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Spanish Revolution
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 [...]
Continue reading...Spanish and French – could comics be any more European?
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...In a world of screen addicts…
Monday, November 15, 2010
… the cool people read comics. At least that’s what I read in this official campaign visual from the local government of the Basque province of Araba-Álava (Spain). And I think we should all take notice – even if you don’t read basque, the message is immediate clear. Try that with movies. The artwork for [...]
Continue reading...Two leaves last a lifetime
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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While cleaning out my backlog of rss feeds, emails, buzzes, tweets and what-have-you’s, I came across this gem by the Spanish cartoonist FHNavarro (the creator of the rather awesome but sadly now defunct Sushi Online magazine). It’s called Dos Hojas (Two Leaves) and it is one of the most poetic and thoughtful little comics I’ve [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – the state of the Spanish comics market
Monday, May 24, 2010
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A while ago, we delved into a quite lengthy discussion of the state of the French comics industry, based on the French Association of Comic Critics and Journalists’ yearly Bilan. Earlier this month comics journalist Álvaro Pons wrote a similar overview for the Spanish comics blog Carcel De Papel (Paper Jail), albeit a much shorter [...]
Continue reading...Mental Health Comics in Spain
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Marko at Neorama points us towards a new collection, Comics: Fundacio CPB de Salud Mental, a collection of 141 comics made by users of the mental health services in Catalonia: “This innovative book is the result of an idea of the prestigious American graphic designer Sanchez, who for years collaborated with the Mental Health Foundation [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Netherlands to be the guest country at Ficomic Barcelona
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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From May 6th to May 9th this year, the 28th edition of Ficomic, the Salón Internacional del Comic will take place in the Feria de Barcelona. Not a lot is known as yet about the programme: a recent press release only revealed that among the confirmed guests were Gilbert Shelton, Jeff Smith, Liberatore, Lewis Trondheim, [...]
Continue reading...Awards round-up: British Fantasy Society, Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Avilés Comic Convention
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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There’s been a bunch of SF&F and comics awards over the last few days – the British Fantasy Society awards were given out at Fantasycon (doubtless over many drinks), with William Heaney taking the gong for Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award) for Memoirs of a Master Forger, Doctor Who took the Best Television [...]
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