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Publisher | Come back the Comic Barcelona
The Barcelona comic, known in its beginnings as the Comic and Illustration Hall, reaches its 40th edition after having spent two critical years in which it has not been held…
“Grunge was mostly lazy attitude”
Let’s imagine that the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ asks you for an entry on grunge as a sociocultural phenomenon. What would you write? Which was sheer nonsense. I couldn’t get a better…
The Z as a symbol of the ‘military operation’? It already existed in the Spirou comic strip
Znavlednewz, or Zwendel van Z, from the Robbedoes album ‘Z van Zwendel’.Statue Frequin ‘Z stands for Russian war crimes, bombed cities, thousands of murdered Ukrainians.’ This was tweeted this week…
“Schlachthof 5” as a graphic novel: really cool comic
Ryan North hasn’t forgotten his first read of Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war novel shortly after high school. “I have a very vivid memory of reading the book behind the wheel of…
Comic artist Tom Gauld turns the fairytale genre upside down
It is a pity about the spelling mistake in the title: tree trunk princess is of course one word in Dutch. Furthermore, The Little Wooden Robot and the Trunk Princess,…
The monster of anorexia, exorcised in a comic
“Today I can say that I have recovered. I think of 15-year-old Elisabeth and I feel different, liberated. The monster is gone.” That monster, which represented “fear, anguish and anxiety”…
Max, Jordi Costa, Paco Roca and Emilio Bernárdez say goodbye to Miguel Gallardo
The death, at the age of 66, of cartoonist Miguel Gallardo, a fundamental figure in Spanish cartoons and illustration over the last four decades, has led to a rare unanimity…
George RR Martin is working with Marvel on a new comic book series
George RR Martin is working with Marvel on a new comic book series George RR Martin Photo: via Getty Images, Christopher Polk/NBC. All rights reserved. George RR Martin has adapted…
Exclusive Comic: “Betty Davis” – She meows, roars and hisses
Pénélope Bagieu’s graphic novel Undaunted is a superbly illustrated lesson on women who, despite their outstanding achievements, have perished in history. For example the funk singer and fusion jazz initiator…
More women and comics among the 1,000 works acquired for the national art collection of Catalonia
The ‘ministry’ of Culture allocated a total of 1.9 million euros in 2021 to the purchase of pieces by 99 creators, 600,000 euros more than in 2020 Priority has been…