THE SHIP. University, 2
The cartoonists Manuel Benet and Sergio Bleda are the main protagonists of the exhibition Commando DDT against vampires which inaugurated La Nau in September as part of the program of the 9 Valencia Comic Days. The former drew the longest-running British war comic in history (of 1961 until the present day), Commando For Action and Adventure; and the second is the author ofThe vampire dance, a themed mini series vampiric set in the Barcelona of the nineties. The fight is served! The exhibition begins by explaining the Spanish context after the Civil War where two great schools coexisted, the humorous and the adventurous. The great representative of humor is the publishing house Bruguera born from El Gato Negro, responsible for the publication, others, of the historical Mortadelo and Filemón. In fact, the jewel of this exhibition is the first page of Mortadelo and Filemón drawn by Ibáñez al 1958. And inside the adventure comic that took readers to exotic worlds full of dangers, with less dialogue and more action and narrative, we find the aforementioned Benedict, one of the best exponents of the quiet work of the agency cartoonists who carried out these publications. Bleda would arrive later, in the nineties, being part of a generation of young people that led to the emergence of genre comic books. In La Nau you will discover the pleasure of reading comic books in minor books, sense feel, with drafts of Typex, cut out words and coffee stains. AU
