Interview with several feminist authors Joxe Azurmendi in the winning comic book of the Creative Scholarship

Joxe Azurmendi's " funny and demanding "comic book project by Ainhoa Olaso, Usue Egia and Mikel Urdangarin has won the Creative Scholarship of the 60th edition of the Durango Fair, as announced today by the Gerediaga Association and the mayor of Durango, Mireia Elkoroiribe, at a press conference held at the Ahotsenea Literary Center.

The work is the "collage" that the jury has chosen "unanimously" from the twelve works and fictional interviews between the giant thinker Joxe Azurmendi and several feminist authors (Angela Davis, Simone Weil, Vandana Shiva, Jule Goikoetxea...).

In We Are Little Men , the interviews that Michael Urdangarin proposed at the level of ideas will be carried out jointly by the three authors on the pages of the comic book and confronted, in fiction, by Azurmendi and feminist thinkers.

In this way, they will work on a number of current social issues, "with a little non-academic stroke": "We are very happy, and we want to have fun creating the comic book," Olaso explained in collecting the award.

"The intellectual world, from humor."

The jury, composed of Unai Iturriaga, Esti Albizu, Ainara Azpiazu Axpi, Adur Larrea and Garazi Arrula, has highlighted "the intention to cultivate the intellectual world from humor and a playful attitude."

"The winning project is a long-breath project that goes beyond an accumulation of anecdotes, and, coupled with the graphic aspect, the choice made for an unacademicist aesthetic of its own outside of formalism, which could coincide with that of the intellectual position of the authors mentioned in the story," the resolution says.

In the comic book, Joxe, a student at the Arantzazu shrine, will seek the meaning of life when his father has just died, in the midst of a crisis of faith, while in the United States, he will activate the anti-racist struggle Angela Davis and begin his political career, and then the path of these two characters will come together and meet several little men.

The result of the work of screenwriter Ainhoa Olaso, cartoonist Usue Egia and philosopher Mikel Urdangarin will be seen at the 2026 Durango Fair.