The creative explosion of the graphic novel conquers spaces previously closed to the comic. Mallorcan bookseller Leonardo Sainz’s daughter collects comics of Tintin. When the bookseller edited a magazine, We are the dead, his daughter Ana succumbed to an aesthetic that she did not understand: the underground.

Then there came adolescence and manga; And later Fine Arts and graphic discoveries like Felipe Almendros. Months after the death of the Mallorcan bookseller, his daughter Ana took refuge in Germany to learn engraving techniques. On her return she wrote and drew a story, partially autobiographical, that started at the point where she had lost her father. She named it Chucrut. With an orange marker and black ink pen, she braided a story that exorcised the duel and took advantage of a train (the international graphic novel award Fnac-Salamandra Graphic, which won in 2015).

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