Historian, critic, essayist, writer and comic book scriptwriter, author of the famous “Trilogy of the Self”, Antonio Altarriba is a jack of all trades and one of the great writers of contemporary Spanish literature. He returns today with “Le ciel dans la tête”, a new breathtaking comic strip created by four hands with his accomplice, the designer Sergio Garcia Sanchez.
After ” The Spanish epic » with Kim, after her “ Trilogy of the Self ”, – Me, assassin, Me, crazy And Me, liar –, three corrosive albums published with the designer Keko on the kleptocratic and prevaricatory excesses of contemporary Spain, Antonio Altarriba makes us explore new territories, both imaginary and phantasmagorical, but also firmly anchored in history and in our times .
From the Congolese coltan mines to the mirages of the Spanish Eldorado, passing through the sumptuous and suffocating jungle, the arid desert where the convoys of migrants and the new slavers progress, without forgetting a savannah which takes on the appearance of a storybook setting, it t is a true odyssey full of dangers, monsters and wonders that Antonio Altarriba tells us, with the breathtaking drawings of his accomplice: the designer Sergio Garcia Sanchez.
A dark and captivating fable, a crossing of Africa from the height of a man, or rather a very young man since when the story begins, the hero is 12 years old.
“ The sky in the head », ofAntonio Altarriba And Sergio Garcia Sancheztranslated from Spanish by Alexandra Carrasco, hits bookstores on September 20, 2023.
Rebroadcast of the show from Wednesday September 6, 2023.