The House
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The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca's own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family's vacation home a year after their father's death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But, as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Roca asks what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone.
Paco Roca
Paco Roca is an acclaimed Spanish comics artist whose translated works with Fantagraphics include The Treasure of the Black Swan (2022), Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas (2023), and Return to Eden (2024).
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Andrea Rosenberg
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Andrea Rosenberg is a triple Eisner Award-winning translator. She has translated from Spanish and Portuguese the works of incredible cartoonists including Laura Perez, Paco Roca, Sole Otero, Ana Penyas, and Marcelo D'Salete.
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