A total of 92,000 visitors have walked through the Comic Barcelona fair from Friday until today, Sunday. A figure slightly lower than the 110,000 of the previous edition, partly due to the change of pavilion because of construction work inside Fira Montjuïc. That does not take away from Meritxell Puig, director of Ficomic, the organizing entity of this event, feeling “satisfaction” with how things have gone this year and with the sweet moment that comics are experiencing. “More families than ever have come,” she told La Vanguardia while recalling that this 2026 is the year they have had the most authors, both national and international, and the most publishers from different parts of the world, who “have been able to see the talent that is cultivated here, which is no small thing.”

There is no doubt that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is one of the most iconic plays of the 20th century. And it talks about nothing more than a marriage: the battle royale starring Martha and George is legendary, with some iconic lines. Like when she, after hearing him say he can’t take it anymore, shoots back: “You can take it! That’s why you married me!”. Ingmar Bergman delved into the subject with the masterful series Scenes from a Marriage, adapted for the stage a thousand times. Right now, at the Maldà, the company El Eje is performing a quite successful version of the classic, Escenes d’una separació, with a script by Eva Pauné Martínez. It turns Marianne and Johan into Alba and Joana, a lesbian couple trying to survive in present-day Barcelona. They love and hate each other at the same time, but they can’t live without being together. Mar Pawlowsky and Patrícia Bargalló know how to take their characters to the limit, with the mirror of the creatures created by the Swedish genius as a reflection. An excellent performance.