We're All Just Fine by Ana Penyas
This heartfelt graphic biography is a tribute to the artist's grandmothers and a generation of women who quietly soldiered through over forty years of Fascist rule in Spain.Artist Ana Penyas's grandmothers Maruja and Herminia live alone in their respective Spanish towns, largely neglected by their children and relatives, who never visit. But when Ana comes to see them, she realizes that these women, whose day-to-day existences now seem mundane, experienced firsthand an incredibly tumultuous and fascinating period of Spanish history.
In We're All Just Fine, Penyas weaves the memories of her grandmothers to craft a narrative quilt that pieces together what it was like for women to assimilate to Spain's dramatic political and cultural shifts in the late 1970s and '80s. The sudden transition from the authoritarian, repressive Franco regime to lively and liberating democracy was at once incredibly freeing but also destabilizing for women used to their traditional roles as dutiful housewives. Through this intimate lens into her grandmothers' daily struggle -- of their silence, the small acts of rebellion, and great gestures of resilience -- Penyas gives voice to an entire generation of "invisible'' women whose stories have rarely been told. Combining collage and rough-hewn pencil drawings, and mixing past and present, Penyas offers a decidedly feminist tribute to the forgotten lives and legacies of her grandmothers.
Ana Penyas (Valencia) earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design and a master's degree in fine arts from the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. She was chosen for an artistic residency in De Licerias (Porto, 2015), and she has also participated in the Madrid Ilustrsima Illustration Festival and the Valencia Tenderete Autoedición Festival on several occasions with various autoedición projects. In the series «Viaje al interior», he received a special mention in the VI Iberoamérica Ilustra catalog, and he won the following edition with «Buscando un sitio». Individual exhibitions were held at Estudio 64 (Valencia, 2016) and O! She has worked with the editorial Mil razones, Libros del K.O., the cultural website MipetitMadrid, elHype, and the revista Bostezo, as well as being an illustrator for the revista Pikara Magazine.
Now, he's working on two illustrated books for the new Cocoyoc publishing house. He's also worked on the valenciano fanzine Arrs negre, the sonográfic project Hits With Tits, the platform CIES NO, and the project Refugio Ilustrado.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781683965800 |
| ISBN 10 | 1683965809 |
| Title | We're All Just Fine |
| Author | Ana Penyas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Year published | 2023-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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