Under the reign of terror. Memory of Francoist repression in the post-Franco Spanish comic strip

Miguel Nunez. Mil vidas mas (2010) by Miguel Nunez, Pepe Galvez and Alfonso Lopez and Un medico novato (2014) by Sento Are among the most remarkable comic strips on the Spanish Civil War and Francoism. As for adaptations of memories, those of Miguel Nunez on the one hand (La revolucion y el deseo, 2002) and Pablo Uriel on the other (No se fusila en domingo, 2005), these works will be studied from four different angles: history, autobiography, adaptation and aesthetics. Because these allo/auto/biographical cartoons are based on testimonies, because they are fictionalized pieces of history and because they contribute to the effort to recover the historical memory of the vanquished of the Spanish Civil War, It will be necessary first of all to recall the particular nature of the context of production of these texts in order to emphasize that in Spain the question of civil war remains a politically burning subject. Following this, the analysis will focus on the memoir that Uriel and Nunez left us on the question of Franco's repression. Finally, we will study through the analysis of some emblematic pages the adaptive strategies adopted to transform these memoirs into comics and to try to figure the terror.