In her autobiographical work "Pretending Means Lying," Belgian comic artist Dominique Goblet artfully and brutally openly processes her difficult relationship with her alcoholic father. In intricate panels where pencil drawings blend with oil paint, the author explores the connection between reality and fiction. What does it mean to translate one's own life, one's own reality into image and text? Dominique Goblet worked on this book for a full 12 years and was celebrated by critics for it. "Pretending Means Lying," which was first published in France in 2007, is considered the artist's most important work to date and is now finally available in German. "It is a tough, experimental piece that makes no concessions either in content or style. Anyone who has read this book will recognize its great value.".