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Events
July 1 - May 25, 2025 (Multi day event)
Comic-Con Museum, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego and sponsored in part by Cross Border Xpress, announces the opening of “Border Blitz: Artistas del Cómic de Tijuana,” a binational exhibition and participating World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 community initiative.
The exhibit showcases the work of Charles Glaubitz, Alejandra Yépiz Portillo, and Urbano Mata, representing three generations of artists. Crafted from personal experience, these artists have found in comics a means of expression and, in Tijuana and the border, a space for creation, evolution, inspiration, and artistic experimentation. The exhibit is a participating World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 community initiative, which aims to leverage design for economic, social, cultural, and environmental advancement.
The fantastic mythologies of Charles Glaubitz dazzle and enchant the viewer. With a natural mastery of color and form, Glaubitz has developed a very personal universe, where the seen and the imagined, the everyday and the unusual, the past and the future, and reality and desire coexist and intermingle. The artist handles many layers of meaning with fresh mastery—including alchemy, traditional Mexican art, quantum physics, science fiction, and tacos—to create a mythology of the here and now, a high-tension art where the present is iridescent and fleeting matter.
Alejandra Yépiz’s work recreates her particular universe in stories that have sincerity as their motive and at their center. The images and dialogues accompanying them are born as reflections of their personal experiences. There is a luminous naturalness in the way the artist constructs her stories, each with a deep element of warmth and humanity. This honesty is translated into the drawing and the words of her stories. The author takes us with firm gentleness, guiding us through each painting and each page until we reach the unexpected end of her stories.
Urbano Mata’s art lies between testimony and a highly imaginative interpretation of his environment. His work can sometimes be seen as a kind of record of the altered pulse of the city of Tijuana and, other times, as an interior chronicle of the many stories and characters that inhabit it, starting with himself. His eye does not shy away from the chaos that transforms all aspects of urban life, because he knows that truth and perhaps beauty are found there.
