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Slower than Federica (Federica is my turtle), but I think eventually I'll get to catch up with the revision to my reading backward. That are not only American and French but also English, eh? (And Japanese, but it will later.) And not to entertain more and start with good cheer and optimism, the first thing I say is that Sex, Love and pistachios (Astiberri, 2010) should be the work that finally put in place Boldú Ramón. That is, just now, the site that Ramon could not take Boldú never throughout his career and that, however, at this point rightful. I refer to the site of grand old man of English contemporary graphic novel, which has come naturally with a sense the exquisite opportunity after years of silently producing his autobiographical pages, which is drawing with spontaneity and naturalness long before anyone knew the name of Joann Sfar. The successful recovery of his work has been carried out in recent years Astiberri (read first Bohemian but abstemious then The art of raising mauve and finally that concerns us here) reminds us that can be done adult contemporary comic with a voice and a style of its own, not merely imitative of foreign models, and can treat a comic autobiography. Sex, Love and pistachios shows Boldú repertoire which has accustomed us in his earlier works and adds a more deliberate reflection, a capacity for more nuanced and serene autobiography. Laughter is a book that must be taken very seriously, so much that deserved a national award this year's comics. But I fear that the jury will operate as a most solemn options other titles.

best comic made here is that it can be done here comic, pun intended. A comic that we understand, close, speaking to us with words, characters, our feelings and scenarios. That is for Sex, Love and pistachios , as does the other work which would give national award that happy if my hand were: past Rice Volume 1 (Reservoir Books, 2010), Juanjo Sáez. Rice past is a comic atypical because it is actually a compilation of the scripts, drawn in comic strip form, which Juan gave the production company responsible for the conduct of the television series Arròs Covaticas. And it's a comic book author unusual because, under its own function industrial, ends up being a collective work, there are episodes drawn by Gabi Corbera, and all color is Vanessa Cabrera, without losing the least that his intense personality juanjosaeciana. The former does not greatly affect the reading. Occasionally one finds an indication for the animators, a suggestion of movement, for example, a commentary on the music-and perhaps at times the pace is affected by the easement to a television story, but in general the comic reads as such forgetting his relationship with the screen. And the funny thing is that, in fact, is more comic comics Juanjo Sáez has published so far. In his previous titles always included many texts to link their stories fragmentary, while this time is facing a classic story, based exclusively on the drawing and text circumscribed by the bullet. In that sense, the TV series is originally developed resources to translate the language of comics to animation are truly amazing and brilliant-but the comic reaches higher degrees of intensity. Not in vain we are facing almost 800 pages, which are said soon. And not to become too long and not get lost in the thousand ideas suggested by this cartoon, I'll just mention just one: an episode cartoon ligerita 13-minute turns taken the paper in about 100 pages. And there is another way to Juanjo Sáez count everything you own in each episode without 'cheating' (ie, without resorting to the text as a shortcut). Is it about the comic, when it leaves the conventional formula: You need space to tell something . In 22 or 48 pages that include it. Even in the last 800 of Rice whole life, just life, it is complete, the overflowed and spilled outside, the bursts. But he sees his pulse and taste. The book is inflated because the content is BIG.

Moving from rice to last Themselves (Reservoir Books, 2011), Joaquin Reyes, is the most natural thing in the world. Both live in adjacent rooms, and even the Kings said in the preface that "it is as a book of Juanjo Sáez, but well drawn." In a matter of drawing, Reyes remembers me especially Juaco Vizuete-no when it's cartoons, but when you their stuff, and also in the use of color and space, which is the first of the compliments that I will to do. The next is that, without being self buff or fan Muchachada Posthumor or follower of the cocktail sauce, and thus escape me the circumstances of many of the characters portrayed in this book, I laughed a lot with this reading. Because Joaquin Reyes, beyond its modernity, is an old school comic, folksy, simple and looking-even through the shocking "humor with laughter, the tinkling of their public happiness, rather than exhibitionism of genius which is accessed via password. The absurd humor was not invented yesterday, they are asked to Tip y Coll, and rarismo has never been an excuse for not being funny. Reyes is honest, knows and works for that reward. As indicated Uncle berni, the key to these strips is as simple as his own presentation. From the moment the caricatured character comes with its own name, redundant sign next to the header, and is not self-affirmation but a kind of empty and repetitive as it seems to deny their own sense-that is, it's like when one says "Hi, I'm Keanu Reeves" was actually saying course it is not , "if not, what need would have to say? - we entered a frenzied game of disorientation that can break, literally anywhere.

