Antonio Altarriba

Título: EL ARTE DE VOLAR Resumen: Primera edición en formato novela gráfica. Para sinopsis consultar primera edición. IX PREMIOS CÁLAMO. Premio Cálamo Extraordinario 2009 ("El arte de volar" rompe moldes y géneros. Por su temática y enorme calidad literaria y gráfica no dudamos en afirmar que nos encontramos ante uno de los libros más importantes publicados en la última década).

El arte de volar

Uçma Sanatı

El ala rota

Keko

Yo, loco

A Asa Quebrada

Der gebrochene Flügel

Eu, Assassino

Antonio Altarriba was one of the finalist at XVIII Award La Sonrisa Vertical with his work: Interwoven Bodies. He offers us now four juicy stories in which reveals the hidden life of some fictional characters, that unconfessed intimacy the authors never tell. So Penelope, Scheherazade, Victor Frankenstein and Alice come to life and venture into erotic relations that take the reader to ancient Greece, to the East, Victorian England, to explore ancient myths and stories with a new look, undoubtedly much more sensual, and explore the relationship between wisdom and beauty, between eroticism and beauty, between death, sex and life.

Maravilla en el país de las Alicias

When published in 2009, The Art of Flying was hailed as a landmark in the history of the graphic novel in Spain for its deeply touching synthesis of individual and collective memories. A deeply personal testament, Altarriba’s account of what led his father to commit suicide at the age of ninety is a detective novel of sorts, one that traces his father’s life from an impoverished childhood in Aragon, to service with Franco’s army in the Civil war, escape to join the anarchist FAI, exile in France when the Republicans are defeated, to return to Spain in 1949 and the stultifying existence to which Republican sympathisers were consigned under Francoism. The Art of Flying is immensely moving and vivid, beautifully drawn by Kim. It was highly praised in Spain on first publication, where it was compared to Art Spiegelman’s Maus. It went on to win six major prizes, including the 2010 National Comic Prize.

The Art of Flying

Ich, der Mörder

Antonio Altarriba

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