Noah Ramon
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 10 June. The worlds of comics and music share an viewers and the frequent objective of entertaining and awakening the creativeness. They have been doing this for the reason that fifties of the final century when this mixture appeared within the United States as a fleeting phenomenon with none future or pretensions.
Some time later the present reached Spain the place the principle consultant of this combine has been the cartoonist Francis Capadevilla, referred to as Max, who’s at present in Tenerife. The National Comedy Award was invited by the organizers of Entre Viñas y Viñetas, which has been held for fifteen years within the municipality of La Laguna.
Max participated in publications corresponding to El Vibora, Cairo and Metal Hurlant, which he changed into genuine platforms the place he mirrored this crossover of types.
Experts consider that his predominant work will probably be “Peter Punk”, a cartoon based mostly on Walt Disney’s drawings, however approached with a punk angle and aesthetic, with a Tinkerbell that resembles singer Siouxsie. . The experiment ran for 3 full albums.
The Canarian knowledgeable on the earth of comics, Patricio Ducha refers to writers who use sure songs for inspiration.
“There are cases of cartoonists who have thought of a soundtrack for a certain comic that they have created before, then writers who make comics based on the world of music or parts of it, who have adapted songs to comics and vice versa. Or related to the life of a comedian or a group”, he confirms to EFE.
Quoting Max once more, Ducha recollects that he labored with Juan Perro, the alter ego of Radio Futura chief Santiago Oserón, adapting his songs into comics or creating tales that complemented them.
The teams Pegamoids, Dinarama and Fangoria, led by Alaska, have admitted to being full followers of the comics and have devoted songs to characters corresponding to Vampirella, Zombies or Godzilla.
You also can see references to her in movies wishing her followers a Merry Christmas, or within the 2016 photonovela, Masked Wrestlers Battle Against Vampire Women from Outer Space.
Music critic Diego Manrique wrote the preface to the ebook “Pop Español”, which appeared in 1991 and included songs taken from comics by varied authors corresponding to Max, Pere Jón, Vazquez, Gallardo or Azagra.
Among the teams featured had been Rosendo, former chief of Leno, Los Rebeldes, Esplender Geometrico, Malevaje, Sinestro Total, Antonio Vega, La Union or Radio Futura, masking nearly all genres of these years. Editorial La Felguera has supported the motto ‘Drugs, intercourse and {couples}’ due to their attraction to this style.
And it’s that cartoonists should not have too many prejudices in terms of drawing on every kind of music. In the 50s they talked about rock and roll and within the 60s they moved in the direction of pop with tales about lab teams like The Archies or The Monkees. In the seventies Marvel printed adventures starring the Beatles and tried to do the identical with The Who and The Doors, with out a lot luck.
But probably the most paradigmatic case is that of the music group Kiss, which emerged within the late Nineteen Seventies and whose house make-up and clothes fired the creativeness of cartoonists and a large military of followers. After the success of the primary quantity, an try was made to publish a second quantity, however cumbersome points within the type of contracts between firms and copyrights thwarted the concept.
More lucky had been The Ramones, the protagonists of the chapters of “Tales of the Ramones”, whereas the sequence “Revolutionary Comics” devoted unauthorized biographies of bands corresponding to Led Zeppelin Metallica, Frank Zappa REM or Sex Pistols.
The predominant consultant in Europe can be Serge Clerk, influenced by The Cramps, Blondie Singers, Deborah Harry, The Clash, The Damned or David Bowie. Currently, the Tindallware Collection publishes biographies of Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber or Donna Summer. efe
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