The Cuckoo’s Labyrinth
Maximum
The Dome2025. 164 pages. 24 euros
Originally conceived as a labyrinthine installation in which cartoons guided the visitor, it seemed impossible to translate that proposal onto paper, but Max demonstrates that his long career was born from continuous experimentation with the language of comics. It translates three-dimensionality into a classic “follow the adventure” where the action becomes pure slapstickin the dynamism and movement that take Coll’s legacy to bring it to the present, but without ever giving up a reflection that runs parallel and always transcends.
Here where I am
María Castro Hernández and Tyto Alba
Astiberri2025. 120 pages. 18 euros
Recovery of the story of a survivor of the Quinta del biberón in the battle of the Ebro, which successfully combines the voice of the protagonist with the current perspective of a teenager. Castro and Alba create a powerful anti-war speech that does not fall into the trap of equidistance, thanks to a first-person story that realistically narrates the infinite absurdity of that horror that becomes a daily experience, but read from the present of a person who today is the same age as the one who resignedly accepted a death that seemed inevitable.
My friend Kim Jong-un
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Translation by María Rosario Albarracín. Tank graphics2025. 288 pages. 23.65 euros
In Catalan: El meu amic Kim Jong-un. Translation by Yasmine Bonjoch. Tank graphics2025.
The Korean author of reputable works such as Grass OR The wait In his latest graphic novel, he embarks on the thorny task of drawing the biography of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator. A complex task in that story which has been completely rewritten to praise or demonize a figure who becomes more of a character than a human being, which allows the artist to create in parallel a suggestive reflection on the evolution of his country and of a society grown in constant confrontation and fear of war, both from internal reality and from world politics.
Bald
Tereza Drahoňovská and Štěpánka Jislová
Translation by Katerina Valentova. Graphic swath2025. 128 pages. 7.90pm. Also in Catalan
Social stereotypes have defined hair as an instrument of control over women, from punishment to the imposition of an aesthetic norm, which causes alopecia accepted in men as a symbol of masculinity to become an insurmountable stigma for women. Starting from the screenwriter’s personal experience, Calva explores the path of accepting the disease not as resignation, but as a reclamation of an identity that cannot be dictated by exclusive norms, playing with the graphic symbolism of the absence of hair as a narrative key to a highly evocative work.
Brunnhilde in the Silver
Rigol Genes
Apa Apa cartoon2025. 160 pages. 22.90 euros
Brunilda is pure theatre, a surreal reflection that goes from Godot to Pirandello, which breaks the figure of the demiurge so that the spectator can decide on a proposal that is as surprising as it is suggestive. Rigol begins by playing with everyday absurdity which, transferred onto the stage and backstage of the theatre, forces us to consider fictions as multifaceted forms of a reality that can never be represented in its entirety, which ends up following the paths of a script that seems predetermined in our existence but which, perhaps, can be rewritten by a skilled spectator.