Very good.

Another thing is already Chico and Rita (Nonsense, 2010), by Javier Mariscal Fernando Trueba. A book that has some points of contact with the past Rice Juanjo Sáez, indeed. First, because it is a sequel to an animated production for the screen, in this case that of cinema. Second, because there is a relationship between Sáez evil and Mariscal, something like the Sorcerer's Apprentice and Master Wizard. Sáez marshal who admires, and rightly appears as a character in last Rice , become more of an entity in a designer, in a kind of Mediterranean seudowarhol. And Chico and Rita is the kind of product that could pack man-industry talent, but from the street and lost in the multicultural world of the rich liberals to Trueba, who is going to Cuba to drink mojitos and listen to music and brought back a few drops of distilled cultural rum which color our gray lives of urban drones. All very chic, but rather contrived and far from reality, as the word chic today. The thing is that the Chico book and Rita is graphically beautiful, but soft, and the love story that counts is topical, but that should not be an obstacle to enjoy the movie, because, as my friend pointed out, comics most importantly lack of it: music. I guess because I have not seen. And all the onomatopoeia of the world can not replace the real sounds. For the few years that we are already reading comics, this Chico and Rita inevitably we have to remember the Valencian school of the eighties. I wonder if this would be the kind of book that would be produced today Daniel Torres, Sento and other names Cairo if that had not collapsed and had continued to work with continuity in comics over the past 20 years. But above all, above all, what gives me more morbidity of this comic is wondering if Juanjo Sáez end up doing things like Chico and Rita in twenty years.

Another English comic that gives me mixed feelings: Comedy an act (Dolmen, 2010) Max Vento, the third installment of the series "Actor contender." Vento has been improving with each book, and in this domain shows a more than worthy of their comic powers. Write, can draw, you know tell, and above all, for my taste, can write dialogue and keep the pace with a wonderful talent. However, I have a problem with one-act comedy : I have no very clear what I want to say. Say you need some strength to the story, something snaps on to the characters, some drama to the set. Tone is everything in a restrained and elegant than I like, but I love it. Or put another way: I love how it tells, but I like it so much that counts. Yet. Because I have the hope that Max will give Vento jump in any time and will do a comic really nasty . And then sure I'll enjoy to the fullest.

For further information:

Special interview with Ramon Boldú in entrecomics.

Arròs Covaticas online.

Vento's Blog Max and Max Vento interview by Borja Crespo guiadelcomic.

Easiest Driving Test Los Angeles

LIVES NEAR THREE DAYS IN SWITZERLAND


The most outrageous thing that I almost to do and finally I did in Freiburg was crocodile steak dinner served by a waitress in Iraq. This seems so very exotic, but it was actually a 60's style conservatory restaurant named The Penguin and the decor seemed a Tati film.

Freiburg

But we had not gone to devour dinosaurs, Freiburg had gone to stay warm and to give some lessons of introduction to the history of comics in a series of conferences organized by the Department of English literature of the Swiss university. I must say that it's funny to be talking about the history of comics and a half hour by train from where Töpffer Rodolphe drew his histoires in estampes back in the twenties of 1800. Of course, Töpffer was one of the great unknown for the students of the course, which, I told the organizer, Professor July Peñate, had covered their seats very quickly. The audience was very varied ages and backgrounds, all of it very diligent and eager to learn more about what this curious cultural object not found, as he calls Groensteen. Although the Swiss culture is closely related to German and French cultural spheres, and therefore in the Fnac Fribourg is a huge amount of bds, it is obvious that the comic still baffles the general public and adult. Fewer, though. Once again I meet women's cases around 40-50 years who started reading comics now, without a prior history as readers, through which his path had crossed Modotti Angel Street or Maus by Art Spiegelman. Surely if there was a work that all knew was Maus, Grand Master Key Universal adult comics. But now they wanted more, wanted to continue reading comics.

