Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Creepy Crawler Like Doll Maker




Title: SUPERSTAR Steranko
Author: Angel Street
Editorial: DOLMEN
Pages: 112
PVP: 10.95 €

Faced with the work of Jim Steranko (Pennsylvania, 1938) are only two positions: one loves or loves. And the U.S. is the son of Ukrainian immigrants, is a portentous narrator figure, especially gifted in composition Page, assembly, visual rhythm, finish and design. But also, Steranko has the makings of a pioneer, is a tireless innovator, a rare, unique artist used to reject preconceived formulas and reinvent all the time, making it also an indefinable and elusive type.
His unorthodox career-at this point his career is often cited that only includes a handful of comics and extends to fields as diverse as publishing, magic in general and escapism in particular, the theoretical study of the comic and popular culture, illustration or storyboard-film has not prevented him earning a prominent place in graphic narrative, thanks to seminal works as those by Nick Fury and Captain America in the late 1960's, epitome of pop aesthetics applied to the world of superheroes, but also works like an unusual maturity Chandler: red tide, that peculiar hybrid of comic and elegant black genre novel, Atmospheric Zero, amazing graphic adaptation of the film directed by Peter Hyams (Outland, 1981) or "The Exile at the Edge of Eternity", a gem of ten pages included in Superman No. 400 (October 1984) which won honorable mention in the monumental The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute and Peter Nicholls. Sample all of the ductility and conceptual rebellion for many years was regarded cult artist and, since 2006, is part of the select list included in the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors awarded by the U.S. comics industry to the most outstanding authors of the medium. This booklet
Angel de la Calle, an expanded reissue of texts contained in Steranko. Art Noir (Vanguard Productions / Semana Negra, 2002), go figure, the work and the most outstanding narrative elements Steranko, showing that, beyond the changes log obsessive Pennsylvania There are structural and plot lines that are repeated throughout a production that began in the shadow of Jack Kirby and soon evolved into a conscious and refined eclecticism that integrates elements of pop art, surrealism, psychedelia and film.
In the words of De la Calle: "Knowing Steranko is love, and love even more his work. Beyond its pose, majestic, and their ways as American-and impossible-teeth, is one of the greatest authors of the expression in the last century cartoons. An innovator, an experimenter, someone for whom the comics are really important, both to play with their language and, step, making it grow. A superstar in the final. " Javier Fernandez

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