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Mass tourism, real estate speculation and human drama: In Sunny Sides, young comic artist Ana Penyas transports us to the Spanish Levant at the beginning of the 1960s to tell us the story of a family suffering the devastating consequences of mass tourism, the main engine of economic development in Franco's time. Over the decades, we see how the landscape and its natural wealth have been changed forever, and how the rise of neoliberalism destroys the hopes and projects of this family. But there is still one place that resists: Between the old, narrow city centres and the coastal villages that have become holiday resorts stretches the Huerta, where a way of life still holds on, threatened by the relentless advance of reinforced concrete.