Anyway, really enjoyed it (did I mention because it was cold?) And I am very grateful to Julio and his wife, Ana, for treatment as extraordinary I dispensed. I am sure that in the future will give us new joys related to the comic and the university. Ideas and willingness to achieve are not lacking.

Are There Any Software Like Jibjab's

IMPENDING MARRIAGE


Scenes From An Impending Marriage (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011) is proof that Adrian Tomine is more fun (and sharper, and more interesting) when relaxation of doing something chorradita size smaller than when working seriously. A phenomenon, of course, that affects many other authors, who seem overwhelmed and enconsertados by stage fright and that, however, when they are driven by the unconsciousness of time allowed that all his talent to flow out and uncensored. The daily detail, truthful dialogue and irony nervosa are all present in this tiny little book intimate now been made public. I think that's why I enjoyed it so much that the thing was so stiff that Shortcomings.

why or because the subject interests me, I dunno.

Snotty Mucus, Early Pregnancy?

ENTRECOMICS GRAPHIC NOVEL AND BRAZIL

I sincerely thank the readers who choose entrecomics graphic novel as "Best of 2010 theoretical journal" . It is a distinction that respect especially since it comes from the web has become reference to the world of comics in English, and I have the impression that your audience is not only larger but also more diverse. Thanks to the guys entrecomics and thanks to all who have felt that my work was worth it.

The truth is that I can not complain about the reception that has been The graphic novel, several months after publication. Sales have responded, the book continues to occupy a prominent place in large libraries, and for auction, to be published abroad. The Brazilian publishing Martins Fontes has acquired the rights for publication, but now I have no idea when this will occur. It is inevitable that I remember Juan Antonio Ramírez , who always told myself how difficult it was to publish an essay of art outside of Spain and that he was one of our few authors who had done it ", so I dedicate this small achievement. Sure would have liked to see. I think it's good that a theoretical work on comics written in Spain is known abroad. Let's see if we encourage and do more and better in the future. What a curious word, right? "Future".

Vodafone Bb Prepaid Sim

SUPERMAN TO CREATE A STRONG ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE WORLD AS A WHOLE AND COMIC

In previous episodes: Mandorlaman spends a few months abroad and his return home he meets a montonazo accumulated comics. Disciplined compliance viñetera days reading, try to catch up and report their impressions in this blog.

not get it.

but persists in the effort, and though it might give the impression that since his return has only been reading American comics (see examples a , two, three , four , five and six ), it is not. As shown in this post will serve, where comics of diverse styles and themes are piled by the summary view that all come from France.

Let it, and not to delay the unpleasant things, start with the worst. In fact, God Himself (Nonsense, 2010), Marc-Antoine Mathieu, is not as bad as it seems, not even as bad as I was told. Yes, it's stale, eighties and more pretentious than The Sandman bound in leather, but Mathieu meets minimal narrative skill make, despite all the times that one falls off the book away, he still desire to make the effort to bend down to pick it up. Yes, the picture is vaguely reminiscent of the great Daniel Torres circa The Eighth Day, and the story is a matted version of La tournée God of Jardiel Poncela (just recently reissued by Blackie Books cover by Jonathan Miller), a true comedy , or funny, not like this, but ... will finally think I could have been worse.

