The photographer of Mauthausen
By: writer, Salva Rubio ; artist, Pedro J. Colombo ; colorist, Aintzane Landa
Contributors: Colombo, Pedro, artist; Landa, Aintzane, 1980- colourist; Madden, Matt, translator
Publisher: Dead Reckoning
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Annapolis, Maryland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781682476277
Subjects: Comic books, strips; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; Photography; Atrocities; Photographers; Prisoners of war; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Work titles: Photographe de Mauthausen
Description: "This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of these perverse photos--but only at the risk of his own life, that of a young Spanish boy he has sworn to protect, and, indeed, that of every prisoner in the camp"--