Antonio Altarriba and Keko · Norma · 2020
The screenwriter Antonio Altarriba And the cartoonist Keko has done it again, Pry a thriller in comic format that combines entertainment and fierce criticism, This time to the political ponzoña that Spain has under the nails. Yo, liar It is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Yo, killer, and continued with Yo, loco, The three drawn in dark black and white with a touch of color, Red in a story about artistic murders, yellow in the centered in the pharmaceutical industry, And in this comic dedicated to lies, verde, like him chroma on which any reality can be projected in a credible way. All are interconnected in form and background, But they can be read independently. In text boxes, Altarriba explains the mechanisms of lies while the action of the vignettes condenses the low funds of Spanish politics using "code" names as inspector Corralejo, Federico Grillo, Eduardo Guinda Pedro Sanchis. In a panoramic over the state sewers, the collusion of the media and justice with power, the creation of smoke curtains to cover shame, The mafia modes of the matches or the weaves in the Bernabeu box. The fictions that deal with homeland policy are scarce in Spain -Crematorium, The kingdom, And little else—, that they have managed to cultivate with a mastery in Denmark (The castle), France (Black baron) or United States (House of cards), that's what altarriba is here, To draw a bleak picture about the empty political exercise of action, pure handling of a story that cannot be verified and in which, therefore, anything fits. AU
