Paco Roca

Apr 2, 2024 | fundacioromea.com | Paco Roca |Victor Amela |Víctor Amela |Rodrigo Terrassa |Gerard Vázquez

El enterrador de Paterna, un encuentro con el pasado conflictivo a través del teatro y la literatura. ¿Son el teatro y la literatura medios adecuados para difundir la memoria histórica, esos hechos del pasado que aún nos interpelan y que es necesario conocer para encaminar un presente y un futuro cada vez más convulso?

Mar 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca

Anna Härmälä. Nobrow, $20.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-913123-22-2Härmälä’s wit glows as warmly as her saturated pastel colors in her semi-autobiographical debut about tackling parenthood alone. Her partner dumps her while she’s pregnant, leaving her to shoulder the responsibilities of birthing and then raising their daughter, Alma.

Mar 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca

Alison McCreesh. Conundrum, $30 trade paper (390p) ISBN 978-1-772-62093-1Set in Canada’s sparsely populated north, these pleasantly meandering vignettes from McCreesh (Norths) document 10 years committed to adventure and freedom, before taking a turn for the elegiac. In 2008, when she’s in her early 20s, McCreesh heads from Quebec to Dawson City, a small Gold Rush town in the Yukon.

Mar 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca

James Loewen and Nate Powell. New Press, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62097-703-3“History is the only field in which the MORE courses students take, the STUPIDER they become,” according to this striking graphic adaptation by cartoonist Powell (the March series) of sociologist Loewen’s groundbreaking 1995 study, which challenged the prevailing version of American history taught in public schools.

Mar 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca |Marjane Satrapi

Eddie Ahn. Ten Speed, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-984-86249-5Ahn debuts with a warmhearted homage to community work that also captures the complex pressures on children of immigrants. In 2005, Eddie is a young adult working with AmeriCorps for an after-school program in Oakland, Calif. There, he discovers the small joys of helping underserved communities. However, his Korean immigrant parents, who own a liquor store, expect upward financial mobility.