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Juan Fernández

Posted on September 28, 2016September 28, 2016

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Comics WorkbookJuly 26, 2018Residency Reports / School UpdatesNick Fowler is a cartoonist based in San Francisco, CA. He joined us in Pittsburgh, PA, for a weeklong Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency in June of 2018. Here are his thoughts about visiting the city and his Rowhouse Residency experience. ——————————————————————————————— Nick Fowler here: I was very nervous on my Greyhound ride from New York to Pittsburgh. I didn’t know exactly what to expect from my time at the Rowhouse and it was a fairly spontaneous decision to take part in it. The weeks leading up to my residency were spent packing all my belongings from my three years in New York City at The School Of Visual Arts, and then shipping them back home to San Francisco. It just so happened that there was a last-minute opening at the Rowhouse the week I was scheduled to move back home, so I jumped at the opportunity, thinking it would serve as a buffer between three confusing years of art school (think Art School Confidential with cartoonists) and my indefinite time back home. There, I would be looking for part-time jobs, reacquainting myself with the friends I had left and relearning, in some ways, a vastly different San Francisco from the one I left three years ago. In an attempt to quell my fears and distract myself, I read Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone on the Greyhound. It blew me away – a comic about the role of entertainment in a capitalist dystopia reminiscent of J.G. Ballard’s Drowned World by way of Moebius’ Airtight Garage in which, for the majority of the comic, the main characters spend their time buying things. Talking about this comic any more would require writing an entire article. The first night, Sally Ingraham picked me up from the Greyhound station and we talked about our respective comic-making histories. She showed me around the Rowhouse and introduced me to the other permanent resident, Audra Stang. The first day at the residency, Caleb Orecchio drove me to Copacetic Comics where Sally was working. On the car ride over, we talked about Dash Shaw, Connor Willumsen and SVA. I have been going to comic book stores my whole life, and I honestly think Copacetic is one of the best, if not the best I’ve ever been to. It’s often hard to find a comic store that has a thorough collection of both old back issues and small press stuff. Usually, I find that if a store specializes in one, it’s significantly lacking in the other. Despite being a fairly small store, Copacetic somehow has both in spades (and more). While at Copacetic, Caleb and Juan Jose Fernandez started a conversation about why Craig Thompson’s Blankets doesn’t hold up for them. The conversation, as I remember it, was centered around the way Craig’s loss of faith was portrayed in the comic. The details would be hard for me to articulate here, as it was gloriously convoluted and drew from their past experiences with Christianity and Catholicism, most of which was lost on me, as I was raised culturally Jewish. Nevertheless, to hear such an impassioned discussion about Blankets and its place in the pantheon of comics history was a thrill. I stood there smiling like a doofus. I felt like I was where I needed to be. Afterwards, seeing how overwhelmed I was with the store, Juan gave me some great recommendations and I went home with an issue of Street Angel and the 2003 edition of The Ganzfeld. One of the most important things that was cemented for me during my time at the Rowhouse was the immense importance of environment. In both a social sense (as demonstrated above) and a more literal, spatial sense. The room at the Rowhouse had a bed, a table and a box of Love and Rockets (#17-28 if I remember correctly). And nothing else. Every day I would wake up and take two steps to the drawing table to either draw, or to read Love and Rockets and then draw. For the week I was there, there was nothing else I had to do. It felt like a splash of cold water on my face. On my fourth day, I decided to take a break from drawing and walk around the neighborhood. Pittsburgh itself feels special. It’s a quiet, beautiful city with tons of history. It’s the kind of place where people watch Frasier with the door open. Eventually I found a baseball field in an alcove down a long set of stairs, surrounded by trees. I sat there as the sun set, watching a man fly a drone in the middle of the diamond while a deer looked on and the sound of passing trains echoed throughout the park. The day before I left, I went down the block to Frank’s house. Having both lived in San Francisco, we compared our respective SF’s. His being the romantic-sounding post-earthquake, pre-dot com boom and mine being the nebulous post-dot com boom, pre-tech boom. The conversation eventually turned to bay area punk, Cometbus, Kembra Pfahler, and inevitably, comics. Having just returned from a trip to Europe, Frank was ready to lay out his bountiful experience and frustrations with the North American comics landscape. Frank is a walking comic history course. At a certain point, he mentioned how when he was younger, he would listen to Bill Boichel of Copacetic Comics go on these long, weaving tangential rants, and just say, “What next?” Egging him on and soaking up everything he could. This was exactly how I felt talking to Frank. He ended the conversation by telling me, “You’re going to struggle.” The various car rides and conversations with Sally, Caleb, Audra and Frank were equally as inspiring as having unlimited drawing time. Advice I’d give to future residents is to balance your time between drawing and socializing with the Rowhouse crew. I tried to achieve a balance myself, but ended up spending most of the time indoors drawing. Some pages from my stay: ——————————————————————————————— Keep up with Nick Fowler HERE! For more information about the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency visit this page or email santoroschool@gmail.com Share this page: [...]

