The city of Barcelona hosted this weekend the 41st edition of the Saló Internacional del Còmic , an important event for lovers of comics and graphic novels. The landmark, in addition to serving to present new developments in the sector, host signatures of authors, expand knowledge or enjoy various activities for all audiences, has consolidated itself as a space of recognition through the delivery of various awards. Among them, the Gran Premi Comic Barcelona which is given in recognition of the professional career of a Spanish comic author with a minimum of 25 years of published work. This year, the artist awarded with the Grand Prize was Trini Tinturé , born in Lleida in 1935, who recently joined the fund of

Mulberry Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida with one of his best-known series, “Emma is lovely” (1989).

Female comics

Trinidad Tinturé Navarro, artistically known as Trini Tinturé, is one of the most important figures in European comics who, between the decades of the 50s and 80s, created a style especially for the female audience and where internationally known characters such as “Oh Tinker!” (published in Spain as ‘El hada violeta’) or ‘Curly’, among others. Self-taught, at the age of 17 she was awarded the artistic drawing medal of the Cercle de Belles Arts de Lleida, and two years later she left for Barcelona, ​​where she quickly began working for small publishers, drawing what was then they said ‘fairy notebooks’. In 1960 he joined the Bruguera publishing house where he drew for the Celia and Sissi series, from where he made the leap abroad, and began publishing Biggi’s comics in countries such as Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom , Jurtz, JampShop, Tina or Twinkle.

In the decade of the 80s, together with the screenwriters Andreu Martín and Francisco Pérez Navarro, he created his most popular series: “Emma is lovely”, for the magazine Lily (Bruguera publisher). Tinturé drew the character until the closure of this publishing house in 1983. Later, Glenat Ediciones would partially republish it in two volumes, in 2006 and 2008. After the end of Bruguera, the illustrator continued to work in Germany with the ‘editoral Bastei and in the Netherlands in the magazine Tina and Penny . A long artistic career that has taken his line through several countries and that has made him, along with Purita Campos, one of the creators of this style of drawing that accompanied an entire generation.