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Think in the thread that connects the North American classic westerns with Akira Kurosawain “The Seven Samurais” either “Yojimbo”the spaghetti westerns shot in Spain, or the conventions of black cinema adapted to the Argentine police of the fifties, in films such as “Never open that door” either “Bitter stems”. Even Bollywood has absorbed in its own way the narrative strategies of American musicals, who do not stop the action to sing and dance.

This absorption of talented people from all over the world that is installed professionally in the world of entertainment and American popular culture is easy to track into a comic-con. The identity of Hispanics / Latinos – or the name Mamarrachas Latinx, and its last varianta, Latine – is particularly interesting because it raised in two ways in the panels presented this year. The first is to proclaim Hispanic to Rajataba, and denounce historical mechanisms of discrimination and silencing, inviting activism based on more or less explicit theories of race, gender and ethnic minorities.

The second is to place the creative process in the first place, avoiding tribal belongings. We saw how they resolved this issue of identity, very clearly, in the case of three Argentine participants: Ricardo Siri, Liniersthe creator of the daily cartoon “Macanudo”which has been published in the United States since 2018; The director and screenwriter Andrés Muschietti, that cultivates horror cinema with great competition, and Barbara Muschiettihis sister, also a screenwriter, and producer of his three films in the United States: “Mother” (2013), “Item” (2017), “IT: Chapter Two” (2019).

Liniers

Candidate for an Eisner award for his latest graphic novel for young readers, “Night Stories “, Liniers He was one of Comic-Con special guests.

In an animated dialogue with the designer/editor John Lindhe described his life and work so far, in Buenos Aires, where he was born in 1973, and since 2018 based with his wife and three daughters on the outskirts of New York. His artistic production goes beyond the daily strip on the dreamer Enriqueta (renamed Henrietta), which appears in English, and covers graphic novels for boys, several covers for New Yorker magazine, advertising illustrations and even a musical show collaborating with a singer.

The Liniers artistic horizon has expanded since its indentation in the United States. In collaboration with his wife Angelica Erhardt del Campo publish in a few weeks “The Ghost of Wrekers Cove”. Without having lost an apex of your identity and style, Liniers You do not need to talk about them in ethnic terms. His art does it for him.

The Muschietti

Andrés Muschietti, He was born in Vicente López in 1973, studied at the University of Cinema, founded by Manuel Antín In the 1990s, and thanks to a short film presented at the Sitges Festival in 2008, it ended up installed in Los Angeles, supported by Guillermo del Toro. He directed two feature films based on the voluminous novel of supernatural horror “Item”of Stephen Kingpublished in 1986, launching his career in Hollywood. Your sister Barbarascreenwriter, two years older and also graduated from the University of Cinema, is the producer of these films.

The Muschietti They came to present a new series for HBO, “WELCOME TO DERRY”next premiere. They met an enthusiastic and intrigued audience by the plot thread of the series, which has three seasons, each located in a different decade. The series returns to “Item” To develop “interstices” of history, expanding characters and episodes linked to the evil entity embodied in the Pennywise clown.

The Muschietti “Rubes, spiky, elegant, dressed in black,” they introduced in perfect English with slight Argentine accent, the first ten minutes of the first season. Fans met a master class on how to direct a sequence of horror, not only for the refined management of cinematographic language but also because of the aesthetic and psychological impact, a Cross to the jaw.

The spectator captures how a diabolical force travels, convened by the fear of a traumatized teenager, who uses a pacifier, until he becomes physically embodied in the belly of a pregnant mother, whose family picks up the boy finger. What “born” in the car triggered a mixture of screams, applause and whistles when the lights were caught. The organizers had given the program and the Muschietti They did not return to the stage. In their brief initial presentation the brothers talked about their cinema, this project, their collaboration with Stephen King and the actors. They are fully integrated into the system.

We return to George Lucas and Guillermo del Toroan experience that allowed Aquilatar in the low hour that the panel laid and work of the creator of “Star Wars”. Essential figure of the new Hollywood, started in the sixties and today relic of the past in 2025, supplanted by the Hollywood Global, Lucas It is a sacrosanct figure for the crowds that come to this and other conventions of popular art.

It was the first visit of Lucas Comic-with, and was seen visibly excited by the exultant reception of 6,500 fans, many in “cosplay” brandishing lightsabers, with the fanfare of Star Wars As a musical background. Guillermo del Toro He supplied with his physical and verbal exuberance the director’s calm profile (81 years). Who remembers Lucas In its creative height, the fragile aspect evokes a man organizing his legacy. The object of the panel was precisely that, to present the Museum of Narrative Art that bears his name, to open in Los Angeles in a few months.

After a brief video showing the building designed as a Moebius tape, without straight angles, with gardens everywhere, even in the vast roof, Lucas simply described the vision of its content: a temple to popular narrative art, tribute to all ways of telling stories, starting with myths, passing through the Cuevas de Altamira, the illustrations of magazines and of course, the comics, classic and modern comics. He spoke with reverence, indirectly citing the Greeks, about the connection between art and emotions, and the need to give historical continuity to a collection that began being a university student.

Member of the Museum Directive Committee, Guillermo del Toro -Melena elegantly disheveled- completed the concepts of Lucas With colorful language, in an Englishman who did not avoid the vulgar tamp, with comic effect. Speaking of artists, to whom artificial intelligence cannot replace, proclaimed forcefully: “Personality, story and emotion don’t com a fucking app.”

To appreciate Comic-with physical training, mental resistance and interest in living what is essentially four days of carnival, the world legs up is required. Thus you can absorb what popular culture offers: the artistic goes not because of the refinement but by the emotions that connect people with stories and characters that they feel as their own.