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Ren Galeno

Vita

Renren Galeno is a comic author and illustrator from Davao City, Philippines. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a degree in Fine Arts and currently works in comics and illustration. She illustrated the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist “Searching for Maura” for the Washington Post. Her first graphic novel, “Sa Wala,” won the 42nd National Book Awards Best Graphic Novel and Comics in English, and currently has seven international editions. Her next work, “Full Of Grace,” is an Official Selection of the 2nd Philippine International Comics Festival, and will be released this year.

Programmpunkte

14:00 - 14:30 Uhr SA. 29. MÄRZ
The Horrors of Reality

Monsters hiding in the dark are not the scariest parts of Renren Galeno’s work. Rather, it’s the harshness of reality, the horrors of everyday living, which are the true monstrosity in her comics, "Sa Wala" (Für Nichts)

Veranstalter:
National Book Development Board Philippines
Phantastische Leseinsel 2
13:00 - 13:30 Uhr SO. 30. MÄRZ
To Draw the Everyday

Ren talks about observational drawing and how to create stories from there.

Veranstalter:
National Book Development Board Philippines
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