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Penélope Cruz gets comic book makeover

A Spanish publishing company is paying tribute to the successes of the country's most famous Hollywood export, Penélope Cruz, by turning her into a comic character.

Published: 19 March 2014 07:44 CET
Updated: 19 March 2014 11:00 CET

Penélope Cruz gets comic book makeover

Photo: Collage of Korat Comics' Penelope Cruz edition

She may have been the first Spanish actress to win an Oscar, but Penelope Cruz's trophy cabinet was no doubt incomplete without a comic book in which she’s the starring character.

Korat Comics has now unveiled the first cartoon strips to form part of 'Penélope Cruz. Movie Biographies'.

CLICK HERE FOR THE BEST CARTOON STRIPS OF PENELOPE CRUZ'S COMIC

"She represents how effort and commitment can be transformed into success," comic creator Manuel Díaz told Spanish daily El Mundo.

Through his graphic novel, Diaz illustrates every chapter of Pé's life, as her fans call her.

From her early beginnings in an 80s pop video to the birth of her children Leo and Luna, without forgetting of course her Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

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Penelope Cruz: 'I have my personal war with technology'

Penelope Cruz on the red carpet at the screening of the film "Wasp Network" in Venice. Photo: AFP

Hollywood star Penelope Cruz warned Sunday that technology was driving high anxiety that would one day make “all our brains explode”.

The Spanish mother-of-two said she was worried about how children's mental health and development were being affected by the ubiquity of tech.

“I have my personal war with it,” she told reporters at the Venice film festival.

“I wish we could have lived in the 1990s for a little longer. For mental health issues that would have helped a lot, because I think things are going at a speed that we are unprepared for,” said the actress.

Cruz, 45, who is starring in “Wasp Network”, a thriller about five Cuban undercover agents who became heroes for infiltrating radical exile networks in Florida, said tech was coming to utterly dominate children's lives, hogging their time and imaginations.

“This might seem like an exaggeration to other people, but I am convinced that we were raised with a different relationships with technology,” she said.

“Right now children and teenagers are in contact so much with electronics and it takes the time away from children to learn to play, to have conversations, to be at a table having dinner talking to their family, or to be bored — which is something important we all should learn as children.”

Cruz, who has an eight-year-old son and six-year-old daughter with fellow Spanish star Javier Bardem, said our lives were being swallowed up by it.

Tech's daily dominance was “not only affecting children, but all of us…. It is something that is creating a lot of general anxiety and I wonder if this continues all of our brains are just going to explode,” said the actress, who made her name in “Jamon, Jamon” when she was only 15.

Cruz said that she hoped that rising fears about what we are doing to the planet would chime with a harder look at what tech was doing to us.

“I hope that there will be a movement for people to live in a different way, that will value a different pace, which leads us to the other big issue, what happens to the environment,” she added.

By AFP's Fiachra Gibbons

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