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The reading of "Winter of the artist" to the undersigned has been a pleasant and novel experience, a breath of fresh air in my preferences as seasoned comic book reader makes me believe that this wonderful (and sometimes disappointing) medium still is possible to find quality stories ... Stories that have not necessarily surprised by the energy of their tr scratches, the vibrant color of its pages or the superhuman ability of their players, but simply for the fact that stories featuring just humanity, a story where the heroes have been (and are) normal people and therefore, real ... mundane jobs that do not need to save the world super-villains, but is entrusted to a much more earthly mission: to survive.

"Winter of the artist" is the story of the publishing house Bruguera and their artists, some laborers of artwork that simply wanted to improve their living conditions and fight for what was rightfully theirs: their creations. In return for wages that were anything special, sold and gave up their original irrevocably to the benefit of a patron whose coffers were fed with successive editions of the same, although the authors were paid only once . In a country devoid of rights and freedoms, five authors (Escobar, Giner, Peñarroya Cifré and Conti) decided in the late fifties stand against Bruguera leaving the fold of this to create your own journal, which they called "Man Alive." The adventure was short-lived independence. It was not easy to fight with the vast infrastructure of Bruguera, under which they were subjected publishers and distributors. David defeated Goliath and eventually the artists had to return to publishing giant and its iniquitous conditions.

These are therefore the events recounted Paco Roca in the pages of his album, channeling for this highly accurate approximation of what these actors lived so easily recognizable to those who love comics or literature. "Winter of the artist" is a choral work, but it is undeniable role to play as well as the artists mentioned, reference names in the history of editorial and here turned into cartoon characters like Victor Mora, Rafael González, Francisco González Vázquez Ledesma or the same, a unique artist whose licentious life might well be compared to the surreal experience of his famous creations. Along with this unique artist, are specially designated times Mora dedicated to this when speaking of leaving his literary work to focus on tasks typical of engr Anajo editorial, or the scene in which he speaks of Captain Thunder and Sigrid with what will be his future wife, Harmony Rodriguez, also used Bruguera. Similarly, the brief are particularly emotive passages starring Francisco González Ledesma, excellent writer and journalist and a better person, who under his seemingly implacable role of the publisher's lawyer, lay an undeniable frustration at having to constantly confront those who liked and admired driven by a job that ate away the guts. His uncle, Rafael Gonzalez, director of publications Bruguera, is also a clear example of intimate confrontation between duty and idealism, a journalist victimized by the dictatorship that was determined to his family did not pass or fall victim hardship for their own ideas, puts work above all else, even to that family, sacrificing even their narrative qualities in favor of administrative security grants Bruguera, but will continue with its intimate passion facet of the writer. It was he who convinced precisely Victor Mora of his storytelling ability to the detriment of the artist and that, under counted in this album, you are advised to follow that path. Attached to his red pencil, the dreaded correction tool of the original cartoonists, Rafael González ESGR IMIA dour character and seemingly unattainable bound by circumstances and his position, hiding humanity itself buried under tons of responsibility.

"Winter of the artist" is not a corridor. Roca divides history into chapters that jump back and forth in time, almost exclusively focused on the decline of a particular year. Perhaps because the story is precisely in the winter period in the late fifties, the author uses throughout the album muted colors and sad, in line with the station (and therefore perhaps the bittersweet feelings of the protagonists) whose name it bears the title. Rock does not show a remarkable style especially for this work, but very functional and practical, suitable for the story it tells a human story with real actors of flesh and bone, and therefore the graphics are perfectly suited to it, with its apparent simplicity, for dressing an important piece in the life of ordinary people who wanted to break the established schemes to simply live better, demanding and fighting for what was theirs: their ideas ... And slogan said a few years ago, "If they take the ideas ... What's left?"