Moa is a twenty -five -year -old girl, plunged into the vital tedium, stuck in her artistic career and with frequent anxiety attacks. One night, lying on his bed, sliding his finger compulsively on Tinder Match With a famous TV. The problem: it takes thirty years.
Thus begins All wrongthe first book by the Romanova cartoonist (Bollstabruk, Sweden, 1992) published in Spain in APA APA and with translation of Alba Pagán. The book, originally edited in 2018 with the title ALLTEN FUCKA UPP (“I always screw it up”), it is endorsed by the Eisner award for the best international edition he achieved with the English version, Goblin Girlin 2021. It is a generational history, in which many people born in the 90s will be reflected: the lack of professional expectations, the precariousness – economic and sentimental -, the permanent hitch to the mobile and the anxiety that all this generates . But also the friends, the support network and the need to talk about certain issues, taboos for the previous generation. Romanova tells his own and personal story, that of his relationship with the ambiguous television presenter who wants to be his patron, but that ends up putting it in the classic psychodrama, but also speaks of common problems.
“It’s closer to autobiography,” explains Mo Romanova in conversation with eldiario.es. “Most of it is like my comic -shaped newspaper, although there are some pages drawn to the manga style and I have never been a manga character,” he jokes. The facts described by the author happened in 2015, at a particularly complicated moment, still in therapy for their panic attacks, with sessions shown in the comic itself. But the book began to draw it a little later, in 2017, when it still had some “residual panic attacks.” “At that time it was good for me, as an exposure therapy,” he confesses.
In this type of works in which the author is the protagonist, and she herself puts herself in situations rather than movie, we can always ask how far her commitment to what really happened and at what time she reserves things for her intimacy. Romanova answers: “I have limits, but they are very vague… I would not want to expose my friends or my partners. Although I may have done it in my next comic, Pa glid (2022). But, above all, I think it is good for people to be open and vulnerable, so I have applied it to myself.
Mental problems are dangerous without a network
Romanova has no qualms about showing its economic difficulties and mental health problems in a country that, paradoxically, is reputed to be one of the few truly guarantee states of Europe. Romanova is drawn by living in not highly recommended apartments, frequenting out -free and fixed income houses, reminiscent of other comics, such as Labor slaves (2018) of the Polish Daria Bogdanska, based in Sweden.
In All wrongit is clear that everything that shines is not gold, and that opportunities are not the same for everyone. “Mental health is something that affects people of all social classes,” says Romanova, “but facing these problems becomes much more dangerous when you do not have an appropriate security network. Getting into a really bad spiral and not being able to get the right treatment is something that of course impacts the working class. ”
In that moment of weakness and uncertainty, a strange character bursts into his life, which Romanova always draws with a paper bag in the head, to hide his identity. A 53 -year -old television figure, who starts with her a murky relationship, in which nothing is very clear. Although he assures at first not to be romantically interested, but, rather, be a kind of patron, things soon refer to an awkward situation, in which all kinds of emotional blackmail and manipulation are present, Ghosting including.
It is not a crime, but it gives ‘cringe’
The excessive age difference sometimes leads to situations of abuse of power. Romanova has a clear position: “It is not a crime, it is not horrible, but of course it is disturbing. The men Boomer They should be more afraid to give CRINGE of which they have, ”he explains. “The difference in power and the dynamics that are created are a problem. Being so below the other person, from the social, economic or professional point of view generates a rare situation. People go beyond their limits in those situations, and it may be difficult to realize or analyze it for both parties. ”
Of All wrong His particular visual aspect also attracts attention, away from the simple line or even naif that is usually associated topically with autobiographies. Far from realism, Moa Romanova exhibits a style that demonstrates his formation in Fine Arts, and deforms the bodies in an almost grotesque way, moving the desired male look of herself and her friends.
With its shapes and colors it remembers key authors of the scene more indie of the recent comic, such as Canadian Michael Defore, although the cartoonist cites two others as their influences: “I love Simon Hanselmann and Anna Haifish.” Romanova also has other referents: “I was inspired by video games, for example Night in the Woods either Darkwood. And second -hand stores, where they have plastic shit of the 80s: it is something very important for my visual style. ”
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