Paracuellos

In the late 1930's, Spanish Facists, led by Francisco Franco, and aided by Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew the democratically elected government of Spain. Almost 200,000 men and women fell in battle, were executed, or died in prison. Their orphaned children were ripped from their homes and shuttled from place to place, tortured, and fed a steady diet of misinformation. The author of this graphic memoir, Carlos, Gimenez, was one of those children. In 1975, after Franco's death, Carlos began to tell his story in comic book form.