Friday at Zenda. Comic Friday. On this Friday, it’s Under the Trees, Where Nobody Sees You. The Consecration of Spring, the latest work by American cartoonist, filmmaker, and screenwriter Patrick Horvath, translated into Spanish by Santiago García for the publisher Punct— Astiberri. Continuing the universe of the brown bear Samantha Strong, a serial killer already introduced in the successful Under the Trees, Where Nobody Sees You, Horvath again tests his ability to weave childhood imaginaries with a black humor stained by crime.
The publisher itself notes, about the book: “Eight long years have passed since Samantha Strong, an exemplary citizen and a brown bear thirsting for blood, burst into the city, kidnapped a friendly duckling, dismembered its body, and buried the remains in the forest.
The duckling’s family has since pursued justice with ardor, though no progress has been made.
However, almost a decade after the adorable Samantha Strong established herself as Woodbrook’s sole serial killer, the world is entering a new phase. As Samantha will soon discover, there are no secrets in the internet era and those who lost their loved ones in the massacre have not extinguished the flame of justice. A reckoning is looming in Woodbrook. Has this charming bear done her job well?
Under the Trees, Where Nobody Sees You. The Consecration of Spring is a sequel written by the screenwriter and filmmaker Patrick Horvath, winner of the 2025 Harvey Award for Book of the Year and nominated for the Eisner Award 2024 for Best New Series for Under the Trees, Where Nobody Sees You, whose publication in Spain has gone through three editions in just one year. Horvath again demonstrates with this work an admirable ability to pair the most macabre scenes with an aesthetic typical of children’s fairy tales.
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Author: Patrick Horvath. Translation: Santiago García. Title: Under the Trees, Where Nobody Sees You. The Consecration of Spring. Publisher: Astiberri. Sales: All Your Books.