#Aes

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Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)

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 『 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 . . . . 』

╰┈➤ ⚖ 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓀𝓎 𝒞𝓇𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒟𝑜𝓌𝓃 - 𝒥𝒶𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝒲𝑒𝒷𝓁𝑒𝓎 ⚖

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Autumn colors - Mirador Quilleihue, La Araucanía -Chile

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Hunger by Nightjar art of Adam Burke

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[lesbianchemicalplant]

This week I'm thinking about Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester's singular, dreamlike autobiographical comic Manuel, first published in book form in 1985. I own the 2005 reprint Manuel no está solo, which also gathers up the remaining small amount of comics and related drawing that Rodrigo (who like many Spanish cartoonists in the 80s only used one name professionally, a nod to the publishing conventions of midcentury European comics) ever published; his primary vocation over the years has been in architecture and fine art, particularly sculpture. My last two entries under the Auteur Comix subheading were examinations of French cartoonists who serialized their albums in the Belgian magazine (À Suivre); if European arts comics had a center in the early 80s, it was there. Manuel, however, was serialized in La Luna de Madrid, a generalist arts magazine which documented the new-wave movida madrileña of the early 80s, and where Rodrigo shared page space with the likes of Pedro Almodóvar and El Hortelano. It has never been published outside of Spain, even as the appetite for unapologetically gay narratives has grown exponentially over the last thirty-five years.

panels from Manuel by Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester, 1985

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