La llegada de los dioses

A magnificent graphic novel in which Alfonso Casas parks the irony and offers us all his tenderness. Often the past leaves loose ends, issues to solve, questions that pursue our future. This is what happens to the protagonist of this book, Dani. Just before getting married, under the pretext of a photographic project about the passage of time, he travels to the coastal town where he used to spend his summer during his childhood. A place that he has not stepped on for twenty years and that, as the story progresses, reveals the importance he acquired in his life, because there he discovered,...

Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family is great fun for the youngest children - both hablantes and English speakers - and can lend itself to a plethora of art projects during celebrations of El Dia de los Muertos, and any other time as well. Highly recommended. -De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children

El enfrentamiento de Custodio con la testaruda realidad convierte cualquier situación vivida en algo disparatado. Custodio, roñica, delgaducho y calvo, trabaja como farmacéutico en Bembibre, un hermoso pueblecito de la comarca de El Bierzo. Allí se dedica a elaborar brebajes y ungüentos para sus parroquianos cuando no está luchando contra el despilfarro de su familia numerosa. Tan pronto lo veremos produciendo remedios "fabulosos y muy inocuos" como racionando la luz y el papel higiénico a su mujer y a sus siete fieras. El mundo de Custodio es el mundo de un Quijote científico de...

It is Pepe’s first day of school in England, and he is a bit nervous, even though he will be going to the same one as Tom and Lia. His morning brings the first surprise of the day when Pepe discovers that he needs to wear a uniform. He then feels slightly overwhelmed in Ms. Pinkerton’s class when he finds that he understands some assignments but not others. The most interesting surprise of all, though, is when his science teacher brings out his pet hamster and it escapes--with all of the kids hot on its heels. Es el primer día de escuela en Inglaterra para Pepe, y está un poco nervioso, ...