Paracuellos

Paracuellos is an autobiographical series of Cartoon in six volumes.

• Scenario and Dessin: Carlos Giménez

Synopsis

The series shows the daily newspaper of children in a Orphelin In the Spain according to the civil war.

The author, who passed his childhood (six years to fourteen years) in a reception center of the institution phalangist " Auxilio social" (social security), made use of its memories to testify to the brimades and the maltreatment which the children underwent, subjected to an education based on the religion and the instruction Militaire.

Characters

• Pablito : the character who represents the child author, making the project already become Dessinateur.
• Antonio: the large-brother, who tries to protect his junior but appears often impotent.

Publication

1. Paracuellos (1977); translated into French by Gotlib in 1980 (Audie)
2. Paracuellos 2 (1982); translated into French in 1981 (Audie)
3. Paracuellos 3 (1999)
4. Paracuellos 4 (2001)
5. Paracuellos 5 (2002) with a foreword of Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
6. Paracuellos 6 (2003)

Rewards

• Price of the best album to the Festival of Angouleme 1981.
• Price of best work and the best scenario for Paracuellos 3 with the " Salón del Cómic" of Barcelona in 1999.

External bonds

• '' Paracuellos '' on the official site of Carlos Giménez
• '' Paracuellos '' in El Guía LED cómic

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