10/26/2016

Juan FernándezOctober 26, 2016los Cómics / NewsJuan con un poquito sobre: Daniel Jiménez y Jesús Cossio entrevistan ha Joe Sacco; GRAF Madrid; Alienation 2 por Inés Estrada; “el fracaso de la narrativa gráfica” en Mexico; Publisher’s Weekly on Spanish language comics; Fanzinología Mexicana 1985-2015. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Joe Sacco habla sobre el periodismo,el hecho de narrar conflictos, y la violencia que el capitalismo permite. Es genial ver esta entrevista. Esta entrevista fue realizada por Jesús Cossio y por Daniel Jiménez en el Hay Festival 2014 de Cartagena. Mi trabajo es sobre la realidad de los conflictos, pero éstos se basan en la naturaleza humana. Yo no podría haber dicho esto hace diez años pero es de lo que tratan mis cómics, en realidad. Algunos de mis libros son acerca de un grupo específico de seres humanos. Por ejemplo, en mi libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial veo a los seres humanos convertidos en una masa y cómo la naturaleza humana responde a ese tipo de situaciones. Si existe un interés en el autoritarismo y la xenofobia yace, por decirlo de alguna manera, bajo la sombrilla de mi interés en la naturaleza humana. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡GRAF – Madrid se acerca! Ya puede consultarse la programación y el listado de expositores de #GRAFMadrid2016 que tendrá lugar del 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2016 en Madrid. talleres, musica, encuentros, feria de libros… es obvio que el equipo Mireia Pérez, Iñaki Sanz, Borja Crespo, Gerardo Vilches y Pedro Toro estan montando un monstruo de comics y fanzine fest… ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Alienation 2 por Inés Estrada esta disponible para la venta! Es el segundo volu su segundo volumen de su serie sobre la realidad virtual en el ártico. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Publisher’s Weekly has a piece on the comics that are making a large impact on the American comics market from Spain and Latin America. (Thanks Heidi!) Paco Roca, Liniers, Power Paola… Heidi McDonald touches on the heavy hitters in comics. The ones have changed how many approach the art form. It’s a nice, concise recapitulation of all the on the ground work that cartoonists and comics publishers have been doing in the past decase. Of course, McDonald’s emphasis here is on what is making it to the states, and at the moment that is primarily Spanish work. If you’ve been following this blog, I think you can imagine that this is soon to change… ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Francisco Haghenbeck nos da un contraste a esta atitud tan optimista. Haghenbeck se enfoca en “el fracaso de la narrativa gráfica” en Mexico. Por supuesto quizás Haghenbeck no no ha buscado bien bajo la superficie? Como, no es una criticá de “la novela grafíca “, osea que conviene proceder con cuidado 😉 A los últimos años, se ha tratado de recuperar la cultura de la narrativa gráfica en México, siguiendo la moda de otros países con una robusta lista de obras de calidad como Francia, Argentina, Japón o Estados Unidos. Cuando yo hice la recopilación e investigación para la exhibición “La vida en cuadritos: 120 años de historieta” (Museo Pape en Monclova; Gran museo de la Cultura Maya, Mérida; y Museo Guanal, Cd. Del Carmen) me di a la tarea de buscar las obras que representaran a nuestro país. Con tristeza, me enfrenté a que en los últimos 25 años hay una gran ausencia de historias de calidad literaria. Desde la muerte del colectivo Taller del Perro de la ciudad de México, y en especial, la novela gráfica Operación Bolívar de Edgar Clement, es notable el vacío. El único maravilloso asomo, apenas el año pasado, es la versión personal de William Burroghs de Bef, Uncle Bill (Sexto Piso, 2015) que, como señal de crisis, fue realizada con el apoyo del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Literatura y no de narrativa gráfica. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Y para darle contraste a ese articulo, les quiero decir que la antología de fanzines que Inés Estrada recopilo hace un año, Fanzinología Mexicana 1985-2015 (editada por Enrique Arriaga y Inés Estrada), ahora se puede descargar gratis en Gatosaurio. The underground is alive and kicking. Compilation featuring a selection from the graphic and visual narrative of three decades of mexican fanzines. The work collected was originally self-published in limited runs by and for underground niches formed by punks, queer activists, artists and amateurs among others. This book intends to collect and highlight these obscure publications and also to be a reference for contextualizing mexican zines. This is the first effort of its kind in Mexico. Edited by Enrique Arriaga and Inés Estrada, with material they both collected for la Fanzinoteca del Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City. Arriaga started la Fanzinoteca in 2014 as a zine archive and a cycle of exhibitions at the museum. Book design by Inés Estrada, with a cover illustration by Edwin Sandoval. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Echale un vistazo a este medallón estilo Pompeii! “Le encargué a la gran Airi Maeno que hiciera unos medallones de plata con sede fuera de mis dibujos. Este dibujo viende de mi libro Pompeii. Es algo que puedo imaginar que alguien se pondría hace dos mil años. Un simple medallón de un ser querido. Un retrato. Algo permanente para desafiar a la desaparición”. – Frank Santoro Puedes comprar uno aquí! ————————————————————————————————— hasta la próxima! juan Share this page: [...]

