The cartoonist Juan Carlos Quattordio published two new books: “The metallic years” and “Argentina power”, both under the seal of Two Books. The two new publications that are in local bookstores contain comics published in the Fierro magazine and, in addition, the author from Mar del Plata added unpublished materials.
It should be noted that the two books were prefaced by the writer and current Director of the National Library, Juan Sasturain, and by the American cartoonist Peter Bagge, one of the leading artists of the world alternative comic.
“Argentina power” it’s a story that mixes superheroes and science fiction, in full frame of the first Peronism.
AND “The metallic years”, meanwhile, it is a semi-autobiographical history about the time when the author sang in the Mar del Plata heavy metal band “Conan”. It tells the midlife crisis, in a funny, nostalgic and bittersweet story.
This book also contains the first comic that Quattordio –He is currently the author of “I’m not a robot” for Fierro magazine.– published on a professional level and also included eighty unpublished pages.
“This powerful and unusual comic strip that Quattordio proposes us with the authority and professionalism that the work gives and the consequence of years, is a beautiful and daring visual and narrative experiment. Welcome, once again, like everything that has generated, for decades, the spectacle of Creole superheroes in the heart of the 20th century and contemporary Argentine politics, “said Sasturain about” Argentina potency. “
“In a single complex and comprehensive gesture, Argentina Power fluently connects history and mythology, politics and science fiction, homage and originality, with the impunity that graphic skills and knowing how to count give. Let’s go out to see the flying superheroes once more, let’s go to the square once again to wait for the miracle of triumphant Justice ”, he added.
For Bagge, meanwhile, “The metallic years“” Evokes very vivid memories that shake the main character so much Yon as they surely will with the reader ”and praised how thorough Quattordio is in remembering the decades of the ’80s and’ 90s.
“I take my hat off to Juan for weaving all of this into a wise and excellently executed piece of art in the form of a comic strip, as only a craftsman could do it, “said the American cartoonist.
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