Paracuellos
Subtitle: Children of the Defeated in Franco's Fascist Spain
By: by Carlos Gimenez; preface by Will Eisner; edited and designed by Dean Mullaney; translation, Sonya Jones; cover coloring and hand-lettering, William Stout.
Publisher: IDW Publishing; EuroComics
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Diego, California
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781631404689
Description: In the late 1930s when Spanish fascists led by Francisco Franco, and aided by Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew the democratically elected government, almost 200000 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 State and 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.

Eurocomics is proud to present this log-awaited English translation of a comics masterpiece. Placing the comics in historical perspective are illustrated essays by Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies ant the University of Kentucky, and Antonio Martin, the foremost historian of Spanish comics.