06/21/2018

Juan FernándezJune 21, 2018NewsHartley Lin Interviewed at Comix Experience; Zak Sally’s latest zine; the Summer Santoro School Correspondence Course – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hartley Lin (Pope Hats, Young Frances) is interviewed by Brian Hibbs, live at Comix Experience in San Francisco. This is a great interview that in addition to giving great insight on where Lin is coming from as a comics maker, also notably discusses the world before and after the Xeric Grant. A little on Hartley Lin before you dig in: Lin is a cartoonist and illustrator from Toronto. His comic book series Pope Hats has received a 2013 Ignatz Award, 2012 Doug Wright Award and 2010 Joe Shuster Award. He has illustrated for Slate, HarperCollins, Chronicle Books, COMPLEX, Wired, The Walrus and The Believer. He now lives in Montreal. Hartley debuted Young Frances, his first major graphic novel with AdHouse Books at TCAF this year. Watch it over on Youtube. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – FOLRATH PART 2 – Zak Sally $9.00 at La Mano At long last, here it is. Starting mere moments after where Part 1 left off, it’s 159 pages of stories about landing in punk rock Oakland, CA circa 1993. It was a hot fucking mess. Still printed on shitty newsprint (blue ink !!!) then folded/ assembled by me. Unbelievably, this ain’t the end: part 3 wraps it all up (it’s way shorter than the other 2), but it’s not quite done yet. I’ll let you know but in the meantime, come wrestle with me down the verdant horse-trough of memory lane why don’t you. – Zak Sally – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers Summer Session starts NOW! Floating start date! Apply anytime between now and July 12th 2018 to join the summer course. Email santoroschoolATgmail for more details. Ask about the Fall Course if now is too busy for you! The course is 8 weeks – 500 bux for 8 weeks plus access to Frank’s coaching for as long as you need. Payment plans are available. Put your summer to good use! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Cozytown – 06-21-2018 – by Juan Fernandez – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Joanie and Jordie – 6-21-18 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

Bill Griffith’s Weird Pittsburgh

J KellyMarch 25, 2016Art Trip / SketchbooksLegendary Underground cartoonist Bill Griffith has often set his long-running daily newspaper strip Zippy the Pinhead in the city of Pittsburgh. Griffith has visited Pittsburgh several times, including in 2009 when Pittsburgh’s cartoon museum, The ToonSeum (then still located in the Children’s Museum), put on the show Zippy’s Pittsburgh and More, which included some of the strips seen below. On April, Griffith will return to Pittsburgh to talk about “45 Years of Zippy” at the ToonSeum on April 1st at 7 pm and to take part in our Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo (PIX) on April 2nd. As part of PIX, Griffith will sign books during the day, run a cartooning workshop for Comics Workbook at the Carnegie Library at 3:30, and speak about his new book, Invisible Ink at 7:30. In preparation for all that activity, we thought it was a good time to re-visit a few of those Zippy strips, as well as take a look at some never before seen pages from Griffith’s sketchbook composed during a 1990 trip to Pittsburgh. But first, here’s a couple where Zippy, Griffy and others note Pittsburgh’s “more enlightened and weirder” culture: Here’s a few (and there are many more) Zippy strips that are set in familiar Pittsburgh locations: Ritter’s Diner in Bloomfield. The Big Day Wedding & Event Center, Strip District. Charlie’s Diner (now known as Peppi’s, and also once known as Scotty’s, as well as Downtown Diner), Lincoln Highway. Glowing Sculpture Thing, PPG Place. In early June of 1990, Griffith visited Pittsburgh to take in the Thomas Rowlandson show at the Frick Art Museum. The images below are taken from sketches he made at the time. While in town, Griffith also spent some time at the historic Kennywood Amusement Park in West Mifflin, as seen below. Griffith, who arrived for that trip via the rail road, also sketched the train ride and station. “For me, Zippy is funniest when his craziness bumps up against the ‘real world’, which is why I put him in diners and have him talking to Bob’s Big Boy,” Griffith said in 2009. “It doesn’t get much more real than Pittsburgh, PA – it’s Zippy Country!” Hopefully he’ll find some additional examples of that “more enlightened and weirder” pop culture on his trip back here in April. Share this page: [...]

