This aperiodic his increasingly usual blog is read and review the work that won the National Comic Award. So, late on time, the review of Blind Snakes .
Felipe Hernández Cava is one of the biggest names in English script, witness and protagonist of the great, but ultimately fleeting, a generation that do
undermined the English comic in the transition, you know, that of the Giménez, Usero , Fernandez, Sio, BEA, ... So I scraped the top of this story, more like a very novice screenwriter of a veteran. That is, you see a cartoon with a New York landscape and a support text to: "New York, 1939." In the following vignette other supporting text reads "While in Europe is about to unleash a war of unpredictable consequences, I just arrived in New York. As if the slightest doubt, the last text on that page reassures us: "But they say that New York is well into summer."
Something tells you this story happening in New York.
Well, actually passes between New York and Spain. Some scenarios, a time marked by the history and countless films and black literature. And this, which to some may be its greatest virtue is For me, its great defect, the attempt to put pressure on the history of all possible topics related to this environment: scenarios slumdogs Yorkers, Guernica, communism in the U.S., censorship gubernbamental, the legendary revolutionary Bolshevik, the epic of the International Brigades, detective stories, the militia that is entwined with the U.S. brigade, fighting between the various Republican factions, torture as a method of confession, the desperation of the fighting that known loser, the brutality of the fascist enemy, the fascination with the Savoy Jazz, ...
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The typical virus spreads in the text: "A man shouts. And whose pain is transformed into a denunciation of all who prefer the argument of force, war to peace, aristocracy to democracy.'s Cry the weak. " Topic and poorly constructed.
The argument which are pasted all these elements is a character A character chasing a B chasing a character C. There is a death to avenge and one of the surprises of history to see who is dead. The other surprise is that you're not sure really why kill the dead. And then there's a final twist when you find out what is really one of the characters, but that resolution did not paste or glue to the rest of the story.
I do that this time has been awarded more on the intent to result more ingredients that the final dish. I can not forget one of the main ingredients, the drawing of Bartolomé Seguí, raw and rough, with a mastery of lighting really shines, but his tendency to caricature does not do any favors hodgepodge of topics.
So this time it has made me very happy the National Award. One of three is not bad.
And please someone tell me why snakes were blind, now I've read it twice and I heard.
topic
The typical virus spreads in the text: "A man shouts. And whose pain is transformed into a denunciation of all who prefer the argument of force, war to peace, aristocracy to democracy.'s Cry the weak. " Topic and poorly constructed.
The argument which are pasted all these elements is a character A character chasing a B chasing a character C. There is a death to avenge and one of the surprises of history to see who is dead. The other surprise is that you're not sure really why kill the dead. And then there's a final twist when you find out what is really one of the characters, but that resolution did not paste or glue to the rest of the story.
I do that this time has been awarded more on the intent to result more ingredients that the final dish. I can not forget one of the main ingredients, the drawing of Bartolomé Seguí, raw and rough, with a mastery of lighting really shines, but his tendency to caricature does not do any favors hodgepodge of topics.
So this time it has made me very happy the National Award. One of three is not bad.
And please someone tell me why snakes were blind, now I've read it twice and I heard.
