Su primer libro ilustrado, Cosas nuestras, fue un éxito (inesperado) donde la autora dialogaba con su abuela a través de iconos de su época como Concha Piquer o Lola Flores, que engancha con ídolos actuales como Los Planetas o Rosalía. Poco después la editora de Lumen le propuso un libro sobre Federico García Lorca.

"He told me: I think you would do it very well," says Ilu Ros-.I asked him to let me think a few days, but deep down I had already decided.Lorca fascinates me, I couldn't reject him, although the project generated many nerves for the responsibility he supposes.If instead of telling me Lorca I would have let me choose any other artist, I would not know which one I would have said.Lorca was unique, there are few people like that ".

The book is an attractive visual tour of García Lorca's life, which we all believe we know, more or less, beginning with its brutal murder at the beginning of the civil war.Ilu Ros gets these illustrated pages to be a discovery, for profane and scholars, of the personality of one of the great artists of the twentieth century.

Federico (Lumen) combines the vignette, the explanatory text, the description and the illustration, jumping from the comic format to the documentary table.Its reading runs light but passes with a depth of content where no detail is loose.

In the words of Elvira Lindo: "Ilu Ros fuses voices and words with their illustrations, which drag us as the magnetic personality of Federico García Lorca: icon of past, present and future generations".

"Lorca told very well what a woman meant in a rural environment at that time"

"I knew Lorca especially for his theater, which I read at the institute.I'm from Murcia and I started studying Fine Arts.I continued the race in Granada.There the Lorquian atmosphere soaks you.When I started doing the book I wanted to convey that atmosphere.I started reading biographies and gathering testimonies of people who had met him.All those who treated him considered him a very special person, with a great charism that attracted those who approached ".

"Lorca said that he was inspired by those around him to create his characters, and it is so, all those women who are near him appear in his plays.The babysitter, the women of FuenteVaqueros, her mother, her sister...For example, Bernarda Alba's house is inspired by Francisca Alba, a well -known landowner woman in her town, whom they called a bottle.As I was documenting I started to see all those connections clear.One of my challenges was to reflect that ".

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"He was very observant.I wanted to tell how the adult Lorca is already revealed in his childhood.It is the least known part, or less told of him, and I think that in the Federico Mayor there is much of the child.He played theatrillos, to say Mass -he represented the priest, "she invented games with the nannies, with her brothers...And it made everyone participate ".

"He maintained a kind of naivety, of innocence, throughout his life.I think he managed to keep the child inside.That attitude so innocent but at the same time powerful and magnetic surprised those who knew him.His capacity for amazement made him special receiver of the emotions of others.Maybe that's why he was so empathetic and dear.That is why I understood so well what a woman meant in a rural environment at that time ".

"It is worth listening to your elders than wasting time with unknown stories on social networks that neither come to us"

"I always draw, but I never thought this could be a profession.I studied Fine Arts.I started in Murcia and continued in Granada.There I soaked from García Lorca's universe.Then I made audiovisual communication, because I wanted to go to movie themes.But I didn't find worked in Spain and I went to London.I stayed there for eight years, working at a hotel, in coffee shops...I stopped drawing and dedicated myself to surviving, with the impression of wasting time and being wasting the talent that I could have.Not to bitter, I hook the drawing.I started taking advantage of the free time and now you see, I dedicate myself to this.What yes ".

"I really like to tell me stories, and who tells stories best is old people.I am interested in their experiences, that they are going to be lost when they are not.We know the great milestones of history, but we don't know anything about the daily life of so many older people who are going to go.It is more worth listening to your elders than wasting time with stories of strangers in social networks that neither come to us.The stories that do not tell us are going to be lost ".

"My grandmother, the protagonist of my book of ours, was a woman who had not gone just to school.They had taught him to read at home because he had to work in the field.And in the end he was reading all his life.He loved reading romances and novels and talking about them.He also learned a lot from the lyrics of the popplasses and popular songs.It was advanced in time ".

"I got so much in the world of Lorca that it cost me to get out of there and start drawing"

"There was a time when I had to stop reading about Lorca.My first documentation phase coincided with the principle of pandemic.I spent the whole day reading books, looking for information, seeing documentaries, taking notes...I felt a lot of responsibility and wanted to find out very well.He is a well -known character and had to contribute something more.I got so much that it cost me out.I had so many information that cost me to organize and get out of there.He wanted to somehow appear all those who knew him, from his relatives and countrymen to his friends and their classmates and the generation of 27 ".

"My intention was to make a book that had a rhythm, that was not a farragoso, in which the reader did not miss but where at the same time he discovered a different point of such a well -known character.It costs me a lot to order myself, because I am disorganized, but I managed to build a script from timeline and characters.I wrote what I wanted to tell, and if the text was going to go in paintings or in vignettes.Finally, I made a storyboard with what would go on each page ".

"The part of his life that I like most is that of the barraca years.That decision to go for the villages of Spain in trucks to represent works of the Golden Age for people who had never seen it, it seems amazing.And do it for free in the town square!Gives the feeling that had a good time.They wanted to do something innovative and at the same time useful.It seemed a utopian idea a priori but they carried out and worked until he could no longer continue for the war.At that time, during the Second Republic, in Spain there was a high degree of illiterates.Pedagogical missions began, and it is a shame that they did not continue.If we now ask ourselves what happens in empty Spain, then imagine in those totally isolated villages ".

"Many times I have wondered what would have happened if they hadn't killed him.From his first book of poems, songs, to the Romancero Gyps and poet in New York, there are tremendous jumps.His evolution towards the avant -garde without losing the roots is incredible.In Theater did the same.He wrote works that he did not represent in life, such as the public or so spend five years, because in his time they did not know how to do it.He was the most advanced of his generation ".

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