Fly Blues

by Oscar Zárate, Carlos Sampayo, Emilie Saada (Translator)

Néopolar drôle, cruel, intelligent ou fable moderne sur l'art, l'amour et la bêtise qui peut être meurtrière ? Les deux, assurément ! Cette jubilante fable de la modernité qui se veut triomphante est d'abord une histoire menée avec maestria par deux auteurs au sommet de leur art. Au texte vif et tranchant de Sampayo répond harmonieusement l'écriture graphique subtile et singulière de Zárate, conférant à Fly Blues une esthétique délicatement baroque. Avec ce récit Carlos Sampayo et Oscar Zárate nous donnent à penser sur l'art, l'amour, le sexe, l'exacerbation des sentiments humains... et la bêtise raciste et meurtrière.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. In the Introducing... and ...For Beginners book series he illustrated texts written by Richard Appignanesi, Alexei Sayle, Dylan Evans, J P McEvoy, Angus Gellatly and Rupert Woodfin. He is perhaps best known in the United States as the artist for the graphic novel A Small Killing written by Alan Moore, the a full length story about a once idealistic advertising executive haunted by his boyhood self.