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Drácula
Dos de las estrellas del cómic popular procedente de argentina, Alberto Salinas y Robin Wood, nos ofrecen la violenta historia de Vlad Drácula, soberano del pequeño reino de Valaquia a mediados del siglo XV; gobernante célebre históricamente por su crueldad y también popular literariamente hablando ya que sus leyendas sirvieron de fuente de inspiración a Bram Stoker para su obra más famosa. Salinas y Wood hacen hincapié en la biografía de Vlad Drácula desde su infancia hasta su trágico final, pasando por su ascenso al poder y posterior exilio. Una biografía condicionada por la situación geográfica de su reino, en la frontera entre el imperio otomano y los dominios del emperador de Alemania y rey de Hungría.
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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Robin Wood
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Robin Wood was a Paraguayan comic book writer and author. He was mostly known for his classical work in Argentine comics and his later work in European comics. Of Paraguayan-Australian origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil. Anne Whitehead's 1997 book on New Australia, Paradise Mislaid, provides a chapter on Robin Wood's childhood with his extended Paraguayan-Australian family. Wood settled in Buenos Aires while working as a correspondent for Argentine newspaper El Territorio, and did a series of unqualified jobs before he started writing scripts for popular comic book publishing company Columba. His first published work was Aquí la retirada, illustrated by his friend Lucho Olivera, in the magazine D'artagnan, and would soon become one of the most important comic writers not only of the Argentine comic but that of Latin America. In the 1980s Wood moved to Europe, where he continued with his writing success, especially in Italy where he won the Yellow Kid award. Wood settled in Denmark with his Danish then wife Anne-Mette and their children, but lived his last years in his native Paraguay with his partner Graciela Sténico.
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Robin Wood was a Paraguayan comic book writer and author. He was mostly known for his classical work in Argentine comics and his later work in European comics. Of Paraguayan-Australian origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil. Anne Whitehead's 1997 book on New Australia, Paradise Mislaid, provides a chapter on Robin Wood's childhood with his extended Paraguayan-Australian family. Wood settled in Buenos Aires while working as a correspondent for Argentine newspaper El Territorio, and did a series of unqualified jobs before he started writing scripts for popular comic book publishing company Columba. His first published work was Aquí la retirada, illustrated by his friend Lucho Olivera, in the magazine D'artagnan, and would soon become one of the most important comic writers not only of the Argentine comic but that of Latin America. In the 1980s Wood moved to Europe, where he continued with his writing success, especially in Italy where he won the Yellow Kid award. Wood settled in Denmark with his Danish then wife Anne-Mette and their children, but lived his last years in his native Paraguay with his partner Graciela Sténico.
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February 24, 2016
Wonderful! Not a term I'd apply to a story about Vlad Dracula, the infamous Impaler, but in this case I am. And this really deserves it, it's far above the often terrible retellings of the legend of Dracula that circulate in the Anglophone world, and it's such a pity this was never translated from Spanish into English.
This Dracula is not Bram Stoker's character, the vampire. This Dracula is the man, the warrior, the prince, the lover, and the murderer. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated book, we learn the story of his life from the moment he and his brother, beautiful Radu, arrive as children to the court of the Sultan in Constantinople, to be hostages and to be kept as leverage against their father, the ruling Prince of Wallachia, a tiny principality in what's now Romania. There, Radu becomes a boy toy subjected to the Sultan's lust, whereas Vlad is so wilful that in order to tame his wildness a bit, the Sultan's right-hand man takes him to the torture chambers to show him what happens to those who oppose the Ottomans: they die impaled on stakes. Unimpressed, Vlad doesn't learn the lesson they want to teach him, but instead vows to adopt the Ottomans' torture methods for his own enemies when he becomes a ruler himself.
Once he grows up, he becomes Prince of Wallachia through a bloody war aided by Ottoman troops he's convinced the Sultan to give him. But once on the throne, he refuses to be a mere vassal prince and rebels against the Turks, leading a even bloodier war against them, during which he impales thousands over thousands of enemies on stakes, lined in such orderly fashion as to be a macabre forest of corpses. His cruelty is frightening, but his people are so devoted to him because he protects them, and the Pope himself declares him a champion of Christendom because of his slaughter of infidels. During this time of conquest, he'll become bosom friends with two other youngsters fated to be monarchs of fame: Stephen of Moldavia and Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and meets his first woman.
In the upcoming years, he'll experience loss of power, imprisonment, death of family members, exile, and so much else. But he'll stay as fierce and wild as ever, and as much in love with his small strip of land as ever. He has such an overwhelming and powerful personality, and it's fairly easy to understand his motivations despite his shocking cruelty. He fascinates men and women alike, and eventually finds love in Corvinus' cousin, on whom he'll father children that'll be his one sole weakness.
