Paco Roca

Francisco Martínez Roca, called Paco Roca (born 1969 in Valencia ) is a Spanish comic book writer.

Life and career

Roca was reading from a young comics such as Asterix and Obelix, Lieutenant Blueberry and Tintin. In addition to these comics have influenced him over the years, Richard Corben, Carlos Gimenez and Frank Miller. Later he studied art and then began his career in advertising.

He belongs to a new generation of cartoonists who use the graphic novel to draw attention to social issues. It 's not just about historical topics such as the dictatorship and the civil war in Spain, but also to current social issues. In 2007 he published a comic that deals with Alzheimer 's disease. For this book, he received the 2008 National Comic Award. For the subsequent film adaptation under the name Wrinkles, he received two 2012 Goya Awards. On October 11, 2013, was presented in the clouds in an interview with the Tagesspiegel editor Lars von Törne and André Höchemer who has supplied the German translation, on the Frankfurt Book Fair under the German title head. In addition to this book he also already published in 2012 on the German market book before The winter of signatory. Both are published in Reprodukt Verlag.

Prizes and awards

• 2008: National Comic Award for Arrugas
• 2012: Goya Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay
• 2012: Goya Awards for Best Animated film

Swell

• Author
• Cartoonist
• Spaniard
• Born in 1969
• Man