“Who doesn’t love a good pirate story?”, smiles José Smith Vargas. The comic book author, also a musician and actor, is with Ípsilon on a terrace in Jardim das Amoreiras in Lisbon, on an April afternoon. The story he talks about has a man at the center and touches on various times and geographies, from the 1980s to the present, from Bordeaux and Toulouse to Barcelona and, crucially, Lisbon.
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