The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and its people. The daily life of the creators and the founding family, the Brugueras. The world in which hundreds of vivid colorful paper beings lived and still live, in the memory of millions, in the smile of everyone.
Production
Rare archival footage of Franco-era publishing floors.
Writing
How jokes became coded political resistance.
Director
Carles Prats
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bruguera's 'Escuela Bruguera' trained generations who defined European comics; its collapse in 1982 coincided with Spain's democratic transition—coincidence?
Director Carles Prats discovered unreleased censorship files showing which Mortadelo Filemón gags specifically angered regime officials—pure comedy archaeology.
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