Greater · Autsaider Comics · 2020
We are not talking about something new, but from a work published in the last quarter of 2020 that we had overlooked until last month when it was awarded the National Comic Award, deservedly and surprisingly, for its theme, for his tone, and because it is published by a small publisher on the margins (three of the last four national awards have gone to the great Astiberri). we said, surprise because Spring for Madrid does not leave a puppet with a head, Bigger The venom of this country bathed in gold leaf is thrown in our faces, creating a sour and very plausible portrait of the characters who crawl through the Spanish upper echelons of power.. At the end of the book he warns: “All the people, companies and events that appear in this book are invented”. Yes! The character of Lobo Madrid is the son-in-law of a business gyrfalcon, friend of the king, and “compi yogi” of the queen. Does it sound familiar to you? Magius's drawing is very expressive, the faces and gestures of López Madrid, sorry, Wolf Madrid, responding in the investigation commission are masterful. The one with the posh teenagers who surround Little Nicolás, sons of powerful men, It is absolutely plausible, and that's all we need to enter a grotesque story that draws directly from reality. Through the golden pages of Spring for Madrid the richest characters swarm, corrupt and influential in the country, businessmen like Villar Mir or Florentino Pérez; politicians like Esperanza Aguirre, Francisco Granados, Ignacio Gonzalez; “journalists” like Eduardo Inda and Antonio García Ferreras, the president of the Madrid employers' association Arturo Fernández, the Royal House, Commissioner Villarejo… hunting, party, extorting, buying with cards black, doing and undoing as you please, filtering, putting and removing at convenience. Magius' message is very clear, even graphic: “They piss on us and say it's raining”. S.M.
