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Encyclopedia > Miguelanxo Prado
Trait de Craie, 1994
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Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish comic book creator, born in 1958. A comic book artist at work. ...


He studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before moving to comics.


He worked for many magazines and writes delirious and fierce life-chronicles. He published his first albums at Les Humanoïdes Associés: Chienne de Vie (1988), C'est du Sport (1989) and Y'a Plus de Justice (1991). He also produced erotic stories, which appeared in L'Écho_des_Savannes. His best-known comic book is Trait de craie (Streak of Chalk, 1992). This is a dream-like, experimental and beautifully colored "impossible" story about a man on an island, who can't distinguish dream and reality, or the present and the past. He wins several prizes for this album, among which the Alph'Art for the Best Foreign Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Its is the second times he earns this award; the first time was in 1991 for Manuel Montano. Humanoids Publishing (in French Humanoïdes Associés) is a comics publisher specialising in science fiction titles. ... L’Écho des Savanes is a French comics magazine founded in May 1972 by Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka. ... The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the main comics festival in Europe. ...


As of 2005, he keeps creating comics on a regular basis.


Bibliography

  • Chienne de vie, 1988, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life
  • Demain les dauphins', 1988, ASIN 2731605987
  • Manuel Montano, 1989, ASIN : 2203338318
  • C'est du sport, 1989, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life
  • Stratos, 1990
  • Y a plus de justice, 1990
  • Trait de craie, 1993, ISBN 2203338555 , ASIN 2203388552
  • Pierre et le loup (Peter And the Wolf, 1995, adaptation of the children musical tale from Prokofiev, ISBN 2203182180
  • Chroniques absurdes, Tome 1 : Un monde délirant ("Quotidien délirant"), 1996, absurd chronicles of the day-to-day life, ISBN 2-8001-3580-8
  • Chroniques absurdes, Tome 2 : Un monde de brutes, ISBN 2800136065
  • Chroniques absurdes, Tome 3 : Un monde barbare, ISBN 2800136804
  • Venins de femmes' (Tangents) ISBN 1-56163-148-5
  • Nostalgies de Belo Horizonte quand j'étais un autre, 2005, ISBN 2203359234

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A collection of tales of outrageous irony and absurdity about the daily travails and absurdities we face in life with an occasional bite of lunacy.
A young man spends his summer on a tiny, uncharted island in the Atlantic where he falls in love with a beautiful writer named Ana and finds himself entangled in a web of obsession, deceit, and violence, where nothing is quite what it seems.
In a collection of short stories Prado illustrates a number of fleeting relationships between people of power and ambition, where feelings are coldly subjected to careers and social climbing with poignant and dramatic results.
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