Pablo Auladell and Felipe Hernandez Cava They were born in 2008 I am my dream with the defunct Alicante publishing house De Ponent Paco CamarasaHe died in 2016 and they plan to work together again at his memorial service. Now one new date Created by the screenwriter and Madrid comics master merges with it Dramatic shot by Alicante illustrator inside Lubianka (Norma), a comic strip depicts evil and darkness An example of the purges encouraged by Stalin during Soviet repression in the 1930s.
out of these fifteen years time since first collaboration, both were rewarded with National Comics Award: Felipe Hernández Cava 2009 with blind snakes And 2016For Pablo Auladell paradise lost. Cartoonists explain how they put together their new work This Thursday at 19.00. in the bookstore Pynchon&Co With cultural manager and comics expert Paco Linares from Alicante.
For Linares, having both in Alicante is “a luxury”. Lubianka It was previously only available in Madrid and “It is remembered as one of the best comics of recent times”. Linares adds: “History, politics and condemnation of the excesses of totalitarianismalways present in Hérnandez Cava’s work” atmospherespsychology and drama Auladell collected through different chart records”.
The story takes place here Moscow in 1934. The headquarters of the terrible NKVD, the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, is on Lubyanka, silence broken by blows by the screams of the guards and prisoners called by petty officer Volodia Gubin physical and mental destruction The great poet Evgeny Petrovich Gogoliev.
Lubiankapoints out Pablo Auladell: “somehow I am my dream -a story with a leading role German airman in World War II– because Felipe [Hernández Cava] Moreover explores the problem of evil, how evil nestles in great idealsDiscussed again in this study Stalin’s purge of the Soviet police among intellectualsIt was closed in Lubyanka”.
Collaborate without rushing
In addition to the 60-page article, the difference with the previous one I am my dream at 148 Lubianka– is this “Demands more violence and forcemore aggression, but still acting in the poetic and literary field. Even though the intent is the same, here I am most dramatic areas “This makes the drawing stronger,” adds the Alicante-based cartoonist, who started the project with Hernández Cava seven years ago. “Without rushing, with the first exchange of ideas between us,” it finally happened. drew for seven months Between 2021 and 2022.
“It’s not stupid to do something with Felipe. He is one of the best screenwriters and experts of the 20th century. what we have and what it takes to work with it document yourself a lot, even if you forget it later while drawing, “Get into the era and create those atmospheres”Appreciating collaborating with this writer, Auladell explains: “It helps me because it allows me to touch on topics that I am not adept at but that interest me. I fill my own gaps and learn.
Auladell’s style, which has a poetic and melancholy mood, matches the darkness suggested by Hernández Cava. “I don’t normally do anything too white, but I do “I wander in areas that speak of death, a lost beauty, or the passage of time.”adds the author and illustrator, who will reflect some preparatory drafts of the novel in the presentation.
Upcoming comics
The next comic book presentation at Pynchon&Co bookstore will be Paco Roca’s last work. The abyss of oblivionwith expert critic Alvaro Ponson December 14th and will follow in January The sky inside your head Written by: Antonio Altarriba, Paco Linares is moving forward.