Astisendo Grupo Editorial Dos Espiritus Comic

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Dos Espiritus Comic Golden . Two Spirits: A Western with a TwistTyto Alba, the illustrator, was fascinated by the existence of a culture that, contrary to the Western world, praised transvestite or non-heterosexual men and women as superior beings.Weskoboug, a transvestite Indian known as a berdache, lives enslaved in a saloon where he is constantly humiliated for the amusement of the customers.After witnessing the murder of a pregnant young woman by the town sheriff, he is discovered and, accompanied by a strange man, Aslak, a Lapp who emigrated to the USA, flees through icy landscapes under the constant risk of being eliminated.Two Spirits is an atypical western where Tyto Alba plays with some of the classic genre tropes, moving from the mystical or existentialist to hyperrealism, but maintaining the action and basic epic of the genre.Not surprisingly, this work echoes the cinematic echoes of Sydney Pollack´s Jeremiah Johnson and Jim Jarmusch´s Dead Man, although for the atmosphere I drew on Robert Altman´s beautiful western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, assures the Catalan cartoonist.Tyto Alba acknowledges that it is a story, or rather some characters, that had been going around in my head for many years. I quite like westerns and I wanted to do something like this.When it came to putting a very particular Indian as the protagonist of the comic, the cartoonist from Badalona found it very interesting that there is a culture that, contrary to the Western world, praised transvestite or non-heterosexual men and women as superior beings. And the double suffering that for those characters could suppose the colonialism and the end of that culture.In Two Spirits, Alb´s taste for open spaces is still evident: the truth is that I feel more comfortable with natural landscapes and with the contrast and the feeling of helplessness they provoke in small human characters, while continuing to expand the palette of colors of the watercolors of his previous works: really, I would like to continue exploring this technique and see where else it leads. tradeinn Techinn