MOTHBALLS SC

Mothballs has already won the Fnac-Salamandra Graphic Novel Award in 2019 and the Audience Award from the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2023, and now it can win your heart too. Mothballs follows the relationship between a grandmother (Vilma) and a granddaughter (Rocio) and spans across four generations, taking you from 20th-century Italy to 21st-century Argentina. The comic perfectly captures the political climate in Argentina along the way as Rocio uncovers the hushed history of sexual violence in her grandmother’s past. Sole Otero encapsulates both the similarities and differences between Vilma and Rocio vividly in her mesmerising illustrations, with mothballs permeating Vilma’s house and will eventually invade the reader’s mind once they are done with this masterpiece.