In the Spain of the late Franco regime and the first years of the transition to democracy, adult comics became a tool against the established system through the loan of paintings that will act as metaphors of freedom. Already in the eighties, the comic book artists approached the new considerations of narrative figuration, replacing criticism with the expression of everyday life, cosmopolitanism and contemporaneity. A circumstance marked by the confluence with the New Figuration of Madrid and the presenteeism of the movida. This article analyses the role exercised by pictorial quotations that range from transgression to belonging to the new aesthetic, so that comic book artists will decide on the option that adjust their concept of creation...