Drago

by Burne Hogarth, Diego Cordoba (Color, Traducción Y Rotulación), Manuel Caldas (Restauración Y Edición)

La obra más personal de Burne Hogarth, por primera vez desde su creación en 1945-46, publicada con el dibujo y el color completamente restaurados y la traducción basada en el texto original. Un hito editorial.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1945

About the author

Burne Hogarth started young. Born in 1911, he was enrolled in the Chicago Art Institute at the age of 12 and an assistant cartoonist at Associated Editors' Syndicate at 15. At the age of 26, he was chosen from a pool of a dozen applicants as Hal Foster's successor on the United Features Syndicate strip, "Tarzan". His first strip, very much in Foster's style, appeared May 9, 1937. It wasn't long before he abandoned the attempt to maintain the original look of the strip and brought his own dynamic style to the Sunday comics page.

In 1947, Hogarth co-founded (with Silas Rhodes) the School of Visual Arts which became his new direction in life. He was able to pass his unique methods on illustration to his students in the classroom and, in 1958, to the readers of his first book, Dynamic Anatomy.

Hogarth retired from the SVA in 1970 but continued to teach at The Parsons School of Design and, after a move to Los Angeles, The Otis School and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. During his years teaching, Hogarth authored a number of anatomy and drawing books that have become standard references for artists of every sort, including computer animators. Dynamic Anatomy (1958) and Drawing the Human Head (1965) were followed by further investigations of the human form. Dynamic Figure Drawing (1970) and Drawing Dynamic Hands (1977) completed the figure cycle. Dynamic Light and Shade (1981) and Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery (1995) explored other aspects relative to rendering the figure.

After more than 20 years away from strip work and being hailed in Europe as "the Michelangelo of the comic strip," Hogarth returned to sequential art in 1972 with his groundbreaking Tarzan of the Apes, a large format hardbound book published by Watson Guptill in 11 languages. It marks the beginning of the sober volume of integrated pictorial fiction, what is currently understood to be a graphic novel.

Burne Hogarth passed away in 1996 at the age of 84.

Reviews

[Alberto Martín de Hijas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Muy buen dibujo (Y excelente edición) pero los argumentos me parecen bastante flojos.

[Bernard Convert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Le scénario part un peu dans tous les sens, passant d'intrigues modernissimes avec sous-marins et bombes atomiques à des histoires de jacqueries de moyen-âge ; le personnage principal, Drago, est mal défini, entre Tarzan et Zorro (Bernardo devenant Tabasco et Tornado Diablo) ; il a un coeur d'artichaut, passant en quelques pages des bras de Darby, la fille du savant, à ceux de Flamingo, l'égérie d'une révolte paysanne ; le cadre a été sans doute choisi pour sortir a minima de celui du western traditionnel, trop convenu, mais le choix de cette Argentine d'opérette est une cote mal taillée.
Reste le dessin de Burne Hogarth, les musculatures masculines à la Michel-Ange, les pin-ups à l'érotisme incendiaire comme on en dessinait dans les années 40 sur le nez des avions, le terrible baron Zodiac, nazi à monocle (qui s'échappe toujours comme Fantomas, Rastatopoulos ou Lady X), le dynamisme incroyable de certaines cases ou planches. Bref un comics baroque au charme désuet dont je m'étonne qu'il ne soit pas plus cité dans la communauté goodreads.