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Paco Roca

Francisco Martínez Roca aka Paco Roca is a Spanish strip cartoonist with experience in graphic novels and advertisement illustrations.

Life and career
Roca read comics since childhood, such as Asterix and Obelix, Lieutenant Blueberry and Tintin. In addition to these comic classics, the style of comic authors such as Richard Corben, Carlos Giménez and Frank Miller also influenced him. Later he studied art and then earned his livelihood in an advertising agency. == Selected works ==
Selected works
• 2000- El juego lúgubre (La Cúpula) • 2004- El Faro (Astiberri) • English: The Lighthouse (NBM Publishing, 2017) • 2005- La casa (Astiberri) • English: The House (translated by Andrea Rosenberg, Fantagraphics, 2019) • 2007- Arrugas, (Astiberri) • English: Wrinkles (Knockabout Comics, 2008) • 2011- El Invierno del Dibujante, (Astiberri) • English: The Winter of the Cartoonist (translated by Andrea Rosenberg, Fantagraphics, 2020) • 2013- Los Surcos del Azar (Astiberri) • English: Twists of Fate (Fantagraphics, 2018) • 2020 - Regreso al Edén, (Astiberri) == Awards ==
Awards
• (2008) Premio Nacional del Cómic • (2011) Barcelona International Comics Convention • (2012) Goya Award at Best Adapted Screenplay • (2014) Gran Premio Romics at International Comics Festival Rome • (2019) Inkpot Award • (2025) PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for Return to Eden == Further reading ==
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