Premio Nacional del Cómic (National Comic Award) is a Spanish award for comics, established in 2007, as part of the National Awards. The award is given annually (in October or November) by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. It carries a prize of 30,000 euros and recognizes the best comic strip by a Spanish author published in the country during the year prior to the award ceremony, in any of the co-official languages."ORDEN CUL/733/2007, de 20 de marzo, por la que se modifica la de 22 de junio de 1995, por la que se regulan los Premios Nacionales del Ministerio de Cultura, y se convocan los correspondientes al año 2007." (ORDER CUL/733/2007, of March 20, amending the Order of June 22, 1995, which regulates the National Awards of the Ministry of Culture and announces the awards for 2007) (PDF), Boletín Oficial del Estado"RESOLUCIÓN de 22 de mayo de 2007, de la Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas, por la que se desarrolla la Orden de 22 de junio de 1995, reguladora de los Premios Nacionales del Ministerio de Cultura, para la concesión del Premio Nacional del Cómic correspondiente a 2007." (RESOLUTION of May 22, 2007, of the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries, implementing the Order of June 22, 1995, regulating the National Awards of the Ministry of Culture, for the awarding of the National Comic Prize for 2007) (PDF), Boletín Oficial del Estado It is the most prestigious comic strip award given in Spain.Darias, Manuel (28/10/2012). "Dublinés" de Alfonso Zapico, Premio Nacional del Cómic ("Dublin" by Alfonso Zapico, National Comics Award winner), Diario de Avisos.
History The initiative to create this award came from the Congress of Deputies, through the presentation of a non-binding resolution on March 13, 2006, Agencias (13/03/2006). "El PSOE presenta una proposición no de ley para crear un premio nacional del comic" (The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) presents a non-binding motion to create a national comic book award.), Faro de Vigo. urging the Government, through the Ministry of Culture, to establish an award dedicated to comics, which was unanimously approved on April 4, 2006.Europa Press (27/03/2007). "Cultura crea el Premio Nacional del Cómic" (Culture creates the National Comic Book Award), El Mundo.Palacios, Juanjo (05/04/2006). "El Congreso aprueba el Premio Nacional del Cómic" (Congress approves the National Comic Book Award), Zona Negativa. On March 20, 2007, the Ministry of Culture approved an order creating the Spanish National Comics Award.
In its early years, the award-winning work coincided with the most highly regarded work at the corresponding Barcelona International Comics Fair. González, Lucía & Domínguez, Ricardo (9/12/2009). "El cómic sale del 'gueto'" (Comics emerge from the 'ghetto'), El Mundo.
Assessment Before its establishment, excellence in the field of Spanish comics was recognized through awards given at the various comic and manga conventions held throughout the country, although the Ministry of Culture had already awarded its Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts to cartoonists (2000), Francisco Ibáñez Talavera (2001), and Carlos Giménez (2003).
With the creation of the National Comic Award, recognition of the medium and its professionals in Spain increased.Rucabado, Beatriz (16/11/2010). "El cómic tiene una capacidad de contar historias que la gente a veces ignora" (Comics have a storytelling ability that people sometimes overlook.), El Mundo. For the winning works, it has a multiplier effect on sales.González, Lucia (16/11/2010). "La desgarrada 'El arte de volar', premio Nacional del Cómic" (The heartbreaking 'The Art of Flying', winner of the National Comic Award), El Mundo.
However, the very existence of this award was rejected by Vicente Molina Foix, who also received the award in 2007,Molina Foix, Vicente (18/09/2009). "Dibujos animados" (Cartoons), Tiempo de Hoy, p. 61. not without rebuttals in the press.Salas, Carlos (10/01/2010). "Esos señores que hacen monigotes" (Those men who make stick figures), El Mundo.
Winners 2007: Hechos, dichos, ocurrencias y andanzas de Bardín el Superrealista, by Max (Francesc Capdevila), (Ediciones La Cúpula).Agencias (19/11/2007). Max gana el Premio Nacional de Comic 2007 (Max wins the 2007 National Comic Award), 20 minutos. 2008: Arrugas, by Paco Roca (Astiberri Ediciones).Terrasa, Rodrigo (18/11/2008). Paco Roca gana el Premio Nacional de Comic 2008 (Paco Roca wins the 2008 National Comic Award), El Mundo. 2009: Las serpientes ciegas, by Felipe Hernández Cava & Bartolomé Seguí (BD Banda).Pons, Álvaro (05/11/2009). El cómic como análisis descreído (Comics as skeptical analysis), El País. 2010: El arte de volar, by Altarriba & Kim (Edicions De Ponent).Grau, Abel(16/11/2010). 'El arte de volar', crónica del choque de utopía y realidad en la España del siglo XX ('The Art of Flying', a chronicle of the clash between utopia and reality in 20th-century Spain), El País. 2011: Plaza Elíptica, by Santiago Valenzuela (Edicions De Ponent) 2012: Dublinés, by Alfonso Zapico (Astiberri Ediciones).Manrique Sabogal, Winston (22/10/2012). Alfonso Zapico, Premio Nacional de Cómic 2012, por un libro sobre Joyce (Alfonso Zapico, winner of the 2012 National Comic Award, for a book about Joyce), "El País". 2013: Ardalén, by Miguelanxo Prado (Norma Editorial). Europa Press (31/10/2013). Miguelanxo Prado, Premio Nacional del Cómic (Miguelanxo Prado, National Comic Award), "Europa Press". 2014: Amarillo, in the series Blacksad, by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido. 2015: Las Meninas, by Santiago García & Javier Olivares (Astiberri). 2016: El paraíso perdido by Pablo Auladell. 2017: Lamia, by Rayco Pulido. 2018: Estamos todas bien, by Ana Penyas. 2019: El día 3, by Cristina Durán Costell, Miguel Ángel Giner Bou & Laura Ballester Beneyto 2020: La divina comedia de Oscar Wilde, by Javier de Isusi. 2021: Primavera para Madrid, by Diego Corbalán, 'Magius' (Autsaider cómics). 2022: El Pacto, by Paco Sordo (Nuevo Nueve). 2023: Grito nocturno, by Borja González (Reservoir Books). 2024: El Cuerpo de Cristo, by Bea Lema (Astiberri). 2025: Lo sabes aunque no te lo he dicho, by Candela Sierra (Astiberri). 2026: La muerte de Irene Márquez, by Irene Márquez (Autsaider).
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