Title: PATHS Author: PACO ROCA
Editorial: LAUKATU
Pages: 272
PVP: 22 €
tell them not to cheat that, in general, Paco Roca's work leaves me so indifferent. No I mean that some valuable consideration, or whether I am blind to the virtues thematic, aesthetic and narratological the Valencian artist. On the contrary, the rapid consolidation of the work seems great news in the panorama of English comics today, and if something shows Senderos. A retrospective of the work of Paco Roca is the strength of the path traveled so far by the author of The sandy streets. It's simply a matter of taste: there who likes cold soup and those who prefer it hot. I am of the latter.
What convinces me not, in general, insist the work of rock? On the one hand his warmth or already leaving and going to culinary simile questions of literary composition, its simplicity, not simplicity. Also, it is full of cliches, hackneyed references, and a kindness in his eyes sometimes I find it cloying. There are artificial, but not enough to signify a style. Also Naturalism, and ditto for the same.
Now if we talk about efficiency is narrative Paco Roca has a natural gift far greater than the average comic. Their way of counting is clean, straightforward
, almost perfect. Use the bullet with the agility of a screenwriter, and agile is also the rhythm of each and every one of his stories. Given also the fact that his mastery of storytelling is not new, just flip through the volume before us to realize that what comes from the factory. While, yes, it has been refined and made more and more accurate over time. In other words, rock is one that captures the attention from beginning to end. Not so much a creator of images, in the literary sense, as a real reporter. Following the credit of Rock, I find excellent handling of inks, most with advancing his career. I admire your quest for the aesthetic singularity in the narrow field of clear line and the relentless march towards the synthesis style. I value their progressive distancing of the clichés, the incorporation of the emotions and intimacy to his work and the determination to go against, to arrive at one's own personality, which has earned the respect and admiration of friends and strangers, and announcing future summits.
The book edited by Laukatu reviewed in depth the history of comics and adds to the long party to celebrate the national award won by Wrinkles in 2008. And it does with the wisdom of an edition of beautifully crafted, full of sketches, cartoons and illustrations of Rock and riddled with informative notes and impressions of various writers and cartoonists. All articles about a wide and interesting interview by Koldo Azpitarte that, among countless anecdotes, reveals the mind and the artist's method. Javier Fernández
