"Barcelona", a 1989 celebration in comics form of cartoonist Javier Montesol's home city. Made, as far as I can tell, for the collection of his Opisso y Dora comic strip from Editorial Complot.
In the cartoonist bio on one of the book's French flaps it says that the story is "dedicated to the city that appears as a link between all the material included in this book." True enough, though stylistically the piece is closer to the dry-brush, Picasso-infused expressionism of later work like his graphic novel Speak Low than to any of the work collected within. The story is also free of the irony that had (and has) been a fixture of Montesol's work and the Catalan comics scene as a whole, instead skewing further towards the sincerity of Madrilenian comics from the time.










