That moment of the year, the urgency of innovation, by the most cautious attention, salesno matter how much the digital economy tries to convey the balance Black Friday and others, the January slope is a tangible reality after the Christmas excesses.
But news comics These customs are unfamiliar, because the news continues to reach bookstores in droves, let’s make a small selection of the most interesting:
absolutely surprise neighbor’s dog Sebastien Lumineau (Fulgencio Pimentel, translation by Joana Carro) is a collection of fanzines and scattered comics by this French writer whose protagonist is a private and talkative dog who acts as an angry witness to daily events ranging from the necessary hooligan spirit of childhood to the necessary hooligan spirit. or the sexual crisis of maturity to voyeurism and suspense in the purest film noir style. Lumineau captivates with a mix of ingenuity, irony, and a bit of ACME© trademark brutality, but then it stays put, forcing the reader to follow the open paths on their own. Slightly obscene.
With If I were a woman, I would marry myself. editorial Confluencias (translated by Jose Miguel Parra), continues in enormous print Joann Sfar’s Notebooks, A window to the mind of an author who thinks with cartoons and cannot think about life without drawing. His notebooks are much more than sketches and notes of his creations; It is a chronological and meticulous diary of his thoughts, parade of inspirations and creations, yes, but also of suffering, phobias, loves, joys, fears, angers, and nonsense. Reading Sfar’s notebooks is like a strange dialogue where a friend tells us about his life in front of some cafe and we nod our heads in silence. It is a work to be read in sip like life.
The genre of crime, which culminated in the legendary case and is fodder for television consumption today, seems to have given little space to comics, more concerned with crime and more literary versions of film noir. However, Shattered Isabel Ferrando and Jorge Castro (Cartem Ediciones) fearlessly begins the investigation into a famous and tragic murder committed in tourist Dénia in Alicante’s Marina Alta district. A senseless murder that invades all the clichés of horror, perfectly told from a stark black and white that allows Ferrando and Castro to carefully follow the criminal and start reflections in the background. Very interesting.
pre-released in digital format in an attempt at obscene Marcos Martin and Brian K. Vaughan, Panel Syndicate, the second installment of David López’s Blackhand & Ironhead series, is being put on paper by Astiberri. It’s an epic of overflowing freshness that takes the superhero genre and treats it exactly as it pleases for the misadventures of superhero and supervillain sisters Alexia and Amy. Without neglecting any element of the canon, López manages to create a fresh and lively story that aims above all to drag the reader on a roller coaster. from resolute visions and modern. Highly recommended.
And to end this list of recommendations is a classic: Dolmen publishing house publishes one of the classics for artists but forgotten by readers and critics: Buzz Sawyer, Roy Crane (translation by Rafa Marín). A first volume Collects strips from 1943 to 1945, From Alex Toth to Jaime Hernández, pure classic adventure, unmatched narrative power that decisively influences everything that follows, both for the haphazard execution of the action and above all for the sublime art of an artist who takes synthesis and line to a new level. has a decisive influence on many subsequent artists. A new hit from the Sin Fronteras collection.