03/20/2017

Sally IngrahamMarch 19, 2017NewsSally here to bid farewell to Bernie Wrightson, cheer on Al Jaffee, and watch Patrick Kyle reinvent web comics (again!) – no lazy cartoonists to be seen here. May the rest of us scramble to keep up! ————————————————————————————————— Patrick Kyle cracked the code for Instagram comics last week. As the platform has developed, cartoonists have constantly experimented with what will work on Instagram, collectively settling on the 4 panel square as the ideal form and sparking something of a revival for 4 panel gag strip comics. When Instagram added a gallery view to the app, it only took Patrick Kyle a few days to figure out that you could finally make longer comics in one post using the gallery view. He then made a GREAT comic which is ideal for this platform – he maintained the 4 panel gag so the gallery view becomes the “page turn”, if you will, and the size, colors, and level of detail in the comic are perfect. See it on Instagram HERE. I look forward to seeing more cartoonists catch on to this! The evolution continues. ————————————————————————————————— Bernie Wrightson passed away this weekend. He is a beloved comics artist, best known for creating the character Swamp Thing for DC Comics with writer Len Wein, as well as Destiny, which Neil Gaiman later wrote into The Sandman series. The 50 pen illustrations he made for an edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein were a 7-year labor of love. He considered them to be among his most personal work, and they are widely viewed as one of the greatest achievements by any artist in the comics industry. Rest in peace Bernie – fans around the world will be curling up with their copies of Swamp Thing in the next few days and missing your spirit. Read a message from Bernie’s widow, Liz Wrightson, HERE. ————————————————————————————————— The shortlist for the 5th annual Cartoonist Studio Prize has been announced. The prize is given by the Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies. The two categories are best print and web comics and the winner receives $1,000. There are some great comics represented here – read more about the prize and check out the shortlist HERE. Last year’s winners were Carol Tyler for Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father and Boulet for I Want to Believe. ————————————————————————————————— The Comics Alliance digs into Michael DeForge‘s new book, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero (get a copy from Copacetic Comics HERE). In this black and white and PINK comic strip-turned-graphic novel, “DeForge has created an entire working ecosystem that gets teased out, explored, and mined for comic potential…“ “By the end of the book, everyone has changed, some quite drastically, others only slightly. No one has changed less between the first and final strips than Sticks Angelica herself, however, and her change is simply superficial: She gets a new hairstyle. The celebrity, the hero might be at the center of everything, but in DeForge’s comic, as in real life, the real story is what happens to everyone else.“ Read the rest of the review HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Al Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for the “longest-running cartoonist of all time.” Now 96 years old, he has drawn every single Fold-In featured in Mad magazine – that’s 52 years of Fold-Ins. “Whatever your last experience with Mad, you probably did the Fold-In on the back cover. Nobody reads a Mad without starting with the Fold-In. For the uninitiated—and if you’ve never heard of the Fold-In, your childhood must have been very bleak—it’s essentially a sight gag. It starts with a drawing and a question; something like, “Who conducted the most exhaustive Washington probe recently?” But then you fold the page together and a different image appears, along with a punch line that defies your expectations, something like “the president’s doctors.” ” – Vanity Fair Eric Spitznagel of Vanity Fair sat down with Al Jaffee to discover how he has kept going all these years, and what he’s learned about the process. “After 73 years of doing this, have you successfully proved the moral unreliability of adults? Well, I don’t think I’ve proved anything. I’m not an educator or a preacher. I think the important thing, in my line of work anyway, is that you’re helping the reader to think for himself. How so? It’s not just about getting a chuckle from them. When you expose hypocrisy or nonsense or plain ol’ stupidity, you want to do it in a way that makes the reader connect the dots. Don’t tell the joke, just hint at the joke. If you over-explain it, it’s no good.“ Read the rest of the interview HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Mars Bars Fabian Rangel, Jr. and Warwick Johnson Cadwell sat down to talk about their new comic Helena Crash, coming from IDW on Wednesday of this week. The story involves a world where coffee has been outlawed – a horror scenario that is just the beginning. More HERE. Check out a collection of punk music fliers made by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez over on Dangerous Minds. The I’m Drawn This Way: Cartoonists on Cartooning panel (recorded March 13th, 2017) is now available online to view in full – HERE. The Comics Journal remembers Skip Williamson (1944-2017). The latest Inkstuds podcast features Anna Haifisch in conversation with Rob McConnell – listen HERE. Street Angel gets invited to a birthday party – new comic by Jim Rugg up on Tapastic! What Things Do got an overhaul and there is a new Crickets 6 from Sammy Harkham and a Ganges 6 from Kevin Huizenga available for pre-order – shipping April 10th! ————————————————————————————————— Bring new energy to your comics game, see panels and color in a new way, discover the music in the structure of comics – check out thee Santoro School Handbook – 16 pages of comics-making gold! ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 3-20-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 3-20-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 3-20-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

9/28/2016

Posted on September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 by Juan Fernández

Juan here with your daily comics fix. I’m here with a spotlight on Spanish speaking artists and happenings. Hoy les traigo lo más fresco del mundo del cómic latinoamericano y español: Una discusión sobre la rabia en la polola; Crítica Tokyo Zombie, de Yusaku Hanakuma; los Old Shorts (2008-2014) – de Puño; anuncio de la Nueva la nueva exhibición de “Chicks on Cómics”; las novedades de Las Tetas Tristes; la historieta Chilena del siglo XXI; Borlo Comix Y MÁS!

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Escucha la nueva edición de @lapololapodcast, un podcast del cómic femenino con Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo: En este capítulo las chicas conversan acerca de la rabia, un lugar que muchas veces no se les permite habitar a las mujeres, porque se les enseña siempre a aguantar, a ser simpáticas, amorosas, a agradar, etc.

Hablamos de como la rabia nos puede servir de motor creativo o por otro lado, ser un pantano en donde quedarnos pegadas siendo víctimas de las circunstancias.

Póngale play!

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Old Shorts (2008-2014) – Puño

Dibujante español, Puño a publicado una colección de sus cómics por Gumroad! Son 86 paginas que recopilan 10 historietas dibujadas en inglés y digitalizadas por la primera vez. Recoloreadas tambien! This 86-paged collection comic is a digital compilation of 10 old short stories by Puño, in English & digital for the first time and recolored brand new for this edition.

