“Igor Medio was always drawing, he was very restless. We found notebooks and folders full of ideas and sketches“. He has told it in BE Gijón the cartoonist Norman Fernández. He is part of the ten friends and family what have come together to compile all the strips created by the Asturian artist and musician who died in 2006 for summers in LA NUEVA ESPAÑA starring the popular Castañón Family. Adventures that were published between 1997 and 2005, only before compiled in a book by the Medium itself.
“We want to respect the book that he made (which spanned from 1997 to 2004), add the 2005 strips that were to be collected and what had already advanced for the summer of 2006. There are about 20 strips, some finished, others sketched or half inkedThe explanation for this unpublished production is the great musical activity that the folk group ‘Felpeyu’, of which Ígor Medio was a member, recorded in summer. The work, which will also include extras such as posters and other formats with the Castañón Family as the protagonist, aims to “recover his work but, above all, to recover his memory. There are many people who remember Igor a lot, who were fans of his work and are sure to be very happy about this compilation “.
The full edition will be financed through crowdfunding. The project, for which 4,500 euros are needed, is now open a financing on the Verkami platform, where you can also buy ‘rewards’ such as mugs with the characters of the Castañón Family or cloth bags. The campaign, which ends in June, was born with good expectations and Its promoters, who work in this edition in a disinterested way, hope that the benefits will exceed the established amount and allow them to carry out a second “more ambitious project, which will be ‘Too Ígor Medio’ where we will collect all his graphic work “.
Ígor Medio Tuya, cartoonist and very popular musician in Asturias, died in 2006 in a traffic accident with musician Carlos Redondo, causing a great impact on the Asturian cultural scene.
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