Contrapaso. Mayores, con reparo by Teresa Valero.

(Contrapaso, elders, with reservations) 

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎 Beautiful, gripping. This is the second part following Contrapaso, the children of others. Part 2 does not disappoint. We meet again Leon Lenoir, Emilio Sanz and Paloma Rios, the main Journalists/Investigators. The story takes place in Madrid in October 1956, once again delving into the bleak and oppressive atmosphere of Franco’s dictatorship. The protagonists investigate a string of murders linked to the Spanish film industry. Both the artwork and the graphic storytelling are exceptional. Valero vividly transports the reader to 1950s Spain, fully immersing us in the analogue, pre-digital world of newspapers and police work. There is so much worth mentioning, but one standout character is Charo, the teenage daughter of a forensic doctor, who skips school to assist her father in examining murder scenes. 😎 

Perfect comic. 

Recommend.

Contrapaso. Los hijos de los otros by Teresa Valero

French comic by Spanish author. 

Set in 1956, Madrid, Franco in power. A journalist investigates a series of murders but the last one is different. This comic has everything, beautiful art, amazing graphic narrative, gripping story, well documented, multilayered story and 3-dimensional characters. Oppression under a dictatorship, political wars, struggles of women at that time, lgbt+ issues... Contrapaso is the closest you can get to a perfect comic. 

I got the Spanish version by #normaeditorial but there is a digital English translation titled Contrapaso 1. The children of others by #eurocomics Go read it. Now!