Compliments to the unpleasant duties, let us joyful things: Friendship close (Diabolo, 2010), Bastien Vives. Yes, all who read Mandorla and discussions on this comic ago months, but now I'm off and I read it in the perspective of distance, without the anger of having to give my opinion before anyone else. In other words, coldly. And coldly say that if I fell under the spell of chlorine taste and In my eyes, close Amistad has left me stunned. The best of the three, by far, and it is clear that this kid has a talent that grows before our eyes. For me, this comic is large in the small gestures that come to play, gestures that are outside the normal scope of registration of comics, and that put him more in the vein of realism of the cinematography. That is, his characters are living beings, broadcasting in his breathing and his batting more than they can pass the best organized and written script in the world. I think Dash Shaw would kill to be as sensory as you live and get it so smoothly. Vivès travels to the bottom of masculinity with Fellini's own accuracy (I may come to mind for that reason I use unique Italian names for the characters), leaving only to give up and wait to see where he goes, how far. It may raise reasonable fear of being alive is lost in its success and end up as geeks love supermodels illustrator, portrait of a society mushy Calvin Klein ad. Others have been passed, Look at Manara. But it is fair to say that the repertoire of wimps / as gorgeous / as who populate his comics, and especially this one, "has meaning today for what you are telling now.

After the excitement that I was reading close friendship, I faced the second volume of For Empire, entitled Women (Diabolo, 2010), work done with Merwan Vivès with mixed feelings. For a hand, wanted-needed-more Vivès. For another, the first volume of the series seemed to me, speaking clearly, a world-class truño. Smug, unreadable and boring, almost had me doubting the capacity of the small wonder "(blame it all out Merwan was too easy). Well, I do not know if it was because I was still intoxicated by close friendship, but for the rule II seemed fantastic, light years from the first volume. Much more clear and concise, with an address and a personal style more mature, no nonsense exhibitionists, unpretentious of dazzling, concentrated on telling what who wants to tell and to tell the real thing, I returned to the last-but-recent golden age of nouvelle bd , when David B., and Blain, Sfar, partners or individually, but we were offered modern and classic series Hiram Lowatt and Placido , Socrates or semi-dog Isaac the Pirate and assured us more than what we have given then, he has been letting us hang with them all. For the Empire II renewed those promises and add some (I swear I've seen shadows even Breccia), we'll see how many plays in his third and final installment.

I'm already in the throes of the post of "sequels were good" (or third or fourth), also known as the best is as follows. One of the biggest hits of 2009 (at least among the critics) was of Winshluss Pinocchio. Well, I declare myself immune to it and now I will not go into details, but I liked it, despite all emperfumado came to like it. But, ours did not work. And now comes the last Smart Monkey (The Dome, 2010), Winshluss, with a much more modest housing, and I happened tit reading. Here, unlike Pinocchio , yes I see a great visual storyteller exhibited (the comic is dumb, except for an epilogue, by the way completely expendable) that Disney fantasies smeared with mud from the classic underground comix and renews us the eternal career of Coyote and the Roadrunner, but reversing the terms. That would probably be a crap (who wants to identify with the triumphs ready always?) But was saved because a letter Winshluss winner to finish off a final very bad temper. Very funny and very smart, should have heard of him more than I've heard, that's nothing. Maybe because I do not hear well, listen.

Another improved return: Sandcastle (Astiberri, 2010), and Pierre Oscar Frederik Peeters Lévy. I confess antifa (not masked) Peeters. From blue pill to Pachyderm through RG (what I liked about him, along with that of the plane) and Lupus provided I found more bark than bite. And that insufferable affectation to force the special gesture and revive the spirit of Alex Raymond for modern styling that comes to your ecstasy in the Pachyderm irritating frankly makes me nervous. Well, lo Sandcastle has all that and more and yet, it works. Nevertheless, it has weight and it makes sense, transmit and there is a feeling that, under the artful tricks, the authors really do have something to say. No need to decrypt the key, just knowing that the code contains a message, although we can not read it (in fact, always better not to read) . It is not only harmonious noise. I do not know if this effect is the result of a step of maturity Peeters, co-author of the influence of Pierre Oscar Lévy or that I was silly when I read it and I felt fine, but my friend, then left me waiting to see how it looks through the following curve. Curious, do less.

