, “El duelo” is neither more nor less than, it is a graphic novel,Paula Cheshire and originally published in the Spanish language by Fandogamia Editoria published on October 6, 2020 and which we can currently find in various formats. In the year it was published, copies of the impact it had upon its launch were exhausted. Why should you read The Duel?(El duelo )?
Paula lost her mother to cancer. That devastating experience was a burden he had to learn to handle. And one of the things that helped him do that was translating it into comics. In this fragment of life, the author takes us by the hand to accompany her in this grieving process. With a simple and expressive style we see how he faced the different stages of the process: denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance. Through vignettes full of emotion and sensitivity, but also humor and irony, Paula shows us what remains after someone you love is no longer there: memories, feelings, relationships, changes.
Because it is a comic that tells us about death, but also about the celebration of life. Paula manages to open up in a very honest way, exposing her most intimate thoughts and fears within the reader's reach. He is a very honest diary, and this is surely where his success lies. It's a sad story, but it's also life itself, happening before our eyes. It's resilience and it's accepting how the world works.
El duelo is a comic that not only makes us participate in the author's pain, but also invites us to reflect on our own relationship with death and with the loved ones who have left us or who will leave us one day. It is a comic that teaches us that grief is not a linear or uniform process, but that each person experiences it in their own way and at their own pace. It is a comic that shows us that grief is not the end, but the beginning of a new way of understanding and appreciating life.
Supporting the story is the author's excellent drawing. I fell in love with Paula Chesire from the first time I saw her drawings, and I realized that she is not only an extraordinary illustrator (her friendly style, with traces of manga, is adorable), but a very intelligent storyteller, who knows how to combine the vignettes, how to give space to the silences on the page, how to introduce humor into a topic as intimate as loss... Without a doubt, in my point of view I highly recommend it.
Shows like this or cartoons there's always meanings in that shows more of life as it is.
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