Renaldo McGirth has been on death row in Florida since he was 18 years old. His story is told in the comic Perpendicular to the Sun by French author Valentine Cuny-Le Callet.

'I want people to see what the blessing of friendship can mean to two people,' says McGirth. The comic leads a wave of very ambitious debut works by female creators in the Spanish comic market. The author says she did not begin the correspondence with McGirth thinking about writing a book but rather about approaching that world that outraged her.