Roca won the National Comic

Paco Roca poses with his original drawings. / J. ALEMANYPaco Roca (Valencia, 1969) sounded in the pools as one of the favorites to lift the Premio Nacional Comic this year. An award needs to put in place a discipline that is living one of its best moments, with new readers who are approaching the half thanks to the award-winning works such as' Best Sellers', an emotional connection and a portrait of senile degeneration in the already devastated Hall of Barcelona. The trophies have done nothing but confirm the excellent reception of an album that was born in France of the hands of the publisher Delcourt. In our borders, ably Astiberri bet for a compelling comic book, which uses a subtle sense of humor and exploiting the enormous potential of the medium to deliver poetic images that speak of a complicated issue, Alzheimer's disease, cashless cheap. "I worry about old age," explained the author COURIER few months ago. "My parents are older, and every time I talk to them give me a detailed medical report on how they are, what medications must take ingest and what to counteract the side effects of the first." The National Comic Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 20,000 euros, was inaugurated last year by Max, whose great talent was a veneer of prestige to an award highly anticipated by fans at the ninth art. Have proven this year finalists' Estraperlo and tram, by Alfons Lopez, and "Mary and I ', and Maria de Miguel Gallardo. In the end, the jury has tilted the balance and has opted for a proposal capable of reaching any kind of audience that is moved into a slippery slope without falling. Inspired him to author the father of one of his best friends, suffering from Alzheimer's. 'It seemed a very cultured and intelligent person. I always saw with its huge library and listening to music. It seemed to me an example of what I would like to be his arrival retirement age. That is why it was a blow to see the degeneration that he was suffering from the disease. I think the worst imaginable. Devour our memories, everything lived, sensations, feelings ...». In the Hall of Getxo Far from being carried away by the topic to addressing 'Wrinkle', Roca was documented in depth on the subject. He visited nursing homes for months and talked to doctors, nurses and the elderly. Virtually everything that appears in comic books are drawn from real anecdotes such talks. The story that starts with the entry of an elderly man in a residence, away from dramón tear, something has been chosen as material support for associations that combat disease. 'The grim game', 'Sons of the Alhambra' and 'The Lighthouse' are other works of this cartoonist Valencian, which next week will be signing copies of his work at the Comic Strip Hall of Getxo.