The 2022 comic travels from Japan to emptied Spain

'Cosmic Detective' (Astiberri), by Matt Kindt and David Rubín, will be released in 2022.

It is not difficult to predict that 2022 will be an excellent year for comics, taking into account the brilliant evolution that the ninth art has had in recent years in our country, also driven by the boom

manga, consolidated as the engine of the industry. Of what will come this year, we must especially highlight the Spanish edition of a surprisingly forgotten and almost unpublished work:

, by Tito. The Cascaborra publishing house, specialized in historical comics, recovers this series by this Spanish author living in France who, already in the eighties, made a masterful portrait of emptied Spain, connecting past and present to understand a future that did not arrive. He will not be the only Spanish author who will see his work published this year: the Galician David Rubín will hit bookstores twice, with the science fiction comic

, together with Matt Kindt, and with his long-awaited new personal proposal,

, both edited by Astiberri.

'Loneliness.

The last joy '(Cascaborra), by Tito.

For her part, Laura Pérez Vernetti will once again adapt the poetry of Luis Alberto de Cuenca in

(Kingdom of Cordelia), while the Apa-Apa publishing house prepares new works by young authors who are marking graphic poetry, such as Begoña Garacía-Alén (of which

will publish ) and María Medem.

A style to which both Chris Stygryt, who will see

(Desfiladero), and Borja González, who will publish his second graphic novel,

(Reservoir Books), feel close.

It will be the year of debuts like that of Eider Rodríguez and Julen Rivas in

, winner of the Euskadi award to be published by Grafito; that of César Sebastián in a long narrative with a work that talks about life in the Valencian towns of the fifties,

(Autsaider), and that of the new graphic novel by Isaac Sánchez

after more than two years of work:

(Dolmen).

We can also read

, by Sergio Salma and Amelia Navarro (Nuevo Nueve), which has garnered such good reviews in France.

And pay attention to the recoveries of national classic authors: ECC Ediciones opens the Fernando de Felipe Library with

, dedicated to reissuing the works of this fundamental author of the eighties, while Norma editorial will rescue the

by Ricardo and Nacho in a full edition .

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In the foreign comics section, one of the most anticipated novelties that is standing out in all the selections of the best of the year is Rutu Modan's new graphic novel,

(Salamandra). The same publisher will publish the risky and interesting

, by Matt Madden, a declaration of love for comics and its possibilities. From the greats of American comics will also come the new work by the always disturbing Charles Burns,

(Reservoir Books), and the complete edition of one of the references of the nineties,

, by Peter Bagge (The Dome). Autsaider will discover us one of the pioneers of autobiographical comics, the Québec girl Sylvie Rancourt, about whom she will publish her famous

.

Impedimenta continues to publish the indispensable work of Catherine Meurisse with

, which will appear in February.

The most vindictive comic will also have a space with

, by Katja Klengel (Sapristi), while the everyday will return from the hand of Keiler Roberts in

(Alpha Comic).

'Tunnels' (Salamandra), by Rutu Modan.

The followers of Simon Hanselmann are in luck with the edition of

(Fulgencio Pimentel), which addresses the pandemic and confinement; like those of Bretch Evens, from which the spectacular

(Astiberri) is published. And science fiction fans will be delighted to receive

, the new work by Ugo Bienvenu, which will be released by Ponent Mon. The most

comic

will not miss the appointment in 2022, with the integral edition of Neil Gaiman's

(ECC Ediciones) taking advantage of the premiere of its television adaptation or the recovery that Panini will make of one of the best superhero comics of the last times: the vitriolic

by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred.

And you don't just have to think about superheroes here: the renowned

by Roberto Recchioni and Gigi Cavenago (New Nine).

'Dylan Dog: Mater Dolorosa' (New Nine), by Roberto Recchioni and Gigi Cavenago.

Nor should we forget the recovery of icons that publishers such as Dolmen have consolidated with the excellent Sin Fronteras collection, publishing the classic series of press comics such as

or

. To this initiative is added La Cúpula, which will publish one of the comic masterpieces of all time, admired by artists such as Picasso or poets such as EE Cummings:

by George Herriman. An inexplicably unpublished modern classic in Spain is

, by Gianluigi Gionano and Gianni de Luca, a canonical policeman in his background, but groundbreaking in his form. The children's comic will have its space in this section with the first volume of

(Salamander).

'El comisario Spada', by G. Gonano and Gianni de Luca.

The graphic essay is already one of the most interesting forms of the comic and will bring us works such as

, in which Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay reflect on abortion (Astiberri);

or biographies such as

, by Koren Shadmi, dedicated to the life of the famous horror film actor (Gorge) and that of singer

, by Phillippe Girard (Norma).

, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, delves into the terrible episode of the Korean "comfort women" in WWII, while

, by Pere Ortín and Ramón Esono Ebalé, will deal with Spanish colonialism in Guinea, both in Reservoir Books.

'Tales from a distant past', by Shigeru Mizuki

And, of course, it will be the year of the manga: to the established publishers in this field such as Norma, Planeta Cómic, Panini, ECC, Ivrea, Babylon, Satori, Nowevoluton, Milky Way, Tomodomo or Fandogamia must be added those that are added or They open dedicated labels, such as Kitsune, Hidra, Ooso, Fujur, Odaiba, Sekai, Kame Kame, Salvat, Arechi, Kodai or Moondust, in an incomplete list that will be able to surpass, with certainty, the thousand of novelties of Japanese comics in Spain during 2022 Although it is practically impossible to highlight all the titles planned in this reduced space, pay attention to the long-awaited edition of

, the manga that the Spanish Kenny Ruiz is making in Japan (Comic Planet), as well as the publication of classics such as

, by Shigeru Mizuki;

by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Satori Ediciones), or

, by Susumu Katsumata (Gallo Nero).