Name: Perramus: The City & Oblivion: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library)
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Author: Alberto Breccia
ISBN: 9781683962908

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Perramus: The City & Oblivion: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alberto Breccia

Publisher

Fantagraphics

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

508

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781683962908

Edition No.

Synopsis "Perramus: The City & Oblivion: 0 (Alberto Breccia Library) "

Fantagraphics collects the graphic novel Perramus ― winner of an Amnesty International prize ― in English for the first time. This graphic novel follows the existential odyssey of a political dissident. When he voluntarily loses his memory, he's dubbed "Perramus" from the brand of his raincoat. During his absurdist travels, he teams up with the gruff Cannelloni; a foreign aviator dubbed "The Enemy" by despot Mr. Whitesnow; and the blind author "Borges" (based on the real-life literary figure), who comes to be a guide. This motley crew journeys to outlandish locales where they encounter a variety of eccentric characters ― including a director of trailers for films that will never exist; a guerilla fbeforce of circus folk, clowns, and puppeteers; a tin-pot dictator with a vast fortune built on an empire of excrement; and Ronald Reagan. This highly anticipated collection is an act of resistance in and of itself ― it was created while Argentina's military dictatorship was still in power. Perramus is a cartooning tour de force, with a revolutionary message that remains vital to this day. Black & white illustrations.

Alberto Breccia

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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1919 and passed away in Buenos Aires in 1993. As a child, his family settled in Argentina, in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires City. He worked in a meatpacking plant and in 1938 he did his first job in a local magazine. Author and illustrator of numerous nationally and internationally successful comics, including Vito Nervio, Misterix, Ernie Pike, and El Eternauta, among others. Alberto Breccia is not only a renowned master of drawing and a great comic and comic book artist, he was also a brilliant painter. His production was not large, but rather small and very selective. Just as he innovated in drawing, in oil painting he made masterful strokes and worked on both wood and canvas or with plaster; for him, the materials and sizes of the works were not a problem. There is a series of twenty-one large-format paintings by him, in which he interprets characters from works by Jorge Luis Borges, such as The Universal History of Infamy, Fictions, The Aleph, and The Brodie Report. Book Graphics.

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