Paracuellos

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Written and Illustrated by Carlos Giménez

WINNER OF THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD AND THE HERITAGE AWARD AT THE ANGOULÊME FESTIVAL

In the late 1930s when Spanish fascists led by Franco, and aided by Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew the elected government, almost 200,000 men and women fell in battle, were executed, or died in prison. Their orphaned children—and others ripped from the homes of the defeated—were shuttled from Church-run “home” to “home” and fed a steady diet of torture and disinformation by a totalitarian state bent on making them “productive” citizens. Carlos Giménez was one of those children. In 1975, after Franco’s death, Carlos began to tell his story. Breaking the code of silence proved to be a milestone, both for the comics medium and for a country coming to terms with its past. Illustrated essays by Antonio Martin, the foremost historian of Spanish comics, and Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, place the comics in historical perspective.

Translated by Sonya Jones / Foreword by Will Eisner / Essays by Antonio Martin and Carmen Moreno-Nuño / 8.5″ x 11″ / TPB / B&W / 136 pp / ISBN 978-1-63140-468-9