of €9,100 in cash has been awarded). A total of 297 different proposals were submitted to this first call, which aims to be held biannually.

As cartoonist Rayco Pulido, National Prize winner with Lamia and a member of the judging panel—which included Carlos García of the Gran Canaria Island Library, cartoonist Mamen Moreu, journalist Tereixa Constenla, and Astiberri editor Fernando Tarancón—points out, the content of En corto "ranges from vulgar humor to narrative experimentation based on geometric abstraction, but in between you'll find suspense, local color, visual poetry, surrealism, social criticism, Siberian adventure, horror... and Viento de Levante." Each story, Pulido assures, "has something that made it shine. I hope readers appreciate the same and that the project consolidates. The national comic book industry needs it."

The jury's decision awarded first prize in the National Comic Contest of the Insular Library of Gran Canaria to the work Viento de levante (Easter Wind) by Alejandro Galindo Buitrago (Alcantarilla, Murcia, 1967), a work that "stands out for its graphic, chromatic, and narrative solidity, based on a circular and academic structure, without renouncing experimentation. The story, which takes place in a Mediterranean setting, where the wind is part of the essence of comics, moves between dreamlike evocations and a certain intrigue, without neglecting humor." Second prize was awarded to La señora Rosa (The Lady of Rosa), by Elisa Riera Ruiz (Barcelona, 1981), a story that "humorously delves into perverse aspects of today's society. With a style that plays between contemporary illustration and underground tradition, its depth in the psychological portrait of the characters stands out." And the third prize went to the work Never, drawn by Francisco Bilbao Borja (Cádiz, 1989) and scripted by Mayte Gómez Malina (Madrid, 1993): "Avant-garde in its graphic staging, it departs from figuration with a geometric and organic style. The relationship between text and image plays a decisive role in the reading."

Title: En corto
Pages: 112
Size: 18 x 26 cm
Weight: 580 grams
Genre: Short Stories
Language: Spanish
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ASTIBERRI
Year: 2018