Paco Roca

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Paco Roca at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

Francisco José Martínez Roca, called Paco Roca (* 1969 in Valencia ), is a Spanish comic book author .

Life and career

Roca was reading from a young comics such as Asterix and Obelix , Lieutenant Blueberry and Tintin . In addition to these comic classics, he was also influenced by the styles of comic book authors like Richard Corben , Carlos Giménez and Frank Miller . He later studied art and then initially earned his living in an advertising agency.

He belongs to a new generation of comic artists who use the graphic novel to address social issues. It is not only about historical issues such as the dictatorship and the civil war in Spain , but also current social issues. In 2007 he published the graphic novel Arrugas , which deals with dementia . For this book he received the Spanish State Prize Premio Nacional del Cómic in 2008 . For the subsequent film adaptation under the name Wrinkles he received two Goya Awards in 2012 .

On October 11, 2013, it was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair under the German title Kopf in den Wolken in a conversation with the Tagesspiegel editor Lars von Törne and André Höchemer, who provided the German translation. In addition to this book, he presented the book Der Winter deszeichners, which was published on the German market in 2012 . Both are published by Reprodukt Verlag .

In his graphic novel Los surcos del azar (German: Die Heimatlosen , Reprodukt 2015) Roca shows a Spanish republican freedom fighter in the middle of World War II - and as an old man who looks back on that past. At the International Comics Festival in Rome there was the Gran Premio Romics in 2014 .

Works

  • El Señor Osiris , Historia corta, Ganadería Trashumante 1999
  • El juego lúgubre , comic book. Brut (La Cúpula) 2001
  • Les voyages d'Alexandre Icare: Les fils de l'Alhambra , album, SAF 2003
  • El Faro , album, Astiberri 2004
  • Arrugas (Rides), Graphic Novel, Delcourt 2007
    • Head in the Clouds , translated from Spanish by André Höchemer, Graphic Novel, Reprodukt 2013
  • Las calles de arena (Les rues de sable), Graphic Novel, Delcourt 2009
  • Emotional World Tour , Graphic Novel, Astiberri 2009
  • L'Ange de la retirada , Graphic Novel, 6 Pieds Sous Terre, St-Jean de Védas 2009
  • El invierno del dibujante , Graphic Novel, Astiberri 2010
    • The draftsman's winter , translated from Spanish by André Höchemer, Graphic Novel, Reprodukt 2012
  • Los surcos del azar , Graphic Novel, Astiberri 2013
    • The homeless , from the Spanish by André Höchemer, graphic novel, reprodukt 2015
  • El tesoro del cisne negro , Graphic Novel, Astiberri 2018
    • Black Swann's Treasure , translated from Spanish by André Höchemer, Graphic Novel, Reprodukt 2019, ISBN 978-3-95640-194-7 .

Prizes and awards

  • 2008: Spanish State Prize Premio Nacional del Cómic for Arrugas
  • 2012: Goya Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • 2012: Goya Awards for Best Animated Film
  • 2014: Gran Premio Romics of the International Comics Festival in Rome for his graphic novel I solchi del destino (German: The homeless )

Web links

Commons : Paco Roca  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b bilderundworte.de , accessed on October 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ diariosigloxxi.com , accessed October 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Wrinkles teaser , accessed October 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ book-fair.com , accessed on October 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ reprodukt.com , accessed October 25, 2013
  6. ^ Award-winning graphic novel - The Rediscovery of a Freedom Fighter , review by Frank Meyer on Deutschlandradio Kultur on June 6, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015
  7. ↑ a b c spainisculture.com , accessed October 25, 2013
  8. ↑ Paco Roca, l'autore di Rughe vince il Gran premio Romics 2014 grazie a I solchi del destino , accessed June 8, 2015 (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Roca, Paco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roca, Francisco José Martínez (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia