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In the 80s, while the 'Movida madrileña' boom was taking place, in a suburb of Paris a young Spanish emigrant wrote and drew about the daily life of one of those small towns in what today is called emptied Spain. His name is Tiburcio de la Key, 'Tito', a distinguished comics author in France which, 40 years later, has begun to be better known in its country of origin.
Tito is a native of Valdeverdeja (Toledo), where he has returned every summer and has maintained his family ties and cultivated his roots. In the early 1960s, his parents, who worked as potters in the town, emigrated to France when he was only 6 years old. There he Phone Number Data studied graphic art, worked in advertising and began publishing comics. One of his most notable series is & # 39; Soledad & # 39 ;, a title that gives its name to a fictional town in Castile but which is inspired by his hometown. In it, stories take place that also delve into the open wounds left by the Civil War.
The six volumes of this comic remained unpublished in Spain until three years ago, when Cascaborra Ediciones decided to translate them into Spanish. Precisely, the publisher has recently opened a bookstore in the Historic Center of Toledo, where Tito has presented the last published volume of the collection in Spanish - 'The other sister'-. I am savoring with a lot of joy all the beautiful things that are happening to me now,", Tito points out in an interview with Toledodiario.es, in which he indicates that one of the reasons why he decided to draw this comic was the tiredness of hearing in France that Spain was perceived as a country marked only by "bulls, paella and flamenco". "I wanted to show that Spain was something else. "Then I enriched it," he adds.
Historical memory and emptied Spain
In this collection, he tells "anecdotes, family memories, simple or fictional stories, in which he talks more about rural people than about towns from people who used to be protagonists in comics. And, Tito explains, his comics show memories "of life, of sacrifice, of women with wrinkles who are wonderful and beautiful," and of all the conversations and relationships that he "fed on every time he came to town." ”, as well as its landscapes.
The first three albums include graphic accounts of small stories that “occur calmly but hiding secrets that covered open wounds,” as described by comics expert Álvaro Pons<a>. In the fourth, -The wounded memory- “he finally dared to look for the origin of the pain by telling the story of his grandfather Tiburcio, narrating the horror of a war that came to his small town in Toledo,” indicates the also El País columnist. .
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