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This biographical account of the Galician-Argentine painter and mover Luis Seoane, tells the first part of his life until his exile with the Civil War, created in the style of a comic strip.
Subjugated lives. Lives without justice. Can they be mended? Xoxé Avellanada has no choice. Elena Mérquez's life is conditional. The day she returns as an inspector, Elena Márquez is a powerless witness to the suicide of an old man in need of her help. That same morning, Xoxé Avellanada, a retired policeman from Lugo, turns to her with a voice recording and a threat to his life.
Gianni Rodari, Tomi Ungerer, Astrid Lindgren, Juan Farias, Christine Nöstlinger, Roald Dahl and Gloria Fuertes are the characters in seven tales, a magical number for many essential figures in the history of children's literature. This narrative homage is created from the that the characters themselves have nurtured in their work: fantasy and creativity.
Milo, a naughty and adventurous little wolf, grows up thinking that one day he will suddenly become a ferocious wolf. When he discovers that this will not happen by magic and that he must train all day, like the other wolves in the pack, Milo asks himself: will I have to stop being myself in order to be fierce?
A hustler who makes a living selling billiard paraphernalia in Mexico City suddenly discovers that his lover – a teenaged girl who is still at high school – has been kidnapped. Obsessed with recovering the young woman, he throws himself into his search for her through the sewers of people trafficking and exploitation of women in Mexico.
Legend has it that humans originally possessed four legs, four arms, two faces and a single head, and that the female and male sex coexisted in them; but Zeus, threatened by the strength of these beings, cast a lightning bolt at them, so dividing them in two and condemning them to live without their half and to wander in search of it to be complete.
Why does everyone run away as soon as they see me? A hilarious picture book reflecting on habits and customs by seeing what happens when animals and humans swap roles.
Pepe and Valentina are now big brother and sister and they both have the same problem: their baby sister. This unbearable creature screams, cries and has invaded their room! One night, while everyone else is sleeping, Pepe hears a voice coming from his little sister's crib. But she hasn't learned to talk yet - so who could it be?