Beatnik Buenos Aires
$30.39
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2021
Summary
When night falls in Buenos Aires, the city comes alive. Artists flock to cafes and dives to exchange ideas, listen to music, watch outré performance art, pen poetry, fall in love. In these raucous, smoke filled rooms, the bohemian heart and soul of this vibrant city, a conflagration of creative energy burns. With the improvisational pacing of a jazz performance, Beatnik Buenos Aires follows the lives of writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, and performers as they wend their way th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781683964032 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1683964039 |
| Author: | Diego Arandojo, Facundo Percio |
| Publisher: | Fantagraphics |
| Imprint: | Fantagraphics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 255mm x 203mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The book’s 13 short chapters, each focused on a different artist, coalesce into an eminently readable, visually gorgeous tapestry.– “Four Color Apocalypse”Beatnik Buenos Aires builds and builds, providing the cultural stew of a glimpse back to a creative era that burned briefly, but brightly, and indelibly for some. … It’s a masterpiece.– “The Slings & Arrows”
About The Author
Diego Arandojo
Diego Arandojo is an Argentine author, scriptwriter, award-winning film and TV documentarian, and filmmaker. In addition to writing short fiction, novels, graphic novels, children’s radio plays, and more, he runs the digital magazine Lafarium. His earlier graphic novel Beatnik Buenos Aires was translated by Fantagraphics in 2021.
Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D’Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively.
Facundo Percio is an Argentine comics artist located in Buenos Aires. He’s worked with writers such as Alan Moore and Warren Ellis, and has drawn Star Wars comics.
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