Crossed Vignettes

is a comic book writer, illustrator and photographer with a degree in Fine Arts. She entered the world of comics in 1981, contributing to the underground magazine El Víbora, before moving into adapting the work of literary figures and poets to experimental, political and erotic comics. Among other books, she has published El toro blanco (The White Bull, 1989) and Las habitaciones desmanteladas (The Dismantled Rooms, 1999), works in which she adapts literary authors such as Maupassant, Thomas De Quincey and Dylan Thomas.

Pérez Vernetti is a pioneer in the new genre of graphic poetry, publishing nine comics in this new language with the publishing houses Luces de Gálibo, Reino de Cordelia and Centro Cultural Generación del 27. She has shown her work at the Fundación Joan Miró in Barcelona, the Museo Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca, the Musée de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême (France), the Artium in Vitoria and at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. Further, she has received numerous awards, for instance the Trueno de Honor Prize in 2017, the Grand Prize at the 36^th Barcelona International Comic Book Convention in 2018 and, more recently, the “A Life of Vignettes” Award at the Salón SPLASH de Sagunto in 2025, the same year she published Insólitos. Poesía Gráfica.

is a graphic artist, illustrator and comic book writer, and a researcher specialised in gender studies, a lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB), a columnist, and a comic critic for the magazine Serra D’Or. She is also a coordinator of publications, an exhibition curator and disseminates, from activism, the feminist gaze on language. She is one of the first artists to add an avant-garde and feminist gaze to the discourse of the Spanish adult comic book.    

Marika Vila started out in the profession in 1970 as an illustrator and comic book draughtswoman with different publications in Europe (London, IPC Magazines; Scotland, DC Thomson; Italy; and Sweden). In 1975 she started working as a feminist comic book artist with an array of leading adult comic book publications that surfaced in the Transition to democracy in Spain. More recently, she has published the graphic novels Mata Hari (Isla de Nabumbu, 2^nd ed., Island of Nabumbu, 2023) and Moderna Secreta (hija de Morgana) [Modern Secret, (Morgana’s Daughter), Marmotilla, 2025].

In 2017, her research culminated in the doctoral thesis El cuerpo ocupado. Iconografías del cuerpo femenino como espacio de la transgresión masculina en el cómic (The Occupied Body. Iconographies of the Female Body as a Space of Male Transgression in Comics, Universitat de Barcelona, UB, 2017), leading to the touring exhibitions Mujeres cuerpo a cuerpo (Women Body to Body, Museo del Cómic de Sant Cugat, 2019/Tenerife, 2020) and Cossos que parlen. Les representacions del cos en les autores del còmic espanyol (1910-2023) for the Barcelona Local Museums Network (DIBA), in addition to the theory book Desokupar el cuerpo. Las voces de las autoras en el cómic español (De-occupying the Body. The Voices of Women Artists in Spanish Comics, Marmotilla, 2024).

Currently, she combines research, teaching, criticism and theoretical dissemination with illustrations and comics.

studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the N.10 School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid. Since 2004 her work has centred around editorial illustration for publications and media outlets such as Eme21mag, eldiario.es and El País, and in the Vocento group. Moreover, she combines this work in the sphere of illustration and comics with feminist activism, teaching and dissemination, and is currently a contributor to Cadena SER’s talk show of graphic humourists, A vivir que son dos días.

Her early forays into comic books were as the draughtswoman of works in Hire. El terrible vampiro samurái (2004, with Daniel Hartwell) and Mad Trio (2005, with Jason DeGroot), while her first fully fledged solo work was in the volume Quattrocento (2006). In 2011 she published her first graphic novel, El brujo, inspired by popular culture in Chile, earning her widespread recognition among readers and critics. This was followed by the experimental comic Epigrafías (Epigraphs, 2016) on the life of American poet Natalie Clifford Barney. In 2021 she published her first book with Reservoir Books, the biographical investigation Doña Concha. La rosa y la espina (Doña Concha. Rose and Thorn), three years in the making. Her most recent graphic novel is La tierra yerma (Wasteland, 2024), marking a return to her much-loved adventure comic.

is an illustrator and comic book writer. Her work is broadly autobiographical and explores issues related to madness, trauma, family relationships, religion and popular rites. Graphically, her work explores drawing and embroidery as a support for her illustrations and comic strips. 

