MANUAL DE AUTO-DEFENSA

MANUAL DE AUTODEFENSA is her unclasifiable, thought provoking, politically incorrect and hilarious graphic book. Indeed, the book revolves around the ever classic topics of Love, Friendship, Family, Happiness all naturally seen through Luci's original lens.

Gutiérrez's work is both the most personal yet universal testimony of what causes us pain, it stands upon reality with sincerity and a bit of bitterness. We are all testimonies of the daunting challenges we all face, and Gutiérrez offers us a way out, strategies of defense. The readers will be captured with her vignettes, even mirror themselves in them, and will shift from a big smile to an accomplice look, having found a partner in the understanding of our day-to-day life.

Luci Gutierrez (Barcelona, 1977) is a freelance illustrator. Her work has been awarded the Junceda Press Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the CJ Picture Book Awards, the White Ravens Awards and got a commendation in the Bologna Ragazzi Awards. Luci Gutierrez is a regular contributor for the US press and her work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal or Forbes. Her first book, English Is Not Easy (Blackie Books, 2013) is being published around the world. Her latest published work is the eagerly awaited Manual de autodefensa (Blackie Books, 2019).