Of course, the titles had accumulated during my absence one of Trondheim and a Sfar, because, in any given period of six months during the last four years, Spain has always been published at least one title of Trondheim and Sfar one, and usually some more, especially, and increasingly the latter. The temptation is to talk more about this phenomenon of repeated publication of these authors' own works. Ie: their own productivity threatens to devour their production, as paradoxical as it may seem. That temptation is short as I start reading My shadow in the distance (Nonsense, 2010), Lewis Trondheim, the fourth volume of the series and The trifles. I think this series is, right now, what I like about what has Indeed Trondheim. And besides, I think every time I like. And no, not that I'm old. I have always been fascinated by the ability to turn on narrative-in magic, in entertainment, as tiny, banal and everyday. And nobody does it as well as Trondheim. Because in their tiny historietitas a page, which will inadvertently chaining in this great story without a story that resembles both our lives, not looking for epiphany Trondheim, emotion, mood or apology. Trondheim, we might say, it seeks, finds. And what we found falls on the full weight of lightness.

The old days. The king does not kiss (Ponent Mon) by Joann Sfar, is, meanwhile, another of the many titles that this contemporary phoenix mills every so often throws at us. And it very well, and until BENONE, full, as always, ideas and dialogue, situations and characters that will dazzle with their wit and originality. But reading it has happened to me a curious thing: I did not care. I did everything exactly the same, and I started to see less of the characters and situations and I started to see more wit Sfar and Sfar himself as if he were in front, like an apparition, standing in front of me and reading my comic book like a story and smiling pleased to see that I was fascinated or interested or captivated. Pleased with himself, or so it seemed. I fear that Sfar is a dialogue that Moebius to the drawings, and fall into the same evil incontinence, sustained genius (unsustainable), the overwhelming flood of unfiltered creativity. It is as if Sfar started writing-drawing from the top left of the page and continue to the bottom right without planning what you will do in the next bullet, and on and on until you run out of inspiration, he forces and last call you for tea. And when it runs out of paper, send the package to press and readers to distinguish the good from the bad, as God will distinguish the righteous from the unrighteous. While just read an album of Sfar, he's probably finished drawing three. It's a scary thought, right? Well, then how much more frightening to think that any of those three still one of the five series that has started and left hanging? I do not know, with all my respect, admiration and affection for this guy, one of the greatest of our time, sometimes I'm a bit with the desire to say, "Cut off a bit, Joann ..."

See? Here if I fell into temptation.

Finally, the coda, or epilogue to the post auction takes her something that fits me well with no speech, so I put it here goop because, well, at last After all is French, right? Practitioners horror (Stephen Bernard, 2010), Pierre La Police is a roll crazy, absurd story in spurts, which is so funny how as the what, ie the pace and tone as they say, and where the word hits the drawing to explain what is inexplicable, because it really has no explanation. Absurd humor, well, like a prolonged greguería an idiot would make sense and do not do more than increasingly muddy. And made me laugh out loud a few times, because surprisingly, you silly loose so great and so unexpected that applaud the bullfighter, he stops for a moment, greet, and then return to do a somersault over the bull's ridiculous. Because the bullfighter is not those who kill, is a bullfighter clown, and you just end the book and you say: "What a nonsense." And again: "Let's see when I take a while to re-read it." In short, Mortadelo for intellectuals, if it has not been invented ...

Watch Brent School Crush

THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. LECTURE SERIES



More points to note: next week I'll be in Freiburg (the Swiss, not German) participating in a series of lectures organized by Julio Pena, professor, Department of Languages \u200b\u200band Iberian Literatures at the University of that city. Talk about comics, of course. Here is the poster and the program, which as you see, is also included Pepo Pérez. I know it's difficult to match any of the readers of Mandorla is the area in those days, but I notice, because you never know ...

Mens Short Poofy Dresses

ADAPTING THE REFLECTIONS OF A NEIGHBOR

I still have some brief personal notes. Me done a lot of funny to see a text on Neighbor on the website of the Mexican newspaper El Universal . The proposal of blog hosted on the site of the newspaper is that Neighbor be a comic to be adapted for the screen (even imagine who would be a good director for that film.) The funny thing is that the kind blogger is not the only one who has thought. Someday we'll talk here about the adaptation projects Neighbor. Or maybe not, depends on how we rise.

