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Fragmentos Seleccionados
El fuego se inició sobre las 11:45 de la mañana. En cuestión de minutos todo el bosque estaba lleno de humo. Aunque las llamas eran cada vez más intensas, nada parecía estar ardiendo. Cuando al fin se disipó el humo, todo estaba intacto. Sin embargo, el olor a quemado tardó meses en desaparecer.
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128 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2017
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June 3, 2019
While I am usually a fan of narrative and visual ambiguity, many of the short works collected in Andrés Magán’s Fragmentos Seleccionados seem far too intellectual and too controlled. I kept wishing that he would just let go a little and give his ideas some life of their own.
I’m impressed by the ways that Magán experiments with time and abstraction, but I rarely have the sense that his experiments are in service of anything other than the experiments themselves. Most of these comics read like technical sketches, as though he’s merely trying out some interesting layouts and paneling concepts. Undeniably, he is incredibly imaginative in how he uses and expands the comics form, but much of what is here seems to be technical or poetic indulgences rather than fully formed thoughts, feelings, ideas, or stories.
Nevertheless, there are two short comics that tower far above the rest. In one, an artist attempts unsuccessfully to get feedback on some of his work from a series of other characters. He travels from one house and one character to the next, each character ignoring or rejecting him and each encounter increasing in strangeness and importance. It reads something like a folk tale or children’s story and has many of the profound payoffs that the best folk tales and children’s stories do. The last story similarly follows an old structure: that of the medieval dream narrative or religious allegory/pilgrimage. Like the story of the artist, this also reads like a beautiful and uncannily familiar folk tale. Both of these stories are unquestionably worth your time.
Unfortunately, the majority of the other pieces in this collection didn’t resonate nearly as powerfully with me as those two. These others might stand on their own as interesting experiments, but few cohere into anything very substantial. At best, they might inspire a brief “hmm,” but not much else.
I’m impressed by the ways that Magán experiments with time and abstraction, but I rarely have the sense that his experiments are in service of anything other than the experiments themselves. Most of these comics read like technical sketches, as though he’s merely trying out some interesting layouts and paneling concepts. Undeniably, he is incredibly imaginative in how he uses and expands the comics form, but much of what is here seems to be technical or poetic indulgences rather than fully formed thoughts, feelings, ideas, or stories.
Nevertheless, there are two short comics that tower far above the rest. In one, an artist attempts unsuccessfully to get feedback on some of his work from a series of other characters. He travels from one house and one character to the next, each character ignoring or rejecting him and each encounter increasing in strangeness and importance. It reads something like a folk tale or children’s story and has many of the profound payoffs that the best folk tales and children’s stories do. The last story similarly follows an old structure: that of the medieval dream narrative or religious allegory/pilgrimage. Like the story of the artist, this also reads like a beautiful and uncannily familiar folk tale. Both of these stories are unquestionably worth your time.
Unfortunately, the majority of the other pieces in this collection didn’t resonate nearly as powerfully with me as those two. These others might stand on their own as interesting experiments, but few cohere into anything very substantial. At best, they might inspire a brief “hmm,” but not much else.
April 20, 2022
Nivelazo. Propuestas gráficas que te explotan en los ojos al servicio de algunas tramas completamente surrealistas. Me encanta.
March 13, 2024
Si aceptas el surrealismo y los acertijos , in tregua, como animal de compañía, es un libro lindo.
August 31, 2025
Claramente, fragmentos seleccionados.
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