L'ascension du haut mal (1996-2003; Epileptic in the Spanish edition), one of the greatest non-fiction comics in history, turned the Frenchman Pierre-François Beauchard (Nimes, 1959), known as David B., into one of the essential names of the Nouvelle BD, the movement that completely revamped French comics during the 90s. But he is not the author of a single work but a creator with a boundless imagination, almost overwhelming, as he once again demonstrates in El señor Búho y el País de los Muertos (Salamandra), the exuberant poem about life and death that he has drawn in panels of prodigious black and white.