Name: Alberto Breccias Dracula hc: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library)
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Author: Alberto Breccia
ISBN: 9781683964391

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Alberto Breccias Dracula hc: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alberto Breccia

Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

30.3 x 21.7 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9781683964391

Edition No.

Synopsis "Alberto Breccias Dracula hc: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library) "

Alberto Breccia's Dracula is composed of a series of brutally funny satirical misadventures starring the hapless eponymous antihero. Literally defanged (a humiliating trip to the dentist doesn't help), the protagonist's glory days are long behind him and other, more sinister villains (a corrupt government, overtly backed by American imperialism) are sickening and draining the life out of the villagers far more than one creature of the night ever could. This is the first painted, full-color entry in Fantagraphics' artist-focused Alberto Breccia Library, and the atmospheric palette adds mood and dimension. It also includes a sketchbook showing the artist's process. Dracula has no co-author, and so Breccia's carnivalesque vision is as pure Breccia as it gets. Created during the last of a succession of Argentine military dictatorships (1982-1983), this series of short comics stories ran in Spain's Comix Internacional periodical in 1984. The moral purpose of Breccia's expressionistic art style is made explicit; he shows that every ounce of his grotesque, bloated characters' flesh and blood has been cruelly extracted from the less fortunate.

Alberto Breccia

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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1919 and passed away in Buenos Aires in 1993. As a child, his family settled in Argentina, in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires City. He worked in a meatpacking plant and in 1938 he did his first job in a local magazine. Author and illustrator of numerous nationally and internationally successful comics, including Vito Nervio, Misterix, Ernie Pike, and El Eternauta, among others. Alberto Breccia is not only a renowned master of drawing and a great comic and comic book artist, he was also a brilliant painter. His production was not large, but rather small and very selective. Just as he innovated in drawing, in oil painting he made masterful strokes and worked on both wood and canvas or with plaster; for him, the materials and sizes of the works were not a problem. There is a series of twenty-one large-format paintings by him, in which he interprets characters from works by Jorge Luis Borges, such as The Universal History of Infamy, Fictions, The Aleph, and The Brodie Report. Book Graphics.

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