The exhibition ‘Comics to Puerto’ is shown during these days in a lug of the port of Tarragona, where it will remain in the next few weeks. It is not the first time that this exhibition, owned by the port of Santander, leaves Cantabria, was previously in Malaga and Algeciras. The exhibition began at the beginning of June on the occasion of the celebration in the port of Tarragona of the Spring Meeting of the International Association for the Puerto Ciudad, Rete, which was chaired by the Port Authority of Santander between November 2010 and November 2012.
‘Port comics’ is the graphic representation of the maritime-port universe through vignettes, with comic illustrations by different cartoonists and screenwriters who offer a different look to the world of navigation, ports and sea people.
This exhibition is a work promoted by APS, and materialized by the Unesco Chair of Technique and Culture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, whose objective is to stimulate among the citizenship the interest in the maritime and port world through the language of the comic, its authors, their characters and techniques, providing a unique look at the maritime world.
Jordi Ojeda and Francesc Solé, members of the Chair and Polifacetic intellectuals who combine their professional activity linked to the scientific field with a huge fondness for the world of cartoon, were responsible for developing the work through the links between the maritime-port universe and The comics, for this both did an enormous research and selection work with more than fifty thousand publications read and more than five thousand selected images.
The sample is structured in 10 chapters with different theme: when the story begins in the sea, medieval ports, danger in the sea, economy and sea, life next to the port, places they expect, surprising ports, paper ships, memory of the memory of the future and sea values.
Each chapter is exposed through four panels, and the exhibition is completed with four others as an introduction and 220 reproductions of comics covers.