I wanted to explain what it had been like to endure the violence that the ETA sympathizers justified and reflect on the issue of evil and gratuitous violence, to look in the mirror and see if there is something murderous in all of us, if some murders can explain others. I had just retired after 38 years as a professor at the Universidad del País Vasco (University of the Basque Country), a very complicated job due to the presence of ETA sympathizers that forced many of my colleagues to leave.
No, the initial idea was to just make a comic, Yo, asesino. 'Yo, mentiroso' by Antonio Altarriba: “Politics has become a duel between liars”ĭid you plan to make a trilogy from the get-go? Yo, mentiroso (Norma, 2020) completes this Trilogía del Yo with a story that delves into the sewers of power and Spanish politics.
But there is another Antonio Altarriba: the observer who radiographs the moral miseries of society through black fictions full of formal daring such as Yo, Asesino and Yo, loco, in collaboration with the cartoonist Keko.
BarcelonaMany readers know the screenwriter Antonio Altarriba (Zaragoza, 1952) thanks to his works with Kim on family memory, El ala rota and El arte de volar, National Comic Award in 2010.
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