Link: The Neighbor, adapting comics 2.0

How To Replace A Inova Battery

But mine eye. In this quest to continue chaining entries, now hooked by means of Pepo, and since now the blogger par excellence of the English tebeosfera on vacation, I put here this interview for H Magazine. Ojo! Do not listen the caption: The image that appears there is no advancement Neighbor 4, but a cartoon that appeared in The Mangrove (more on V4, soon on this screen.)

Cost Of Hemorrhoid Surgery

PEPO BLOGGER AND CHRIS CHRIS WARE

will note that I missed a whole week since the last entry only to give time for the next post was a complement to the latter. I refer to the notice of this interview he did Pepo Pérez Chris Ware and have uploaded to the website Rockdelux. Brief but dense.

Pepo Pérez interview with Chris Ware.

Moncler Coatsshop Fakes?

: STRATEGIES FOR A NEW COMIC HEROES

Since I have started school, I'll sack. Now, with an article I published in 2008, the number 76 of the magazine Mundaiz , published by the University of Deusto (San Sebastian). Again, the article began as a university, this time for a doctoral course of the Autonomous given by Juan Antonio Ramírez. The theme is Chris Ware, who we have discussed lately, and I think it may be useful as an introduction to situate the artist.

Link:

Chris Ware, strategies for a comic new

How Dangerous Is Skoal

When hanging Article Hero's Journey I remembered that the subject I treated more extensively in academic work which remains unpublished. Directed by Professor Valeria Camporesi, Autonomous University, was entitled 300: From Comic to Film , and despite that you have some time over (should be 2007, if I remember correctly), I thought it might be of interest to readers coffee Mandorla. In the final analysis, Miller goes, digital cinema and the Spartans. So, as the communication of Udine, but more than 100 pages. And in English, though. There you have it in case someone is interested.

Link:

300: From comics to movies

Glory Holes Columbus,oh

300 A MANUAL OF THE HERO'S JOURNEY


Bakuman 3 (Standard), Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.

Ptosis Eyelid Exercise

few weeks ago I finally got the minutes of Cinema and fumetto . Cinema and comics , an international conference in which I participated in 2008 in the Italian city of Udine. There I was with Laura Montero Plata, the English only other participant who had excellent communication on manga and anime, I went cold and white-linen shared almost every day with Pascal Lefèvre and Harry Morgan, our regular partners when it comes to food. The variety of the talks was awesome, had fun, and I have in my hands a tochazo of nearly 700 pages is one of the comic books more voluminous theoretical and dense contained in my library. My contribution was entitled Hero's Journey: From Paper to Digital , and have made available to anyone who is interested to read it in an accessible PDF using Google Docs. What what I mean? Among other things, digital cinema, adaptations of comics to the screen, Frank Miller, 300 and Super Bitch.

Link:

Hero's Journey: From Paper to Digital.

Gold Price At Mustafa

RockdeLux


In Rockdelux 292 (February 2011) published two reviews: Superman. Kryptonite never and Sex, Love and pistachios Boldú Ramon. In addition, the music magazine brings in its comic section coordinated by Pepo Pérez, reviews cartoonist Winter, Paco Roca, Pablo Rivers; Temperance. The power of fear , Cathy Malkasian, by Elisa G. McCausland, Torrezno The Adventures of Captain. elliptical plaza of Santiago Valenzuela, Alberto Garcia, Strange Suspense. The Steve Ditko Archives Vol 1, by Steve Ditko, by Lord Away; Adolf, by Osamu Tezuka, for Juanpa Holguin and review good scrotumtightening Alec, Eddie Campbell by Ruben Lardín. How to write so much and so well with so few words. I'm dying of envy.

UPDATE: Just today I find through twitter that tebeobien Rockdelux and is operating its website, and includes contents of the comics section .