Plain or simple, “the love that moves the sun and the greatest stars” (Dante) is only hidden in trajectories and personalities as different as Marie Curiethe only glamorous woman with a Nobel Prize in two different disciplines; Sigmund Freudan expert in uncovering the secrets of the psyche of troubled evenings, on the guilt of unsatisfied desires and finally, Joaquin Sabinathe poet of those “loves that die” and never die. This, love, passion and desire are discussed in part in these wonderful graphic novels that highlight the dark current level of the genre.
Marie Curie
Alice Milani
Translated by Blanca Gago
Nordica, 2026
224 pages. €25
Two manuscript pages of Marie Sklodowská-Curie are available Marie Curie (Nórdica), an album in color and with a clear line in which the Italian author and illustrator Alice Milani (Pisa, 1986) traces the life of science of Polish origin After traveling to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, you must discover radium and polonium. Marie, about which Rosa Montero explains A ridiculous idea not to turn to the truth who “loved like a madman” by Pierre Curie, which from his work implies a confession of love and an unsurpassed confirmation of the title of a woman in science.
Freud. When that moment comes
Suzanne Leclair / William Roy
Translated by Daniel E. Sanzol
Altamarea, 2026
136 pages. €24.90
Psycho-analyst Suzanne Leclair (Shawinigan, Canada, 1954) and illustrator William Roy (1985) abordan, en cambia, en Freud. When that moment comes (Tide) the last years of the father of psychoanalysis. Wines in white and black and red blood, unusual powers, highlight the darkness of a terrible year for the protagonist of this biography, who she fought in 1923 when they discovered cancer caused by her addiction to tobacco and which ended in his death on September 23, 1939. Between the media, operations in life and death, exile, we advised his hija Anna to fight the diseases of the soul, caused by so much bad love, and violence, a lot, the depraved Nazi and totalitarian violence that is attacking Europe.
Joaquin Sabina. Passion and life
Kike Babas / Kike Turrón
Bao Bilbao, 2025
224 pages. €35
Bottom line, you have a graphic resume that sings the praises of this love Joaquin Sabina. Passion and lifeby Kike Babas and Kike Turrón (Bao Bilbao), of which its protagonist declared: “There are things that are better than what I have recorded among the shadows”. The meticulous, detailed and entertaining album takes us to the childhood of the poet from Úbeda, visit pwe spent our university years at the University of Granada and exile in Londonand he has success in the mythical Mandrágora, with Javier Krah and Alberto Pérez or in his triumph as a solo singer with compositions that are among him all over the Spanish world. Yes, even some loves last “what two pieces of heaven in whiskey last.” on the rocks” and we know we crammed it in April, reading this piece can give us “10th and 11th, 12th and 1…” without losing interest in the special person.
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