Below these lines we collect a number of novelties for you. Funny Barcelona. But that’s not all: We also remember the must-see titles whose authors we’ve published interviews with in recent weeks: Max (“Què”), David Rubín (“El fuego”), Alfonso Zapico (“La balada del”) Norte 4′), Léa Muraviec ( “Great Void”), Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (“Waiting”), Bartolomé Seguí (“Boomers”), Raquel Gu (“The Magnificent Age”), Zerocalcare (“Skeletons”), and “No Sleep Until Shengal”) , Jordi Carrión and Sagar (“Museum”) or Juan Díaz Canales and Rubén Pellejero (“Berlinés Nightlife”).
Maria Medem Apa Apa and Blackie Books. €34,90
The song of the cicadas, the scent of rosemary, the sound of the sharpener, an enveloping sunset… a whole host of emotions conveyed by the burst of color, our brand that fills 340 pages of María Medem’s ambitious comic. Sevillian, 28, confirmed in 2018 that her revelation writer awards with ‘Cénit’ were no mirages. Now she invites you to hit the brakes and travel through an inhospitable environment with her lone protagonist looking for a way to reproduce her special flower.
Daniel Torres. Rule. €45
Last year’s Barcelona Comics Grand Prix, Valencian cartoonist Daniel Torres is starring in a great exhibition in the hall in 2023. creator Roko Vargas The author of works such as ‘Picasso en la Guerra Civil’ and ‘La casa’ describes his 40-year career in a very special way in this large-format volume. He does this through 13 illustrations that are a tribute to both the comic and its major references (limited edition of 999 copies, signed by Hal Foster and Prince Valiant).
Igor. Salamander Chart. €25
After previous journalistic comics like “The Russian Notebooks” (about hell in Chechnya and the murder of reporter Anna Politkóvskaya) or “The Ukraine Notebooks” (about the famine that Stalin inflicted on the country in the 1930s), the Italian author has been released for a year. rethinking the first 90 days of the war in Ukraine, with testimonies collected over the phone from Russia’s occupied country, and is once again devoted to truth.
Aude Picault. Garbuix Books. €21.95
Invited to the hall, the author of ‘Diosa’ is alert to a current evil: the lack of calm and self-discovery in the face of pressure to perform at work and put the family in order. This hurts this post-pandemic heroine: Amalia, an overwhelmed employee and mother of a rebellious divorced girl and father of a teenager who embodies the vulgarity of ‘influencers’. One day your body says enough is enough, she says.
Kate Beaton. Rule. €39.59
The author was 21 when he started working at an oil factory in Alberta. This monumental 400-page autobiographical book comes from the ordeal she went through in a deserted camp where she was raped twice. In an environment that was intimidating, threatening, and violent, and so toxic to health that her own sister got cancer after working there, only two women were among 50 men.
Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner. astiberria €25
Young anarchist María la Jabalina, shot in Paterna at the age of 25 in 1942, became the last woman in the Valencian Community to be killed by Francoism. The winners of the 2019 National Comics Award (with “El día 3”) redeem the figure of this militia woman and nurse who were wrongfully accused during the Civil War, an ever-necessary exercise in historical memory.
Charles Burns. Reservoir Books. €19,90
The second volume of the author’s disturbing autobiographical trilogy of ‘Agujero negro’ (La Cúpula is now in a new edition). Always intertwining the subconscious with the real world, Charles Burns introduces troubled young filmmaker Brian and his muse, Laurie, at the start of the shoot in a cabin in a desolate forest. Tension will not wait in the group.
Josep Escobar / Antoni Guiral. bruguera €29,90
The mischievous siblings created by the teacher Escobar, who wants to reflect the problems of the children who will be his readers through them, are 75 years old. The popularizer Antoni Guiral reviews their history and evolution, with a foreword by Albert Monteys, along with his cartoons and unpublished material by the legendary cartoonist from Bruguera, who gave birth to them in 1948 and published the last pages in 1994, when they were finished. 80 years old.
Sandra Hernandez. Bang Versions. €25
Sandra Hernández from Barcelona brings an original interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel without breaking with the spirit of the classic or the atmosphere of horror. She is a heroic woman, medical student and also the mother of the monster voiced by the author. A contemporary vision that talks about motherhood and education, what makes us human, and the fear of being different.
Sivas Martin. Dome. €18,90
Without abandoning its usual gay theme, the veteran Catalan writer’s first historical foray based on Barcelona of the Second Republic in 1935, a few months after the start of the Civil War. In a society where homosexuality is not yet fully accepted, a young textile apprentice from Poblenou experiences an adventure to become a professional boxer.
Santiago Garcia and Luis Bustos. astiberria €15
It is already the fourth volume and not the last of the adventures of this comic book hero, who was created in 2015 and started a parallel television life in the HBO Max series. Along with the already inseparable young leftist journalist Antonia, this Francoist super soldier awakens 60 years after being cryogenically confronted with an espionage scheme in the United States.
Lorenzo Montatore. ECC. €35,50
After his famous anthology ‘Incomplete Works (2015-2022), Madrid’s Lorenzo Montatore embarks on a new, ambitious and avant-garde work that he describes as a “turning point” in his artistic evolution. In it, he reflects on “self-destruction, pity, and stupidity” through the lysergic and tragicomic misadventures of Viti, a decadent painter who escaped his lonely reality and lack of inspiration by consuming a drug through his eyes. .
Sammy Harham. Fulgencio Pimentel. 35 €
Sammy Harkham, one of the most influential figures in American comics of this century and editor of the ‘Kramer’s Ergot’ anthology, gave this masterpiece ten years. In it, the writer invited to Cómic Barcelona focuses on early ’70s Hollywood through a young father and husband working on a low budget in the horror film industry, fed up with family life and artistic aspirations.
James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Chris Shehan and Werther Dell’Edera. Funny planet. €17,95
American screenwriter James Tynion IV, guest of the show, won three Eisners for his gruesome bestselling ‘Something Kills Children’ series. Now, along with its ‘spin-off’, ‘La casa Slaughter’, comes a trio: the equally award-winning horror mini-series ‘The nice house on the beach’ with Cantabrian cartoonist Álvaro Martínez Bueno. Lake’ (ECC) and Martin Simmonds, published the 3rd issue of his conspiracy novel ‘The Department of Truth (Norma).
caesar sebastian Autsaider Comics. €20
A great debut is César Sebastián’s film that radiates a sensitivity to 60 years ago, to the reality of a town, to remembering where we came from. A childhood still obligatory ritual and without further ado getting slapped, but also playing in the street and bathing in the river.