In 2022 she received a grant to carry out a graphic novel residency at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême (France). In France, she has published France Des maux à dire (Sarbacane), in Spanish El Cuerpo de Cristo (Body of Christ, Astiberri), which was awarded the Jury Prize at the Festival BD 2023 in Pèrigord, the Audience Award at the 2024 Angoulême Festival, the 2024 Bédélys Award at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival for the best international work, the Grand Prize at the 2024 Heroína Madame Figaro, the 2024 National Comic Book Award and the 2025 Award for the Best International Graphic Novel at the Napoli Comicon Festival. She has recently adapted this book to a short animation film.

is a French Hispanist and an emeritus professor at Université Clermont Auvergne. She was the coordinator of the European Action COST iCOn-MICS (Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural Area) until 2023 and is the co-founder of the PACE (The Academic Platform on Comics in the Spanish Language). Her current works focus on memory-based narrative in comics, the influence of the 1980s on today’s Spanish comic books, female authorship in comics and, in general, new trends in the contemporary comic strip. She is the coordinator of collective books like Narrativa gráfica de la Guerra Civil. Perspectivas globales y particulares (Graphic Narrative in the Spanish Civil War. Global and Individual Perspectives, Grafikalismos, 2020, publications service of the University of León), La historieta ibérica y la bande dessinée franco-belga: relaciones, intercambios (The Iberian Comic Strip and the Franco-Belgian bande dessinée: Relationships, Exchanges, Neuróptica 3, 2021, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza) and Renovación del cómic en español: lecturas de España a Hispanoamérica (Rekindling the Comic Book in Spanish: Readings from Spain to Hispanic America, GRIMH, col. Zoom, 2022).

is a Hispanist and a lecturer in Graphic Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne (France), and the director of the university’s Hispanic Studies Department and a member of the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and Art History from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and the Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland). From 2023 to 2025 she has been overseeing the European project iCOn-MICs “Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural Area” (2020–2025) and has co-directed the CALC project “The Spanish Artistic Canon. Between Critical Literature and Popular Culture: Propaganda, Debates, Advertising (1959–1992)”, developed inside the framework of EHEHI–Casa de Velázquez (2024–2026). Furthermore, she develops and propels the European Project COST Action COS-MICs “Comics and Sciences through Multidisciplinary Investigation and Collaboration” (2025–2029). Her research centres on comics, including the fields of female authorship and digital comics, in addition to art history and museology.

is a journalist and critic who conducts research into popular culture and its manifestations, with a deeper focus on film and comics. She also wrote, with Diego Salgado, Viñetaria. Historia universal de las autoras de cómic (Viñetaria. A Universal History of Women Comic Book Writers and Artists, Cátedra, 2024). With Salgado, she also curated the encounters and seminars Thyssen: The Ninth Passenger. Encounters with Comic Artists (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2024), Comics, Thought and Popular Culture (Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2023) and The B Side of Reality: Weird Feminism (La Casa Encendida, 2022). McCausland has also headed initiatives such as the Colectivo de Autoras de Cómic (The Collective of Women Comic Book Writers and Artists, 2013–present), the First Congress of Feminist Comic Book Genealogies (Complutense University of Madrid, 2024), the third edition of the Injuve Comic Book Conferences La alquimia de la viñeta (The Alchemy of the Vignette, 2024) and the first edition of the Madrid Comics Fair (2025). She is also the promotor and a member of the Chair of the University of Alcalá de Henares on Research and Comics Culture and, with the Comics Chair from the University of Valencia, has organised film and comics seminars.