María Medem

María Medem (Seville, 1994) started self-publishing her comics after studying Fine Arts. Her first long comic was published by Terry Bleu, a small Dutch editorial. She has been included in anthologies such as NOW (Fantagraphics), Cold Cube (Cold Cube Press) and Clubhouse (Colorama), and she has collaborated and continues to collaborate with various fanzines. In 2018, Cenit was published by Apa Apa, winning her the Best Newcomer Award at the 37thBarcelona Comic Fair and the ACDCómic Critics Prize to the Best Emerging Author.

She published Echos with French publisher Fidèle Editions. She has produced illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. She has also made animations for musicians such as Rival Consoles and Hermanos Gutiérrez. His latest comic, Por culpa de una flor, was published in February 2023 with Apa-Apa Cómics and Blackie Books. It has been translated into French by Rackham Editions and will be translated into English by Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.