Re: RARA-AVIS: Non-US Writers/ Munoz - Sampayo
Etienne Borgers (etienne@singnet.com.sg)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:43:57 +0800 (SGT)
>The discussion of Latin hardboiled reminded me of a
great comic, Sinner,
>by two Argentinians Jose Munoz and Carlos Sampayo. These
stories
>feature a former New York cop, in a mythic New York that
probably has
>more to do with movies than the real city (if I recall
correcty, neither
>of them had ever been near NYC when they began the
series). The Sinner
>stories were translated into English and published by
Fantagraphics.
>They have also done various stories featuring denizens
of Sinner's
>favorite hangout. Several of these were collected into
the book Joe's
>Bar by Catalan.
>
>Frank Miller, as usual recognizing hs influences, has
been quite open
>about his own Sin City's debt to Sampayo's
artwork.
>
>Mark
>
The influence on Miller is quite obvious, especially for the
use of black
color in the drawings. Real HB comics well ahead of their time
when
published first.
( =eartly 70's -the authors were living in Europe,
Spain).
There is a chapter in my HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES, comics
section, giving some
drawings taken from their works as illustration in the page
devoted to
ALAC SINNER, one of the characters of Munoz - Sampayo; check
out at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
As for Frank Miller, and his dark lyric comics, there was a
very interesting
discussion about it some months ago in RARA AVIS- check for
the archives in
the RARA website at:
http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/archives/
Check out the month of
January 98
Hope this helps
E.Borgers
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