From this literature blog I have tried in some posts, to treat the comic as part of literature. In some cases it has been unavoidable, given the need to communicate proposals that have deeply caught my attention.
Perhaps for this reason, I have noticed an article published in ABC that tells us about the ten best comics of 2011. In it, it is taken for granted that the graphic novel has been consolidated throughout the 2011, despite experts admitting that there is still a long way to go.
Here you have the list. The selection of comics that make us from that article.
"Plaza Elíptica" (Ediciones Ponent): It is the seventh installment of the adventures of the popular Captain Torrezno and has been the great winner of the year by winning the National Comic Award 2011. Through this character, a lonely and sad man who spends his days bathed in alcohol, the cartoonist Santiago Valenzuela from San Sebastian reflects on controversial issues such as philosophy or religion.
- "Nemesis" (Panini):What if the most powerful and intelligent man was a villain? There is no one who can beat him, he has no rival. He is Nemesis, the protagonist of the new comic by screenwriter Mark Millar and cartoonist Steve McNiven, known for stories like "Kick-Ass" or "Civil War." A groundbreaking comic, winner of the Best International Work award at the Expocómic 2011 fair, and which has sold 13.000 copies in 3 months.
- "Ultimate Comics. Thor" (Panini):A graphic novel by Jonathan Hickman and Carlos Pacheco, winner of the Best National Cartoonist award in the last edition of the Expocómic fair. "Ultimate Comics. Thor" has sold 11.000 copies and invites comic book lovers to travel back in time to finally learn about the origin of the Norse god, a secret jealously guarded until now.
- "Five thousand kilometers per second" (Sins entido): Winner of the award for the best graphic novel of 2011 at the International Comic Fair of Angoulême (France), the work is a free adaptation of the novel by Arthur Schnitzler. The excellent handling of the color palette by Italian Manuele Fior ("Miss Else") makes this novel a true visual jewel.
- "Memories of a man in pajamas" (Astiberri):Paco Roca, 2008 National Comic Award winner, laughs at human stupidity in this hilarious autobiographical tale, which he published in the Valencian newspaper Las Provincias as comic strips from March 2010 to July 2011 and which he now compiles to continue causing the laughter to thousands of people.
- "Vignettes for a crisis" (Mondadori): The undisputed genius of graphic humor, Andrés Rábago García, El Roto, ironically portrays the global economic crisis in this compilation of his best cartoons in the newspaper El País. An outstanding book that begins with a real estate tsunami and ends with a hopeful "it gets dark, therefore it will dawn."
- "Yes we camp! Traces for a (r) evolution" (Dibbuks):Almost 50 journalists, writers, intellectuals and comic masters such as Sergio Bleda, Enrique Flores, Paco Roca or Carlos Giménez put their talent at the service of the 15-M movement in this book that recovers the spirit of uncertainty and malaise that was experienced in Spain during the days before the last municipal elections.
- "Bakuman" (Editorial Standard):It is the new manga saga from the creators of the revolutionary "Death Note", the Japanese Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Although the first two issues were published in 2010, this year the next five installments have been released. It is the manga comic that talks about manga, a true revolution that has sold thousands of copies around the world.
- "Habibi" (Astiberri):Craig Thompson once again immerses himself in the world of comics to present "Habibi", an essential and heartbreaking graphic novel that has sold more than 5.000 copies and that takes the reader to a world of deserts and harems, to tell the story of Dodola and Zam , two refugee slaves united by chance.
- "Los Garriris" (Sins Entido):The cartoonist Javier Mariscal compiles the drawings that he made during the XNUMXs for publications such as El Rollo Enmascarado or El Víbora, and now rescues them in this collection, the artist's most intimate and personal. EFE lsc / ps