Si les gusta es lo que hay bien dale una ojeada al curso de dibujo en Domestika de Puño! AQUI

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Crítica Tokyo Zombie, de Yusaku Hanakuma (Gerardo Vilches)

Si alguien quiere, desde luego puede ver un poso de denuncia social y política en Tokyo Zombie. Cuando saltamos en el tiempo al futuro, comprobamos que los supervivientes del apocalipsis zombie han creado una sociedad donde unos pocos privilegiados con dinero han esclavizado al resto de la sociedad. Como necesitan algo en lo que pasar el tiempo, han ideado una arena en la que luchadores esclavos se enfrentan entre sí y contra los zombies, que, por si fuera poco, nacen de la contaminación y la basura que genera la humanidad. El contexto de denuncia está claro, pero, no obstante, yo no creo que haya que darle más importancia de la que podemos darle a muchas otras historias con apocalipsis ecológicos de por medio, como excusa o trasfondo para desarrollar la acción y la violencia, que es lo verdaderamente divertido. Buscarle una coartada moral a lo que es maravillosamente bruto y cazurro me parece innecesario.

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Charlando co el Colectivo Tetas Tristes

Katherine Supnem, Katherina Salazar, Victoria Rubio hablaron con Radio JGM, la radio comunitaria que transmite desde la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Chile, en la comuna de Ñuñoa.

La organización femenina sube historietas constantemente y además, asisten a diversas ferias o exposiciones para dar a conocer sus cómics. Pero también, generan convocatorias para que mujeres o transgéneros puedan compartir sus dibujos sobre temas como aborto, acoso y masturbación femenina.

De momento, invitan a tod@s que envíen imágenes texto cómics sobre lo que les da #Vergüenza. Podéis ver todas las contribuciones que Las Tetas Tristes ya han recibido en su website: www.tetastristes.tumblr.com/

tumblr_oe575vutld1u9q6sdo1_1280 — Me da vergüenza el olvido, tanto en mi propia historia personal como en la historia de mi país. Aporte al tema #Vergüenza dibujado por Supnem

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Chicks on comics: “Long distance relationship” / “Relación a larga distancia”

Quiero compartir estas buenas noticias sobre una nueva exhibición de cómics – Por primera vez en Fundación Proa, se presenta el colectivo “Chicks on comics”, integrado por 8 mujeres historietistas de Argentina, Colombia, Alemania, Holanda, Brasil e Inglaterra, quienes desde 2008 exploran los recursos narrativos del comic como medio de comunicación e intercambio. Utilizando plataformas virtuales el grupo produce diálogos dibujados, publicaciones y exhibiciones, para dar visibilidad a esta diversidad cultural, y promover al debate sobre las disciplinas afines a la historieta y sus diversos públicos. Te digo que va a ser increíble!

Diciembre 2016 – Marzo 2017

Fundación PROA
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929
La Boca, Caminito
[C1169AAD] Buenos Aires
Argentina

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El programa oficial de VIÑETAS DEL FIN DEL MUNDO 2016

Entre el 6 y el 8 de octubre el Centro Cultural de España en Santiago acogerá la 5º versión del Festival Viñetas del Fin del Mundo, organizado por Ergocomics y Narrativa Gráfica. El festival busca dar cuenta de la actual y abundante producción de narrativa gráfica chilena con sus hitos, problemáticas y proyecciones.

Entre el 21 de septiembre y el 22 de octubre en el CCE se exhibirá la muestra Historieta Chilena del Siglo XXI (2012-2016).

Si yo estuviera en Chile, no me perdería esta exhibición y la programación que van a tener en octubre!

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BORLO COMIX

Durante un encuentro con el gran Alexis Ziritt en SPX, Ziritt me conto sobre el dibujante Venezolano, C. A. Etcheverry y su obra MEGA-underground, Borlo Comix. Nunca había oído hablar ni de Etcheheverry ni de los cómix underground venezolanos… Por supuesto, gracias a Alexis, me puse a investigar y joder que joya mas underground encontré!!!!

Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1979, raised between city and jungle, Etcheverry takes the mystery of both environments and places them in his art and comics. Having been influenced by artists and storytellers such as Windsor McCay, Tanino Liberatore, Phillippe Druillet, A Jodorowsky, and R. Crumb, Etcheverry has developed a unique storytelling style alongside his fantastical illustrations. He came to Los Angeles, CA at age 23, invited by the late Silverlake “jewel”, Ghettogloss Gallery to show his comics blown up on canvases. With much interest from the art and comic world, Etcheverry ended up moving to the neighborhood of Silverlake, in which he has lived and off for the last 14 years. He has dabbled in fashion, film, print, animation, music, (you name it), but it is only recently that he has compiled his comix to present his original character “Borlo” to the world in a printed anthology.

Visit http://www.borlocomix.com to learn more and to dive into the world of Borlo! You can buy the collected Borlo Comix here. Get hep to BORLO COMIX!

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Portraits – Connor Willumsen.

Este libro de 16 páginas bellamente impreso (por WestCan – que también imprimio el Manual de la Escuela Santoro) de retratos del gran Connor Willumsen está disponible para -pedido. Una edición de 500.

