Mañá mércores preséntase a banda deseñada que realicei apra a Comisión pola Recuperación da Memoria Histórica, titulada "Compañeiros". O acto terá lugar na Casa Museo Casares Quiroga, na Coruña, ás 10:30h. Estará no acto Manuel Rivas, que fará a presentación. Aquí van uns fragmentos da obra, que, aínda que breve (15 páxinas), relata uns acontecementos terribles e moi intensos... de aí a curta extensión. Aínda que a obra foi rematada hai tempo xa, relendo agora as páxinas, e pensando que mañá se presentará, quizais, ante familiares das vítimas que debuxei, volvo a sentir verdadeiro pesar e opresión. Quizais porque desta volta non era un traballo máis de ficción. Non se trataba dunha historia lonxana, distante, senón que se falaba de persoas reais que sufriron o indicible simplemente para poder desfrutar dun pouco de aire limpo. Espero que a obra sirva de homenaxe a esas persoas, e que, cando menos, lles restitúa parte da dignidade merecida e esquecida.

Here are some samples of the short story I will present tomorrow. It's going to take place at Casa Museo Casares Quiroga, A Coruña, at 10:30h, and Manuel Rivas will be there to give it his blessing. Although it's only 15 pages long, it relates the terrifying story of near a hundred people who tried to escape from Franco's regime, back in 1937. But they couldn't. And they were killed and tortured. Although the work was done some time ago, I now recall it, and re-reading the pages I can feel the opression again. Yes, real characters, real people, real people's parents and grandparents. And I had to draw them. I honestly hope my traces will give them back the dignity they lost once and again.












At last!!! Finishing a comic book, however short it is, is exhausting!! it implies taking so many decisions (script, setting up the page, narrative resources, timing, ...). But it is over. The title is Su título es "COMPAÑEIROS: Homenaxe ás vítimas do Portiño" (an homage to O Portiño vistims). It will be released next weekend, but not in spain, but in Port (14os Encontros Luso-galaico-franceses do Livro Infantil e Juvenil), both the magazines and an ehibition of all the pages.
Then, in march, it will be presented in A Coruña, on the anniversary of O Portiño killing. Here are some samples.






























