And managers are clear: their business is not research or treatment, but marketing. Big Pharma weighs the health of the people and their economic benefit. Deep down I wanted to talk about the influence of large corporations, about how there are things in our daily lives that are decided in the offices of companies that not only sell products but also promote behaviors. Like the pharmaceutical industry, the topic of Yo, loco. We used the resource of a narrative self that justifies and explains its actions and, in the middle of the book, we realized that this was a good resource, and that we could explain other evils of our time too. I wanted to explain what it had been like to endure the violence that the ETA sympathizers justified and reflect on the issue of evil and gratuitous violence, to look in the mirror and see if there is something murderous in all of us, if some murders can explain others.

I had just retired after 38 years as a professor at the Universidad del País Vasco (University of the Basque Country), a very complicated job due to the presence of ETA sympathizers that forced many of my colleagues to leave. No, the initial idea was to just make a comic, Yo, asesino.

'Yo, mentiroso' by Antonio Altarriba: “Politics has become a duel between liars”ĭid you plan to make a trilogy from the get-go? Yo, mentiroso (Norma, 2020) completes this Trilogía del Yo with a story that delves into the sewers of power and Spanish politics. But there is another Antonio Altarriba: the observer who radiographs the moral miseries of society through black fictions full of formal daring such as Yo, Asesino and Yo, loco, in collaboration with the cartoonist Keko. BarcelonaMany readers know the screenwriter Antonio Altarriba (Zaragoza, 1952) thanks to his works with Kim on family memory, El ala rota and El arte de volar, National Comic Award in 2010.

El arte de volar by Antonio Altarriba