CREATIVE FIRES: DAVID RUBÍN, DAVID SÁNCHEZ AND GRAPHIC NOVELS BEYOND REALITY
David Rubín and David Sánchez are two comic authors who not only share their first name and their passion for graphic novels: the newcomer, Sánchez, has been sponsored by the master, Rubín. Recently, they both published graphic novels marked by fire and passion, through Astiberri: In Rubín's case, El fuego, while Sánchez published Fuego de bengala. However, the books are very different. Sánchez offers a story that employs anthropomorphic snakes and mutant ducks to make us reflect on the infinite loop formed by life and reality. The book closes the author's trilogy, which began with Un millón de años (Astiberri, 2017), followed by En otro lugar, un poco más tarde (Astiberri, 2019). However in El fuego, Rubín, who triumphed with El héroe, Beowulf and Cosmic Detective, does so again with a purely science-fiction story, in which the perplexed protagonist is condemned to wander around the entire world, in a dramatic, visceral and revealing odyssey. The literary communicator and essayist Sergi Viciana, Phantastica.com teacher, is charged with finding parallelisms between these two ground-breaking works and the careers of their authors.