ToonMates: Madrid’s animation community, with beer

Why it surfaced

ToonMates turns a creative network into a recurring social infrastructure: professionals share advice over beer, emerging artists sell prints and fanzines at ToonMarket, and the association keeps its doors open to the wider community. The site also introduces the seven people behind the project, which gives this polished community page a welcome human scale.

A Madrid association for animation and illustration that organizes monthly BeerMates gatherings, art markets, talks, masterclasses, workshops, and portfolio reviews.