Gwénola Carrère, Dominique Goblet and Joe Kessler, the core trio of international artists at the center of #AOA24, will reflect on the theme of the festival - the frail balance between the environment and us - and on how it takes shape in their works, which all share an experimental approach and the intent to push the boundaries of the comics language towards ever-new directions.

After the talk "Corpo a corpo" Joe Kessler, Dominique Goblet and Gwénola Carrère will attend the signing sessione with Bianca Bagnarelli, Andrea De Franco, Andrea Bruno, Liza de Nardi, Majid Bita, José Muñoz, Pablo Cammello, Rebecca Valente.

María Medem, one of the most original voices in the contemporary Spanish comics scene, often plays with the oneiric dimension in her landscape. Inside her books, characters that seem to have lost the sense of self wander through melancholic lands drawn in acid tints and geometric marks. Medem - via remote streaming - will accompany us in discovering her imaginary world, starting from her last comic, Zenit, published in Italy by Diabolo Edizioni.

Absolutely Nothing is the title of a novel by Giorgio Vasta, depicting his direct experience with the American landscape. Another name for this meetup may have very well been Disorientation (Spaesamento), title of another work by the author. It could have also been The Nothing Broth (Brodo di niente), first long-form graphic novel by Andrea Bruno. All this to say that we felt a kinship between the works of these two authors, so fundamental to understanding the age we live in. And the most evident convergence of the two is in their representation of the relationship with the landscape, which is never peaceful but alienated, feeding off attrition instead of harmony, and that yet remains essential in order to understand who we are, where we are, why we are. 

The artists hosted at the festival, as well as authors, independent publishers and the public are invited to a last moment of collective drawing to conclude this edition of the festival together.

with the winning author of the competition