In Lamia, Laia works for the most popular post-war radio programme in Barcelona, ‘Elena Bosch’s Surgery’, answering letters about themes that are too risqué for the rigid conservative values of the broadcaster.
She is pregnant with her first child and waiting for her husband to return. But, as the title, which refers to a mythological monster who devoured the children of other mothers out of grief over having her own children stolen by Hera, suggests, Laia is not all that she seems.
Pulido uses all the tricks of the noir genre (surprise twists and mystery) to portray a Barcelona in the early 40s where prevailing moral strictures are enforced upon women with particular violence.”
Editorial Astiberri was founded in 2001 and is speciaized in graphic stories for adults.
