Paco Roca Books

In this intensely intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death.They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market, but as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home.The House, brilliantly rendered on panoramic pages, gives us a glimpse into domestic moments of joy, guilt, and disappointment while asking what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone. At once deeply personal and entirely universal, Paco Roca's The House details the struggle to overcome the past, but still hold onto the memories.

The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain.

"Admitted to a home for the elderly because he suffers from Alzheimer's disease, for Ernest community life feels like an ordeal. But soon he accepts his new environment and decides to fight to escape from giving in to his awful destiny. For the author, the human community is like a library where books are piled up in mountains populated by yellowing paper of dreams and fantasies. Where a life is covered in wrinkles, and some see the writing of their pages disappear, sheet after sheet, until they become completely blank. Despite this, the most intense emotions survive, preserved as a hidden treasure on a remote island."--Page [4] of cover.

This thrilling graphic novel, based on real events and which has been adapted into an AMC Plus miniseries (La Fortuna) starring Stanley Tucci, chronicles the intense legal and political battles sparked by the discovery of a priceless shipwreck.

A graphic nonfiction story of the five extraordinary cartoonists who decided to rebel in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and WWII. In 1957, Editorial Bruguera was one of Spain's largest publishing houses, putting out hugely popular weekly magazines and comics for young and old ― while retaining all rights and creative control of their artists' work. Spanish comics superstar Paco Roca investigates the true story of five cartoonists who, spurred by poor working conditions, arbitrary editorial edicts, and nationwide dictatorial rule, went on a quest for creative freedom. Little did they know that the corporation had begun actively trying to thwart their distribution and publishing efforts, turning their battle into a real-life David and Goliath tale. The Winter of the Cartoonist provides historical context and short profiles of these artists as they serve as everyday heroes for all of those who have chased a dream, no matter how high the obstacles that stand in front of them.

"Francisco, a wounded, despairing sixteen-year-old Republican guard in the Spanish Civil War, is trying to flee to freedom by crossing the French border. In his escape, he encounters an old remote lighthouse, far from the warring factions. He is granted shelter by Telmo, the aging operator of the lighthouse. As Francisco recuperates, Telmo's tales of epic adventurers who sailed the lost seas and discovered worlds unknown reignite the spark of life in the young soldier. By one of the most brilliant new talents in comic art in Spain, author of the world-wide bestseller Wrinkles."

Spain's answer to Seinfeld, these observational, relatable autobio vignettes by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca poke fun at the vexing tribulations of modern life.

How far would you travel to find 'The One'?When chronically indecisive maths teacher Gemma Higgins accidentally enters another dimension, she learns the great secret of existence: that we inhabit a multiverse run by giants, HR managers and angst-ridden writers.

August 1944: Nach der Irrfahrt durch das vom Faschismus zerrüttete Europa und nordafrikanische Arbeitslager erreicht eine Gruppe spanischer Kommunisten und Anarchisten das nazibesetzte Frankreich. An der Seite der Résistance kämpfen sie bis zur Kapitulation der Deutschen. Doch ihr größter Wunsch, die eigene Heimat von der Diktatur befreit zu sehen, soll noch jahrzehntelang unerfüllt bleiben. Anhand der Erinnerungen von Miguel Ruiz, einem spanischen Republikaner, rekonstruiert Paco Roca die kaum bekannte Geschichte der spanischen Exil-Widerstandskämpfer im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Emilio myli pory dnia i roku, gubi przedmioty i umykają mu ich nazwy, czasem zapomina nawet, że nie jest już dyrektorem banku. Z kolei Miguela pamięć nie zawodzi bystrość swojego umysłu wykorzystuje byle tylko się nie nudzić, nie przejmując się zbytnio innymi. Gdy tych dwóch zostaje współlokatorami, nie wiedzą jeszcze, z czym przyjdzie im się zmierzyć. Paco Roca wkracza w świat domów spokojnej starości i z właściwą sobie wrażliwością obserwuje tych, którym życie się wymyka, wspomnienia zaskakują, a sprawczość wygasa. To w Zmarszczkach autor zaczyna swoją podróż po krainie pamięci, którą kontynuuje w Domu czy Powrocie do Edenu. Tu jednak skupia się na bardzo szczególnym momencie konfrontacji starzejących się bohaterów z własną słabością, na niepogodzeniu z chorobą, ale przede wszystkim ogromnej sile, jaką w takich momentach może dać przyjaźń. Wielokrotnie nagradzane i zekranizowane w formie animacji Zmarszczki są dowodem na to, że choć nie da się od starości uciec, to można w niej odnaleźć coś, na co być może nie miało się czasu przez całe dotychczasowe życie.