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El coronel tiene alguien que le escribe muy de vez en cuando

Por Caloi (1948-2012)

September 4 is, in Argentina, both Comics Day and Immigrants Day. There's a very direct line that starts with me reading comics and ends up with me becoming an immigrant. Someone is out there making a comic today, having no clue how it might shape somebody else's life. Cheers!

“López gives us just enough to grab hold of and trusts the reader to fill the gap. To join in the act of imagination.” 🤗

Un poco se ailmenta del chisme, pero también es lo opuesto a las redes sociales: cada idea se sostiene hasta el límite de la duración.

Catching up with the latest trends in literature. Turns out it’s good! 👍

Ticonderoga and Sgt Kirk are two westerns by Oesterheld and Pratt. Two very different approaches to the possible (but difficult) relationship between native people and white men. One youthful and awed, the other adult and tragic. Both marked by institutional violence, neither published in english.

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You can now buy some of my comics at Brooklyn’s own Unnameable Books!

If you’re gonna be staring at screen for a long time, you might as well stare at GOOD screen for 300 pages!

Every time I start a new comic feels like I need to relearn it all from scratch. // Cada vez que agarro el pincel es la paradoja de Zenón: toda página es un milagro imposible.

English has been rekindling itself to Rachel Ingalls (just like Spanish has been, a little earlier, with Sarah Gallardo). Pearl Killers is a book waiting for New Directions to do its thing (and, also, desperately waiting for a Spanish translation), but it’s still easy to come by second hand.

I’ve enjoyed every Quentin Dupieux movie I’ve watched, but Daaaaaalí! is the one I feel went deeper. Also, every single actor playing every instance of Dalí makes something that should be an uphill battle (Dali was already an actor playing a character) feel like a game of joy.

I’ve been internet-lurking @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social and @jesselonergan.bsky.social’s work for a while, but haven’t had the chance to actually seat with their work (yet). Now this is announced. More publishers should follow @bulgilhanpress.com’s lead and plan their releases around MY curiosity!

Big, Little and Far by (American treasure) Jim Cohen is currently playing here in New York at the IFC Center. I got to watch it almost a year ago and I still think about it.

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“El joven Mac Genio” me encantaba. Sería EL momento para que alguien se ponga a publicar libros con las historietas de los 90s de Billiken y Anteojito…

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Here’s a very nice review of my latest comic! “Fran is becoming a master (if he’s not there already) of depicting the quiet moments and not taking anything at face value.” 🤗 opticalsloth.com?p=29121

This morning I reread @tomgauld.bsky.social’s Moon Cop as a metaphor for making comics. Haven’t read it since it came out. Still great.

May-September. Two mangas about finding the spark for making comics. One at the beginning, the other one after a lot has already gone through (both for authors and characters). Feels like BL Metamorphosis didn't really enter the radar "in my circles"? Fascinating to read them together.

I like Aira’s idea that a short story happened and a novel happens. I can think of more (great) graphic novels (in English) that work closer to a short story than a novel, but the literary model of a lot of cartoonists (in English) is the contemporary novel (in English).

Really interesting conversation touching on some things I have been thinking a lot about lately

Open debate: Is this one guilty of forced exposition? Only one way to find out…

poster and shirt design for Ed Schrader’s Music Beat in 2022

Yes.

Two thick books that should but will never happen: Enrique Cristobal's Comics with Oesterheld and Robin Wood. Dos libros que nunca se publicarán, pero deberían: Las historietas de Enrique Cristóbal con Oesterheld y Robin Wood.

A very close read on a great book. If there’s one book I would like us to be discussing a lot more is this one.

“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”

Get my comics directly shipped from Spain! The Fran López Imperium begins it’s transcontinental phase.

This great (and still valid) actionable advice is just an example of the kind of life changing nuggets of truth you’d have access to if you were to hire me as a life coach.

If you find yourself in NYC you should stop whatever you’re doing, take yourself to Desert Island, get my comics, read them the minute you step outside the store (in the street, yes, it’s perfect reading weather today) and then write to tell me exactly how you feel about them.

Kind of obsessed with these zero views informative YouTube videos about SPX. AI really is bringing forth a golden era of content!

@sglidden.bsky.social is not around here very often, so please share around if you're inclined! (I've seen these portraits IRL and can confirm they're beautiful)

In a different (better) world, I'm an editor for a (great) kids comics magazine.

Después del éxito de “Building Stories es 13 Rue del Percebe pero sin chistes”, nos complace presentar un pequeño adeñanto del segundo tomo de la colección “Ibáñez, el adelantado”…

One of two paintings included in the summer show “Hot Spell” opening at AuxierKline this Friday June 6th from 6 to 8 PM! The show is up through the summer. Annunciation 12 by 9 inches Acrylic on linen-wrapped panel

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Magnetismo total / Brilliant acting

An alternate history of English-language comics in which Akira Toriyama’s Manga Workshop was published in the USA in 1992, before Understanding Comics. Just think of the consequences! Chris Ware’s 400 page book trying to prove Toriyama was wrong about “action”!

Madrid: se rumorea por ahí que si van a la feria del libro y la buscan a @tanaoshima.bsky.social, se pueden encontrar con algo de la historieta más intrigante que se está haciendo en Nueva York. Y también con las mías: si alguien en Madrid venía muriéndose de ganas de leerme en inglés, ¡es ahora!

Justo estos días un “proyecto secreto” me hizo pensar en esa colección de historietas “Nuevo Mundo” que hicieron para los 5 siglos. Tal vez despareja e irremediablemente española, pero: Alberto y Enrique Breccia, Lito Fernández, Max, Catalayud, Robin Wood, Matotti, Muñoz… ¡qué lista de nombres!

Been thinking about what makes a good opening page for a comic. I've decided these are particularly strong, but I'm not sure why I think they work. Why do I think what I think?

You can now get my latest comic (along with the previous ones) over at @dominocomics.bsky.social’s very impressive online store. I mean, look at all those (mostly) self published (exclusively) unique comics. Literally something for everyone, I dare you not to find something that would move you.

¿Viniste al teléfono esperando encontrarte, de casualidad, con alguna conexión algo imprecisa entre un gran poeta peruano y una dudosa sitcom inglesa del siglo 17? ¡Hoy es tu día de suerte, campeón! franlopez.info/poesia-perua...

Did you come to your phone hoping to casually run into some loose connection between a great Peruvian poet and some non-existing English set in the 17th Century? You're in luck! franlopez.info/peruvian-poe...