Alison Bechdel is on tour, too bad she isn’t coming to this side of the pond. Last week she presented her 2nd and newest graphic memoir “Are you my mother?“, diving once again into the deepest links that …
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Crumb, From the Underground to Genesis @ MAM – Paris
I’d love to know what Mr. Crumb thinks about French & especially about Parisian women, probably too skinny for his own female prototype, no big boobs, no big muscled legs or massive butts… they’re hardly noticeable for heaven’s …
Art Spiegelman @ Pompidou – Paris
Starting one week ago Spiegelman got his own mini-exhibition @ the most-visited library in central Paris (the one within the Pompidou contemporary arts building and for which you usually have to queue for 1h min on peak times): …
↓ Goya by Diego Olmos
Diego Olmos is mostly known in the US & Spain for his works with DC comics (he’s behind the Supernatural adaptation of the TV series, or Batman in Barcelona, Catwoman.. for ex), but from time to time he finds himself producing his very own projects like the gorgeous H2Octopus.
Presented last Monday Diego unveiled “Goya”, his very own personal view on one of the the best-known Spanish painters… Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. He’s decided to focus on probably the most intriguing and perturbing part of his life… towards the end of his life, when he was half-dealf, his wife had recently died and while tormented and going mental he decides to capture his worst nightmares.
Goya by Diego Olmos
Olmos suggests an alternative explanation to all those dark paintings and disfigured monsters… apparently Satan came to visit Goya one day, as a self-confessed admirer the devil asks Goya for a portrait… an offer Paco will decline with a not-very-positive outcome as you can imagine… Satan would appear himself every night in Goya’s dreams to torture him with horrific images…. the images we love the most from the painter and possibly the ones who’ve made him world famous.
He was many times accused during his life of being Frenchified
Published under Ediciones B (Spanish only for now boooho) Goya will get you to the phantasmagoric world of smiley witches, witty devils and anthropomorphic animals… maybe you should give it a go.