Gala Rocabert Navarro and Anna-Lina Mattar · Salamandra Graphic · 2021
How a peace agreement signed by men in ties who sit at distant negotiation tables develops on the ground, that's what it explains to us in the navel, the latest work that won the Fnac-Salamandra Graphic award, always granted with wisdom (he won it We are all fine by Ana Penyas, that would be the National Comic Award 2018). Anna-Lina Mattar dibuja en bitono y con la línea azul como protagonista las experiencias de Gala Rocabert en un campamento por la paz en Pondores, La Guajira (Colombia), raised following negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC (acronyms that do not appear in the entire book), the oldest guerrilla in Latin America. Former guerrillas tell us what motivated them to join the guerrilla, What was his wandering life like in the jungle, rifle on his shoulder?, their distrust of the peace process, the concerns that the fact of reuniting with their family awakens in them and the abyss they feel they are looking into when faced with the idea of becoming civilians. The story of a peace process told on the ground with testimonies from its protagonists, that's good journalism, whether it is called a chronicle or a graphic novel. S.M.
