David B. · Obstacles · 2021
Nick Carter y André Breton It is a comic intended for interested readers (and versed) in Surrealism, willing to read a surreal artifact itself traversed by a kind of automatic writing embedded in dreamlike drawings. The French cartoonist David B. has united in the narrative the father of Surrealism, André Breton, con Nick Carter, the detective protagonist of a famous serial created in 1886 for el New York Weekly. The serials were influential in the genesis of surrealism in the 1920s, it's more, Bretón even said that serial literature seemed to him to be an unconscious example of automatic writing.. Hence this curious union that the author of the acclaimed Epileptic, for Álvaro Pons, the first European comic masterpiece of the 21st century. Es 1931 and our detective Nick Carter, friend of surrealist painters and poets, He is hired by a Breton in the midst of a personal crisis who leads a movement that is bleeding. Someone has stolen something that they don't know how to define very well.. Perhaps the soul of Surrealism? Carter's investigations will lead us to know - entering dreams, crossing dimensions and shooting white hair from the revolver—to the poet Robert Desnos (“the poet who has gone further than any of us into the unknown”, Breton said of him); and Nadja, Breton's former lover to whom he dedicated a novel, an unusual medium in the Surrealist movement because it was bourgeois. An egomaniacal and dark Dalí (expelled from the movement), Louis Aragon (deserter), René Crevel (always related to Bretón), Frida Kahlo (renegade), the mischievous Brussels group headed by Magritte, y Georges Bataille (magazine creator Documents that challenged the surrealist postulates) They appear in this investigation constantly tripped by Doctor Quartz, evil character from the original serial. Breton will flee to America escaping the Vichy regime and will be welcomed by Yves Tanguy, from whom Dalí borrowed his dream and mental landscapes without ever acknowledging it., and will return to Paris, where nothing will be the same again... A surreal comic about the leader of surrealism signed by one of the great European comic authors. AU