Dalé click AQUI para pedir tu copia!

http://auction.comicsworkbook.com/2016/08/18/portraits-by-connor-willumsen-pre-order/

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hasta la próxima!
Juan

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09/20/2017

Juan FernándezSeptember 20, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con Amanda Baeza; Entreviñetas 8; Marco Toxico en La Polola; José Muñoz y Maria Luque; Gaspar Pujadas y Rodrigo Vargas;#GRAFMAD2017; Mireia Pérez entrevista a Richard McGuire; y los tebeos de Cómics Workbook! ————————————————————————————————— Amanda Baeza y las canciones dibujadas Gabriela Blanco nos invita a reflexionar sobre Su obra de narraciones autobiográficas en El Espectador. Sus historias son fragmentadas, alejadas de la estructura secuencial y más cercanas a la simultaneidad, y lo son porque responden a una representación de sus recuerdos, desde adentro, sin inicio, nudo y desenlace ordenados, así como recordamos todos. Su intención es lograr hacer sentir al lector lo mismo que ella sintió en aquellos instantes, ponerlo en su lugar. Le importa más el qué representó para ella que lo que realmente sucedió. Y es en ese punto donde Amanda emerge como vanguardia: cuando modifica las formas convencionales para contar historias y las reajusta a lo que realmente le interesa contar, porque cree en la empatía como un recurso más poderoso de conexión con el otro que la ficción misma. Léanlo todo AQUI. ————————————————————————————————— ENTREVIÑETAS 8 – BOGOTA La primera parte del gran festival Entreviñetas tendra lugar este fin de semana, del 20 al 24 de Septiembre. Si todavia no lo saben, el Festival Entreviñetas es el evento del cómic y el dibujo más influyente en la escena latinoamericana contemporanea. No se pierdan toda la programación! Pueden ver los horarios AQUÍ. Talleres, ferias, charlas y entrevistas – habra de todo, sobre TODO! ————————————————————————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! Las chicas conversan con Marco Toxico, les contó de su vida, sus inspiraciones, su punto de quiebre, y motivación por hacer lo que le gusta en esta vida. Conversan acerca de referentes, la monstruosidad como tema y mucho más. Lo que va del cómic argentino: Martín Pérez escribe en las #Entreviñetas de El Espectador acerca de la obra de José Muñoz y Maria Luque Entrevista Sacapunta N°1 – Gaspar Pujadas + Entrevista Sacapunta N°2 – Rodrigo Vargas Entrevista de Mireia Pérez a Richard McGuire en CuCo 5. Abierta la convocatoria para participar en #GRAFMAD2017 ¡Hasta el 16 de octubre! TIK TOK Comics os presenta una nueva entrega de DOMINGO, la serie conversacional de Muriel Bellini ¡Disfrutadla! ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 9-20-2017 – by Gabriella Tito Share this page: [...]

04/06/2016

Juan FernándezApril 6, 2016NewsJuan here with your mid-week comics news fix. A pair of interesting comics events in the United States, MoCCA Awards of Excellence, Mari Naomi, Gabrielle Bell, Leslie Stein, Retrofit Comics Kickstarter in the final stretch, Rosarium Publishing launches its Indiegogo, the Picturebox Inc. bibliography. Let’s do this. ————————————————————————————————— Small Press events this weekend PMF 7 Building on six consecutive years of growing print celebrations, Baltimore’s Open Space gallery will present PMF VII, the Seventh Annual Publications & Multiples Fair, taking place April 9th and 10th, 2016, from 12 pm – 6 pm each day, at the Baltimore Design School, 1500 Barclay St. This annual exposition provides the opportunity to peruse, purchase, and discuss artist publications, prints, and objects produced in multiple. There’ll be over 130 local and national artists, and on-site programming all weekend. The fair is free and open to the public. There’s a killer line up of really raw work. Meghan Turbitt, Lala Albert, Lale Westving and Aidan Koch will be there among the throngs 😉 Learn more here. SPACE 2016 Now coming up on it’s 17th year, S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo) is the midwest’s longest running exhibition of small press,creator owned and art comics. And Columbus’ longest locally owned and operated COMICS show of any kind. Long live the Rustbelt. Read more here. ————————————————————————————————— Gabrielle Bell Instagram In the age of fractured social media, it’s important to know who posts where or you’ll miss out on the beautiful writing or drawing they might do. Now you’ve got no excuse to be missing Bell’s off the cuff drawings. You can follow her here. ————————————————————————————————— Cheerleader by Mari Naomi Mari Naomi’s got a new one for you via Buzz Feed. Lot’s of eyes sure to get on this one. Smart use of the scroll and subtle visual punctuation makes this a satisfying look back on an unexpected friendship. Take a trip down memory lane and read it here! ————————————————————————————————— Retrofit Kickstarter – Last 2 Rounds Retrofit Comics is in its last TWO days of their Kickstarter campaign! They’re in the last rounds of their bout. You can help them win this fight. Support them to make it happen. The crop of books they’re currently publishing is really special. It includes titles by the likes of James Kochalka (Elf Cat in Love), the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, Eleanor Davis with her an offering (Libby’s Dad), and Kaeleigh Forsyth and Alabaster Pizzo with a team up on Hellbound (here’s a process post from them about the “raw material” the book was sourced from). Also among the comics that may get loosed on the world, should the Kickstarter make it to the stretch goals, are works by Anya Davidson and Tyler Landry. Please support Retrofit Comics by pitching some funds their way, or helping to spread the word.Less than $2,000 left to go. Check out the Kickstarter and make it happen HERE! ————————————————————————————————— Time Clock Leslie Stein is back with the newest installment of The Eye of the Majestic Creature is back! Here’s a link to see some of the pages Stein has posted on tumblr, there’ll be more soon until Time Clock is out. You can snag a copy by preordering from Fantagraphics Books. The book will be out in June. ————————————————————————————————— Rosarium Publishing launches an Indiegogo As Retrofit wraps up it’s big push, ROSARIUM PUBLISHING begins to rev their engines. Rosarium Publishing is a publishing house founded by Bill Campbell that is a space of resistance to the erasure of diverse voices by a saturated public sphere of massive hegemonic media giants pushing the authors they want to the forefront of the market place.f …Rosarium Publishing was started with an idea; it was not, however, started with a lot of money. This has all been funded by the publisher’s day job. So, with the rapid growth we’ve been experiencing, it is now time for us to move away from print-on-demand, which, in the long run, is too expensive for any publisher to rely on, and have to move to offset printing. – Bill Campbell Read more about their campaign here. ————————————————————————————————— Awards of Excellence at MoCCA Fest Chosen by a jury of professional peers including Senior Editor at First Seond Books Calista Brill, artist Cliff Chiang, Editorial Director Charles Kochman, artist Mark Newgarden, and cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Lauren Weinstein. Awards of Excellence are given out to recognize the most outstanding work on view at the festival created by an independent artist. This Award of Excellence year’s winners include: Glynnis Fawkes, “Alle Ego” Pat Dorian, “Lon Chaney Talks Part 2” Shreyas R. Krishnan, “Becoming Rosie” Kate Lacour, “Vivisectionary II” R. Sikoryak, “iTunes Terms and Conditions” The SOI will host this year’s MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence winners in an exhibit featuring original art from their award-winning books. The exhibit will run from May 06-June 11th. More information here. For a full list of the works awarded recognition by the Society of Illustrators at MoCCA Fest 2016 hop on over to Comics Beat. ————————————————————————————————— The Classics The closing up of Picturebox Inc. isn’t news to anyone but it should never go forgotten. Nadel and company created an incredible publishing legacy and it is of vital importance that comics makers young and old understand the scope of what Picturebox accomplished with comics. Here’s a list of their bibliography so you can dig into the raw material yourself: Study up on the classics. If you can’t find what you want at Copacetic Comics, check your local library. You can thank Bill Boichel and your librarian in advance. Share this page: [...]

