EUROPEAN GRAPHIC NOVELS

A graphic novel is a type of comic book usually with a long and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series.

Graphic novels are often published in a better format than the comic magazines, using the same materials and methods as printed books, and are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands.

THE SWINDLING INDIES

Written during the Spanish Golden Age, the Picaresque novel tells the story of a pauper. Tramp, beggar, thief and crook, the hero of the story goes through a series of implausable adventures, serves many masters and comes into contact with all levels of society. 

Among the greatest works in the genre, "El Buscón or the History of the Life of the Swindler", called Don Pablos de Segovia, model for tramps and mirros of misers, published in 1626, stands out for the ferocity of its humour.

Francisco de Quevedo, a major figure in the world of the Spanish literature, with an outrageous yet defined style, tells the story of the cruel and grotesque misfortunes of a larger-than-life scoundrel. At the end of the novel, set in Spain, the picaro Don Pablos leaves for America, or the Indies, as it was know then.

Quevedo promised a sequel, which he never wrote.

This is it.