I’m launching a book (in Spanish) in Buenos Aires, which will be presented tomorrow, Thursday, April 9th, at 6:30 pm at the Comics and Graphic Humor Center of the very brutalist National Library (Agüero 225, CABA). In the hustle and bustle of organizing and inviting people left and right, I forgot to announce the event on this blog. How curious that something with a still so uncomfortably contemporary name has already become an abandoned habit that’s hard to exercise. I’ll try to improve in this regard.
But what is this book? It includes eight comics that attempt to embrace the everyday realism of spaceships, cookie commercials, medieval monks, girls who don’t remember filming a cookie commercial, and Soviet farmers. Most (but not all) of these comics I’ve already made available in english in little zines you can still get, by the way.
These days, the book begins its almost artisanal journey to bookstores and, with luck, might find a reader. I’m incredibly curious to see what happens from then on, but that’s no longer up to me.
Hopefully, one day, this book will be available in English, too.