04/25/2018

Juan FernándezApril 25, 2018los Cómics / NewsMuestra Mostra, Ivan Kreilkamp, Stina Sandström, Frank Santoro —————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: ~ en Español y “sometimes in English” ~ —————————————— Larga vida a los fanzines: impresiones alternativas Muestra Mostra, llevada a cabo en Córdoba (Argentina) réune las obras de muchas en el mundo del fanzinismo feminista. Javier Mattio: Expresión material, múltiple y subterránea del hazlo-tú-mismo, el fanzine (literalmente, “revista de aficionado”) vive hoy un auge que es también una expansión de su usual destino de fotocopia alternativa: el fanzine llega a librerías y museos, se celebran festivales, ferias, talleres y charlas en su nombre, se los archiva en “fanzinotecas”, se convierten en preciados y requeridos objetos artísticos. El fenómeno se concreta en Córdoba en exponentes como la actual “Muestra Mostra” del Museo Genaro Pérez, el Festival Ctrl P y la feria La Batalla en Casa Trece (donde también opera la fanzinoteca más grande del país) o las historietas-zines que publica el sello Buen Gusto Ediciones. —————————————— In Praise of Pulp Ivan Kreilkamp: No fan of the genre can complain about such a turn of events—and yet, surely something is also always lost in this kind of upward-mobility success story. Alison Bechdel observed a few years ago that “one of the reasons I became a cartoonist was so that I could write and draw free from the kind of critical scrutiny that I was sure would wither me if I dared to enter the lists of the fine art or literary writing worlds. Comics was a dark, disreputable place … You could do what you wanted here.” —————————————— The Carnival Grotesque: Representations of femininity in Swedish feminist comics Stina Sandström: This dissertation explores the mainstream success of a new wave of Swedish female cartoonists borne out of the feminist zine community between 2004 and 2016. These cartoonists have contributed to a change in perception in Sweden about comics as a medium and their potential to introduce current feminist discourse into mainstream media and reach a wider public. The study identifies a commonality in these comics of the parodic and liberating humour of the carnivalesque; a literary tendency proposed by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakthin which expresses frustration and discontent with the structure of society through a certain ritualistic humour which in the context of these comics expose dominant gender structures and offer new ways of performing femininity. Despite working independently for the most part, the power of their work lies in the way they expand on (even imitate) each other, often picking up on a specific subject or area of critique where another left off, with the effect of combining their individual voices into one great voice. The phenomena is investigated through a series of questions: What Swedish political and cultural preconditions allowed for these usually marginalised feminist zine makers to become part of popular culture? How do they communicate feminism in ways that appeal to a mainstream audience? How, if at all, does their work influence or improve women’s lives in Sweden? —————————————— Nello Studio di Frank Santoro Which instruments and tools do you use to draw? I do not use a computer. I do not know how to use Photoshop. Why teach the machine how to do my job? Everything is analog. I draw on conventional office paper and use conventional office supplies essentially. Pentel rolling writers which were the first rollerball pen. Alex Toth told me to use that pen. And I use color pencils and markers. Mostly Berol Prismacolor brand. As Art Spigelman says “it is more like writing” in that sense if one uses “dry” media. One of my jobs as a young man was to be an assistant to oil painters and I enjoy not having to have a separate studio in which to make art. Cartoonists are lucky that we can be relatively clean in that way. I do use the airbrush. That’s fun. But it is water based. I use the airbrush mostly for background paintings that I am hired to do by Dash Shaw. But I also did a Silver Surfer story for Marvel with the airbrush. The airbrush is fun because it is like drawing with colored air. And it is water based paint. —————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-25-2018 – Gabriella Tito Joanie and Jordie – 4-25-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

