Tag Archive | "Spain"

The Moro Studios remembered

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Until the 6th of May, the Sala El Águila exhibition hall in Madrid, Spain, is putting on an exhibition about the legendary Moro studios.  Dubbed The Announcement of Modernity, the show illustrates the groundbraking genius of Jose Luis Moro who from the 1940′s until the 1970′s, together with his brother Santiago, pioneered modern animation in Spain, [...]

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Alex Robinson goes to Castellón

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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Cartoonist Alex Robinson (his self-portraits get more self-depricating every time) is one of the guests of honor at this years ComiCS festival in Castellón de la Plana, together with Catalan surrealist wizard Max and topical cartoonist Manuel Fontdevila.  The festival, which runs from March 28th until April 1st, also features exhibitions on the South-African Bitterkomix [...]

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Birdboy

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Birdboy is a Goya Award nominated short (and often disturbing) animation from Spain written and directed by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez, animated at the Postoma Studio:

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Zoe in English

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Spanish illustrator and cartoonist FH Navarro is creator Sushi Online magazine and of the beautiful Dos Hojas, which I described as “one of the most poetic and thoughtful little comics I’ve read lately” – see my review here.  He has started a new webcomic, Zoe.  This time, “I don’t speak Spanish” is no excuse for checking it [...]

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Expocomic announces 2011 winners

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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At the Expocomic festival in Madrid, Spain, the winners of the 2011 awards were announced last week.   The lifetime achievement award went to Esteban Maroto, who is probably best known for his work for various Warren Publications magazines, such as Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella.  He is also credited with the design of Red Sonja’s [...]

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Previewing War: The Human Cost – Faith Based Terrorism

Monday, September 19, 2011

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As I explained yesterday, all this week we’ll be previewing Sean Duffield’s War: The Human Cost. Today it’s a hard-hitting work by Underground Comix legend Spain giving a historical and global view on Faith-Based Terrorism. Faith Based Terrorism By Spain Rodriguez You can (and you should) buy War: The Human Cost from Sean Duffield at [...]

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Spanish Revolution

Friday, May 27, 2011

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Anyone who follows international news will be aware that Spain was heading to the polls at the start of this week, with a profoundly unhappy electorate as the country struggles even more than most with the knock-on effects of the international economic meltdown. In scenes somewhat reminiscent of recent events in Egypt thousands of protestors [...]

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Spanish and French – could comics be any more European?

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Forgive me if it seems a little odd to post a video which is in a mix of French and Spanish on an English language blog, but even if you can’t follow all of what is being said here it is quite interesting to see the universality of comics culture as Fernando Tarrancón, an editor [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Draw! : France Vs Spain

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Graphic concerts, a sort of multimedia performance with cartoonists or other graphic artists sharing the stage with musicians, have become a bit of a mainstay at comics festivals.  At the 2011 edition of the Festival BD Pyrénées, which is appropriately held in the mountain range that separates France from Spain, a new twist was given [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Arrugas made into an animated feature

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The celebrated Spanish graphic novel, Arrugas, by Valencian cartoonist Paco Roca (who recently got high praise for his El Invierno del Dibujante (The Winter of the Draftsman), is currently being made into an animated feature length film, slated for release in 2012. The book, which was given nearly every graphic novel and comic award going [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Alan Moore at Madrid University

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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As Álvaro Pons at La Cárcel de Papel announced earlier this week, the Fiction Theory and Rethoric Research Group of the Madrid Complutense University has chosen Alan Moore as their central theme for its second International Congress on 21st Century Story Tellers. The congress cites Moore  as the most brilliant comic writer of all time, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Festival fever

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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It would seem that with the coming of spring, festivals all over Europe awake from their hibernation and start blooming again (hmm, that simiile didn’t quite work the way I had intended).  To wit : The festival of Bastia, On the French island of Corsica, kicks off the season on March 31st.  Until April 3rd, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – festival update for March !

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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So, everybody’s recovered from last month’s Angoulême extravaganza ?  Then it’s time to get back in gear and get ready for some more conventionalising and festivalisation !  To wit : This week, from the 2nd until the 6th of March, the Italian city of Bologna is all abuzz with the new edition of the Bilbolbul [...]

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I don’t search, I find – Antonio Parras’ last interview

Friday, January 21, 2011

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On June 2, 2010, Spanish cartoonist Antonio Parras (pseudonym for Juan-Antonio Parras Monlat, 1929-2010) passed away.  Only a few months before, Roel Daenen, one of the contributors to the Flemish comic magazine Stripgids, had a long conversation with him, which proved to be the last interview Parras ever would give.  The interview was published in [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Colibri II just got launched

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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Spanish publishers Apa Apa comics just announced the publication of the second edition of their Colibri fanzine, a very international collection of comics and art by people like Elisa Riera, Sergi Puyol, Felipe Almendros, Clara Tanit, Evripidis Sabatis, Antoni Hervàs, Leandro Alzate, Liz Prince, Markéta Michálková, Marc Bell, Sara González, Quique Ramos, Tommi Musturi, Mireia [...]

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