Showing posts with label Enrique Breccia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enrique Breccia. Show all posts

February 6, 2012

Knock Out

Jack London



Enrique Breccia (Illustrations)

«"You're yellow! You're yellow!" "Open up, you cur! Open up!" Kill'm, Danny! Kill'm!" "You sure got 'm! Kill'm!»





Written between 1905 and 1911, the stories collected in Knock Out include A Piece of Steak, The Mexican, and The Game. Three boxing stories, three fascinating tales whose intensity grows page after page until perfection. Jack London and three memorable fights, with the epic character typical of his literature.


Enrique Breccia, one of the great contemporary illustrators, has drawn twenty black and white prints that confer a powerful realism to each of these adventures, packed with excitement and courage. Pages where the images and the stories attract our attention, eventually transforming it into pure excitement.


165 x 240 mm, 132 pp, Hardback with Jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92412-94-5

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March 8, 2010

At the Mountains of Madness

Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Enrique Breccia (illustrations)

«It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came that eldritch, mocking cry –“Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!”...»



In the abysses of Antarctica, an expedition from the University of Miskatonic discovers traces of the civilisation of The Elder Things and an abominable secret: millions of years later, their executioners are still at work in the depths of the ice

An aura of horror fills the pages of this nightmare, whose underworld Enrique Breccia once again masterfully illustrates, following his worldwide bestseller Lovecraft.






165 x 240 mm; 164 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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March 7, 2010

Enrique Breccia

Buenos Aires, 1945



He is the author of such emblematic works in the comic genre as The Life of Che (1969); Alvar Mayor (1976); The travels of Marco Mono (1981) and Lope de Aguirre (1989). He has published Lovecraft (2002) for the DC Comic publishing house, who also published his famous collaborations for the series Batman: Gotham Knights (2001) and Swamp Thing (2004). In 1963 he won the Gold Medal at the Salon of the Argentinean Cartoonists Association and the 1983 Pléyade Prize for the best graphic production of the year..

Títulos publicados:
Meeting
In The Mountains of Madness
Koolau el leproso

February 11, 2009

Meeting

Julio Cortázar



Enrique Brecci (illustrations)

«I remember the man who started to shout that we had to surrender, and the voice that answered him between two bursts of a Thompson, the voice of the Lieutenant, a roar above the shooting: “No one surrenders here, damm it!”»

Meeting describes the difficult days that followed the landing of the Granma on the coast of Cuba, when Ernesto Guevara made his mark as a combatant in the revolution. Written vividly in the first person, the voice of «Che» recalls their exhausting days spent among the mangrove swamps, the setbacks that he had to face alongside his comrades in arms and his baptism of fire at the battle of Alegría del Pío.

The intensity of Meeting and its epic quality based on profound emotions are an example of the incomparable talent of Julio Cortázar, and his ability to depict the profound humanity of one of the 20th century’s most admired figures.The illustrations of Enrique Breccia recreate the key moments of this account.


180 x 265 mm; 40 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-79-5


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February 10, 2009

Julio Cortázar with Zorro Rojo




«There at the end is death, but don’t be afraid. Hold the watch tight with one hand, take the stem with two fingers, and rotate it smoothly. Now another installment of time opens, trees spread their leaves, boats run races, like a fan time continues filling with itself, and from it the eruption of air, the breezes of the earth, the shadow of a woman, the sweet smell of bread.» Instructions for winding a watch.

... and the literature of Julio Cortázar


Twenty-five years after the death of the author of Rayuela, Libros del Zorro Rojo invites you to discover its illustrated editions of Julio Cortázar’s work.



The Pursuer (+ info)
Is one of Julio Cortázar’s greatest literary achievements and a classic of 20th century literature. With a magisterially-handled existential background, the story describes the final days of Johnny Carter, a virtuoso saxophonist whose life takes place on the knife-edge between lucidity and self-destruction. The great illustrator José Muñoz has been able to interpret with extraordinary talent the depth of this fiction in which jazz, nights of insomnia and Paris in the Fifties are the framework for a story beyond compare.





Meeting (+ info)
Meeting is one of the key narratives in Cortázar’s political work, recreating the period when Ernesto Guevara fought as a revolutionary soldier after disembarking at Granma on the coast of Cuba. An epic, moving tale, masterfully illustrated by Enrique Breccia, who, like Cortázar, has captured the full human dimension of Che.





The Bear’s Discourse (+ info)
For little ones, the children’s book The Bear’s Discourse, illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga, which Cortázar wrote specifically for two children in 1952. The bear in this story lives in the ventilation ducts of a building, and during the night observes the strange world of people. Taking the strange noises of the night, Cortázar was able to create a tale full of delight, capable of scaring away fear.