The central and most important part of the exhibition is dedicated to the winner of the Comic Barcelona 2024 Grand Prize, Marika Vila.

The exhibition aims to provide an overview of her entire work, including her comics, illustrations and animations, as well as her work as an editor, researcher, exhibition curator, critic and promoter of comics, especially of gender work, analyzing the discourse of comics, which she continues to carry out on the basis of her doctoral thesis.

One of Marika Vila's first jobs at the Selecciones Ilustradas agency was to produce commissioned illustrations in various genres, especially romantic. From the 1980s, Marika worked as an illustrator for the cultural sections and Sunday supplements of the newspapers El País and El Periódico de Catalunya, as well as for numerous opinion magazines. She broke the agency's glass ceiling in 1975 when she began her career as a writer, creating a new space for adult comics and feminist transgression. She is part of the so-called Generation of Commitment, along with the Butifarra team, the Comic Strip Collective and Astronave Pirata, pioneering groups at the forefront of transforming Spanish comics during the transition and activating the platforms that would transform them. As a pioneering author, she claims space and visibility for her own voice and rescues the figure of other silenced women, denouncing female stereotypes in her comics in magazines such as Trocha-Troya, Butifarra, Totem, El Jueves, Rambla, Rampa-Rambla, El Víbora, Gimlet, Repórter, Interviú, Gaceta Ilustrada o Barbie, Práctica, Viva, among others.

With the production company Equip, she participated in the Spanish TV cartoon series Mofli, el último Koala (Mofli, the Last Koala) and in Despertaferro, the first Catalan feature film. She was a member of the editorial board of the magazines Butifarra, Trocha-Troya, Rambla, Rampa and Rambla Rock. As editorial producer, she coordinated the magazines Rambla, Rampa and Rambla Rock, as well as the series Dragon Ball and other manga titles from their beginnings in 1993 in Planeta de Agostini Cómic. As a graphic designer, she continues to create covers, posters and logos with Verónica Moretta in the Ikónicas team.