Oficio: dibujante (Astiberri Ensayo)

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Oficio: Dibujante Spanish Comic. The secrets of cartoonist José Luis Munuera, cartoonist of The Moon Game and Fraternity, reveals how he manages to make a living telling stories, and even how to survive Spirou, in a rigorous essay sprinkled with multiple anecdotes. José Luis Munuera, a transnational successful illustrator very sensitive to the condition of the comic book artist, who has published works such as The Moon Game or Fraternity, has always had a chronic fondness for analyzing very diverse aspects of the creative act in general and the world of comics in particular.With the disappearance of theoretical magazines about comics in Spain, printed texts on comics have been reduced in recent years to the timely exceptions of a few snipers -and the few publishers that are committed to publishing them-, to whom Munuera himself now joins with the book Oficio:dibujante.Endowed with a restless spirit that triple fatherhood has only intensified, Munuera has embarked, on the verge of turning 40, on the task of writing a series of previously unpublished texts, together with others revamped for the occasion, bringing them together in a kind of not at all improvised memoirs.The result is an essay as rigorous for the theoretical background and the more than enough packaging of the professional career of its author, as its agile reading is enjoyable with the passion shown in the sharp reflections it pours, capable of unleashing debate and, perhaps, controversy.A colleague of his, Paco Roca, prologue writer of the book, has it in any case clear, and points out that this passion of Munuera is so contagious that when I finished reading it I had the vital need to immediately start drawing.And, of course, also to reread his works, because this book is a perfect complement to it.On the other hand, Oficio:dibujante has the sign for all audiences.In this sense, the author of The Winter of the Cartoonist and Wrinkles adds that it is not only essential for anyone who wants to or is dedicated to this business of making comics, it is also for anyone who wants to know more about what life is like for the hard-working worker who hides in street clothes behind the vignettes.Munuera reveals the secrets of his trade:how he approaches his projects and proposes them to publishers. tradeinn Techinn