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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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."

"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.

Im franquistischen Spanien der 1950er-Jahre wagen sich fünf der seinerzeit populärsten Comiczeichner an die Verwirklichung ihres Traums und kehren dem größten spanischen Comicverlag Bruguera den Rücken, für dessen Magazin Pulgarcito sie zuvor tätig waren (die Heimat der auch in Deutschland populären Figuren Clever & Smart ). Sie verweigern sich der Comicfabrik Bruguera mit ihren Fließbandproduktionen, der Beschneidung jedweder künstlerischen Freiheit und der Missachtung des Rechts am eigenen Werk, und gründen ihr eigenes Comicmagazin Tio Vivo . Doch der Schritt in die Freiheit verheißt nicht nur Unabhängigkeit Vor dem Hintergrund der Franco-Diktatur und der erschreckend aktuell wirkenden tiefen Wirtschaftskrise des Spaniens der Fünfzigerjahre erzählt Paco Roca in lebendigen und atmosphärisch dichten Zeichnungen die wahre Geschichte der spanischen Vorkämpfer für die Anerkennung des Comics als Kunstform Guillermo Cifré, Carlos Conti, Josep Escobar, Eugenion Giner und José Peñarroya. Und damit zugleich eine allgemeingültige Parabel auf den Preis künstlerischer Selbstentfaltung in einer profitorientierten Welt.