Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Mystérieuse matin, midi et soir - El Eternauta

5 comments:

  1. Hey, this is great.

    I am surprised by the "syncopated" (does this word exist ?) structure of "El eternauta", as I thought it would be more regular. The interesting detail is that there are fewer and fewer different colors as the story goes further, which is a quite good summary for what happens to most of the characters...

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  2. Note: I don't know whether El Eternauta was published in english, but if you read spanish or french, it's a very good "feuilletonesque" Argentinian Comics from the fifties. There is a shorter version drawn by Breccia, but this one is by Solano Lopez (and Oesterheld wrote the scenario of both).

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  3. Yeah, this is awesome. I don't get the El Eternauta reference - can someone explain this for me. Is what I am seeing here a completed comic by ALEX CHAUVEL? Or does it come from a longer work? Or is it simply referencing another comic? Sorry for being such a dumbass - but I am keen to get more out of this if anyone can be bothered unpacking it for me.

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  4. These comics by Alex are a sort of "synthetic summary" of comics by other autors. (He posted other pieces in the same vein a few months ago.) He starts from a comic, and then develops a "color code" according to the characters that do appear in each panel. So, this is really like a "rewriting" of these comics in a purely syntactical form, but it's interesting to see that some patterns already appear with so few information, and that was what I was refering to in my comment.

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  5. Many thanks for clearing that up for me. What an excellent concept for a series of abstract comics. I really love this work Alex. Both aesthetically and conceptually compelling.

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