Emilio Balcarce

Biografía
He was born in Tartagal, province of Salta, on June 5th, 1956. Emilio Balcarce learnt to write comic scripts by email, his teacher was Alberto Contreras, author of El Regreso de Osiris, a science fiction strip which was published in the newspaper Clarin. At the same time, he studied with Horacio Lalia’s teacher himself and he introduced himself as a cartoonist of his own scripts in 1977 to Alberto Salinas, the great Jose Luis Salinas’s son. His scripts are more preferred than his illustrations, so the very same Salinas introduces him to Ediciones Record, which allows him to start a long career as a scriptwriter in the most important magazines of the country, such as Skorpio, Fierro, Superhumor, D’artagnan and Nippur Magnum, and also in Italy, France, Spain and the US. Balcarce has written more than 500 scripts up to date, including singles and series such as the trilogy Crónicas del Tiempo Medio, Pantanal, Hache and R.E.M., and he has worked with very well known cartoonists, such as Juan Giménez, Juan Zanotto, Lucho Olivera, Enrique Breccia, Arturo del Castillo, Carlos Meglia, Eduardo Risso and Eugenio Zoppi. In 1985, his script El Extraño Juicio a Roy Ely, illustrated by Giménez, was adapted for a movie: Megabit. In 1990, his series Crónicas del Tiempo Medio, with Zanotto as a cartoonist, was voted the best of the year by Argentinian readers, and he received the Eternauta Award. His graphic novel Funeral marked in the year 2009 his return to comics after 24 years of being absent because he devoted himself to journalism.He is currently the chief of police stories in the newspaper Cronica. In this second phase, he wrote more than 20 series for Aurea Editoriale from Italy with illustrations by Jok, Guillermo Dones, Diego Garavano, Dario Brabo and Walther Taborda and he won the first award of comics in the Crack Bang and Boom 2015, the international comic convention celebrated in Rosario.

JOK

Biografía
Scriptwriter, comic illustrator and illustrator, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 12th, 1974. Following Rubén Meriggi, he studied four years with the master Osvaldo Viola (Oswal) and he published in several independent media from the nineties before he became a professional. He is part of La Productora, a self-publishing group of artists, he teaches comics at his own school and he associates with other similar groups from around the world (www.laproductora.com.ar). La Productora comics have been published in France, Spain, the United States, Brazil and Uruguay. Among Jok’s works, there is "Ecos y Tinieblas", "Perfecto", "Decadencia", "Puerto Kapruccia", "¿Quién es Copérnico?" and "Carne Argentina" (a book that was re-edited in Argentina and published in Spain, France, and Brazil). He currently writes and illustrates his series "Simón Luzmala y el retrato robot" for “Pandemonium” magazine from Editorial Thalos, he continues –for the same publisher- the character “Camulus” and he participates in the series “Gayolas” in the historical Argentinian magazine, Fierro. As an illustrator he has published for the overseas market “Adventures of Bio Boy”for Speak Easy (Canada), “The Hill”, and “Vengeance of the Vapor” for Markosia (England) and “Redball 6” Arcana (Unites States). He also illustrated for the Vodafone company in Spain the comic “El Siniestro Dr. Moreland”. “Cuarenta Cajones”, also written by Rodolfo Santullo, will be soon published by Aurea Editoriale. Together with Emilio Balcarce he has published the series “Funeral”, “Terminal”, “Knightmare”, and “Valkiria” in Italy, also through prestigious Aurea Editoriale.