04/02/2018

Caleb OrecchioApril 1, 2018NewsCaleb Orecchio here with a nice little Ditko story, and other news. ————————————————————————————————— Aw man, lookit that splash page. I was digging through my back issues looking through my Kull the Destroyers I haven’t really looked at yet. Specifically, Kull the Destroyer #15 from 1974. It’s not a particularly interesting story. Those comics usually aren’t unless they feature some strange, spirited creature. So I flip through the entire issue, kind of disappointed, when I come across an interesting Ditko/Lee short story at the end. It’s a five-pager (six if you count the title page). I had a suspicion that this was a reprint of some back-up story to an old Kirby monster comic. After some digging, I found I was more or less right. “Help,” originally debuted in Strange Tales #94 in 1962. The story is real simple. A guy answers his phone and the person on the other line seems to desperately need help. The mysterious caller is supposedly trapped in some dark place and fears his death. Our hero doesn’t believe him, and thinks it’s a gag. Yet, stays on the phone in case it’s real. The tension is actually relatively convincing. It’s classic Ditko. He had knack for making clever little surreal stories that ended with a neat little twist in the last panel. No I’m not going to spoil it for you, you have to look for it yourself. Go. Go to your local place where back issues lay dorment, waiting to be mined. Drink from the fountain of newsprint and ink and mylar packaging and dusty cardboard boxes. Go True Believer, go. ————————————————————————————————— if you don’t know, now you know According to Don Harriosn at Richmond Magazine, Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden will be at Virginia Commonwealth University to give a lecture today! Looks like you’ll have to register if you want to go. Details here. I somehow missed Charles Hatfield’s review of the latest King-Cat collection, From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino, over at TCJ.com. I always enjoy reading Matt Seneca articles on comics. Rob Clough visited the Center for Cartoon Studies. Hey look, a popular comic strip. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-2-18 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Share this page: [...]

02/07/2018

Juan FernándezFebruary 7, 2018los Cómics / NewsJuan empieza el día con La Matadragones de Jaime Hernandez, La llegada de la Brigada, y una gira desde Lone Mountain! ————————————————————————————————— The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America – Jaime Hernandez with an introduction by F. Isabel Campoy In case, you’ve missed it, Jaime Hernandez is bringing a fresh take on timeless stories in his new collection of folktales,The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America . In classic TOON Books fashion, there’s a quality bibliography and appendix for those eager readers looking to dig deeper into these stories. As a great treat, it’s being released in Spanish and English editions, both paperback and hardcover. Guided by the classic works of F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada, Hernandez’s first book for young readers brings the sights and stories of Latin America to a new generation of graphic novel fans around the world. Want to see how it all comes together? TOON Books has uploaded a nice selection of preview pages for you to dig into on their site. ————————————————————————————————— Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! “¡¡Último capítulo de la segunda temporada!! Y nos despedimos con una gran sorpresa; en abril publicaremos el primer número de nuestra revista de cómic hecho por mujeres, (¡al fin!) se llamará “Brígida” por Isabel Molina, Pati Aguilera, Marcela Trujillo(Maliki) y Sol Díaz.Les contamos de los detalles, las primeras colegas invitadas que nos acompañarán, las ideas para el futuro y mucho, mucho más. Además nos acompañan unos audios de un Patreon amigo, y un reporte de Panchulei desde Angoulême.” ————————————————————————————————— On a note of personal, North American interest: John Porcellino will be doing a small tour in support of his new D+Q book, From Lone Mountain (available March 20!). Please see below for dates. (Yes, Pittsburgh, lucky you, of course Porcellino will be stopping by Copacetic Comics.) Though I have some of the zines that this book brings together, I’m eagerly awaiting this collection of comics and stories by Porcellino. If anything, having this body of work together makes a nice package for non-comics readers to unravel into their lives. From Lone Mountain collects stories from Porcellino’s zine King-Cat—John enters a new phase of his life, as he remarries and decides to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday. ————————————————————————————————— Collected from the thousands of pages of material that Frank has left scattered all over the digital landscape, these 4 PDF collections contain Frank’s best writing on comics and comics making from the past decade. Theory and process, reviews and discoveries, journeys both physical and spiritual. Check out the “Best of Frank Santoro” PDF collections, available HERE! ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 02-07-18 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 02-07-18 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

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