Todo Bajo el Sol: Spanish graphic novel explores history of mass tourism

Ana Penyas's book tells story of three generations of a family whose lives reflect Spain's socioeconomic transformation

The opening pages of a new graphic novel charting Spain's long, profitable and often counter-productive relationship with tourism show four fishermen hauling their boat on to a Mediterranean beach already in the early stages of occupation by the new breed of foreign holidaymakers.

While the fishermen, rendered in monochrome to reflect their looming obsolescence, heave their boat ashore, a tourist, drawn in colour, sits beneath the shade of his beach umbrella and prepares to study a guidebook produced by the Franco regime.