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Max: Comics Art in Spain
Posted: November 16, 2014
For more the four decades, from Spain’s local countercultural margins to international acclaim today, the ever-changing comics of Spanish artist Max, alias Francesc Capdevilla, have responded to his personal perspectives and the spirit of the times. Max emerged under the repressive Franco regime, debuting his work in 1973 in truly subversive ‘underground’ comix which the authorities pounced upon for ‘infringing public morals’. Post-Franco freedoms unleashed his angry radical Gustavo, then his punk distortion of Barrie’s fantasy Peter Pank, and more recently the bizarre, balding Bardin, inheritor of Superrealist powers from Luis Buñuel’s Andalusian Dog. Vapor, Max’s latest graphic novel translated by Fantagraphics, purifies and condenses his cartooning and thinking still further. Read my new article and Max’s new 2-page comic here…
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