This heartfelt graphic biography is a tribute to the artist’s grandmothers and a generation of women who quietly soldiered through over forty years of Fascist rule in Spain. Artist Ana Penyas’s grandmothers Maruja and Herminia live alone in their respective Spanish towns, largely neglected by their children and relatives, who never visit. But when Ana comes to see them, she realizes that these women, whose day-to-day existences now seem mundane, experienced firsthand an incredibly tumultuous and fascinating period of Spanish history. 
In We’re All Just Fine, Penyas weaves the memories of her grandmothers to craft a narrative quilt that pieces together what it was like for women to assimilate to Spain’s dramatic political and cultural shifts in the late 1970s and ’80s. The sudden transition from the authoritarian, repressive Franco regime to lively and liberating democracy was at once incredibly freeing but also destabilizing for women used to their traditional roles as dutiful housewives. Through this intimate lens into her grandmothers’ daily struggle ― of their silence, the small acts of rebellion, and great gestures of resilience ― Penyas gives voice to an entire generation of “invisible'' women whose stories have rarely been told. Combining collage and rough-hewn pencil drawings, and mixing past and present, Penyas offers a decidedly feminist tribute to the forgotten lives and legacies of her grandmothers. Full-color illustrations throughout

We're All Just Fine

Biographies & Memoirs

Penyas, Ana

Community & Culture

Fantagraphics Books

Estamos todas bien, Premio Fnac- Salamandra Graphic de Novela Grafica 2017, es un homenaje de la autora a sus dos abuelas, Maruja y Herminia. A traves de su dia a dia y de sus recuerdos, conoceremos luces y sombras de las protagonistas y el contexto nada favorable en el que, con ferrea determinacion, forjaron sus vidas, desde el inicio de la dictadura franquista hasta la actualidad. / We are All Well, Fnac-Salamandra Graphic Novel Award 2017, is a tribute of the author to her two grandmothers, Maruja and Herminia. Through their day-to-day and their memories, we will know the lights and shadows of the protagonists and the unfavorable context in which, with rough determination, they forged their lives, from the beginning of the Franco dictatorship to the present day.

Estamos todas bien / We are All Well (Spanish Edition)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Salamandra Graphic

Turismo de masas, especulación urbanística y drama humano. La nueva propuesta de la autora de Estamos todas bien, una de las novelas gráficas más impactantes de los últimos años. 
En Todo bajo el sol, la autora nos sitúa en la costa levantina a principios de los años sesenta para contarnos la historia de una familia que sufre las devastadoras consecuencias del turismo de masas, motor principal del desarrollismo económico en tiempos de Franco. A lo largo de las décadas, vemos cómo el auge del neoliberalismo trunca las esperanzas y los proyectos de los miembros de esta familia, cuyo testimonio nos habla de una época en que los paisajes y su riqueza natural se transformaron para siempre. Sin embargo, hay un lugar que resiste: entre el casco antiguo de las ciudades y los pueblos costeros -convertidos en ciudades de vacaciones-, se extiende la huerta, baluarte de un estilo de vida amenazado por el avance implacable del ladrillo

Todo bajo el sol / All Under the Sun (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

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