The plot moves at a very fast pace, with virtually no slow moments, until his demise. When that arrives, it's a bit sad to see him go down according to how a Macbeth-like prophecy about him had foreseen. And how greatly it was drawn! The artist, Alberto Salinas, is new to me, I'd never seen any work of his before, and now I want to see more, because his style is truly beautiful, of the sort that screams "classical master" at you. Of this book, there's two versions: one coloured and one in black and white. My edition is the B&W one, but I wanted to see how the coloured version looked like and sampled some loose images online, after which I can confidently say that the B&W version is much, much, much superior to the coloured one. In my opinion, that's because the simplicity of the black and white allows Salinas' drawing skills to shine all on their own, unimpeded by colour that looks so artificial on his pristine style.
This Dracula is not Bram Stoker's character, the vampire. This Dracula is the man, the warrior, the prince, the lover, and the murderer. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated book, we learn the story of his life from the moment he and his brother, beautiful Radu, arrive as children to the court of the Sultan in Constantinople, to be hostages and to be kept as leverage against their father, the ruling Prince of Wallachia, a tiny principality in what's now Romania. There, Radu becomes a boy toy subjected to the Sultan's lust, whereas Vlad is so wilful that in order to tame his wildness a bit, the Sultan's right-hand man takes him to the torture chambers to show him what happens to those who oppose the Ottomans: they die impaled on stakes. Unimpressed, Vlad doesn't learn the lesson they want to teach him, but instead vows to adopt the Ottomans' torture methods for his own enemies when he becomes a ruler himself.
Once he grows up, he becomes Prince of Wallachia through a bloody war aided by Ottoman troops he's convinced the Sultan to give him. But once on the throne, he refuses to be a mere vassal prince and rebels against the Turks, leading a even bloodier war against them, during which he impales thousands over thousands of enemies on stakes, lined in such orderly fashion as to be a macabre forest of corpses. His cruelty is frightening, but his people are so devoted to him because he protects them, and the Pope himself declares him a champion of Christendom because of his slaughter of infidels. During this time of conquest, he'll become bosom friends with two other youngsters fated to be monarchs of fame: Stephen of Moldavia and Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and meets his first woman.
In the upcoming years, he'll experience loss of power, imprisonment, death of family members, exile, and so much else. But he'll stay as fierce and wild as ever, and as much in love with his small strip of land as ever. He has such an overwhelming and powerful personality, and it's fairly easy to understand his motivations despite his shocking cruelty. He fascinates men and women alike, and eventually finds love in Corvinus' cousin, on whom he'll father children that'll be his one sole weakness.
The plot moves at a very fast pace, with virtually no slow moments, until his demise. When that arrives, it's a bit sad to see him go down according to how a Macbeth-like prophecy about him had foreseen. And how greatly it was drawn! The artist, Alberto Salinas, is new to me, I'd never seen any work of his before, and now I want to see more, because his style is truly beautiful, of the sort that screams "classical master" at you. Of this book, there's two versions: one coloured and one in black and white. My edition is the B&W one, but I wanted to see how the coloured version looked like and sampled some loose images online, after which I can confidently say that the B&W version is much, much, much superior to the coloured one. In my opinion, that's because the simplicity of the black and white allows Salinas' drawing skills to shine all on their own, unimpeded by colour that looks so artificial on his pristine style.
April 22, 2021
Una historia que engancha contandote la historia real que hay detras del conde dracula, personaje violento donde los haya que dio guerra hasta su muerte a los turcos. Todo un heroe en Rumania, unificador del pais
October 26, 2024
Biografía en comic con el gran Robin Wood, seguramente el mejor y mas prolifico guionista de historietas en lengua española, que se luce mostrando la personalidad poderosa del Vlad Tepes histórico, a través de pasajes claves ee su vida. Acompañado por el dibujo de un iluminado Alberto Salinas, quien da el efecto inmersivo a esta extraordinaria pieza del Cómic. A pesar del salvajismo y brutalidad de la historia, muestra a un Vlad Tepes, la supuesta inspiración del Dracula literario de Stroker, como un astuto y poderoso guerrero, patriota a su estilo, y siempre como una fuerza de la naturaleza, muy sombría. Muy recomendable.
May 18, 2025
Un comic de categoría. Buen guión y excelente puesta en escena.
July 4, 2012
Una aproximación al mito desde una perspectiva histórica. El dibujo es una pasada y el guión está bastante documentado, aunque esperaba algo más épico (que lo es)
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