MA Martin
runs a workshop on comic author
"Brian the Brain", "Happy Days," "Kyrie, New European," "Snuff 2000", "Rubber Flesh "" Playlove "," Bitch "and" Psychopathia Sexualis "are some titles drafted by MA Martin, one of our internationally award-winning authors. In his extensive work has touched issues such as euthanasia, xenophobia, humor, children's comics The anti-globalization, genetics, contemporary art, culture hip hop, graffiti, body modification, drug design, science and technology ... Breaking social taboos is one of the personal obsessions of the artist Leon, but in one of his last album, "Playlove", dared with a romantic history, away from their regular accounts. He has also illustrated "The Rocket vain," her favorite story of Oscar Wilde. In Valencia during the festival will give a workshop for staff interested in alternative comics. Your work is highly regarded in countries Italy, where art galleries expose. How do you take these things?
The only way possible, with a great sense of humor.
illustrated for newspapers, calendars, design firms ...
I have worked in all or almost all fields of illustration, including covers of books and records. I think I'm the only cartoonist who has designed a vibrator, it was to the Italian company selling YOOX online fashion.
usually say you do not read comics regularly.
Very few, actually. I temporarily lost interest in fiction in general, including the cinema or the novel because I find things that impressed me or motivate me. The autobiographical comics so popular not stand. People are always oil the mucus and sadder and i do not think so, is false, memos throwing the roll to be the sensitive, where behind no more than a spoiled child attitude ridiculous. Is there anyone in the world of comics that has an interesting life and intense as they have done in the literature Burroughs, Bukowski, Celine, or Miller, to name a few? I have the impression that the world missing comic reading, information and life. I'm not interested in anything the mediocre display of narcissism is so characteristic of these times, the same can be said of that shit they call indie film or music with that tag. I'm pretty sick of the roll "retro" at all. What really interests me is the era we live in itself is astonishing, but not their products mediocre art, characterized by fear of the future, nostalgia, sentimentality, low self-esteem, lack of sense of humor characteristics of the culture of narcissism that defines this transition period we are living.
What are your current inspirations?
I have already said: the world we live in general and in particular, science, technology and pornography. There are a thousand times more imagination and creativity in porn fetish, not the conventional shit's on TV, in film and comics all together.
edit you recently King Lear, a publisher of literature. How did it start? What changes have you noticed?
Its director, Jesús Egido is a of my best friends for over 25 years. Egido is a journalist, a great reader and lover of cinema and comics. It was he who found me as an artist back in 1981 when I made an exhibition of originals of my comics in a pub in León. I did the first interview to the press and gave me my first opportunity as an illustrator at the newspaper where he worked, "Diario de León, and later in" The Chronicle of Leon. " Who was going to say to me, and he who would become my editor! I had several offers for the publication of this cartoon, I can not stand the term "graphic novel" - and accepted King Lear, especially by Egido, who cares much editions. In fact, just got an award from the Ministry of Culture for the best book published. And because he was a publisher of literature in a little over a year has opened a hole in the hostile world of literature and has gained great respect. With this I will reach another audience not regular reader of comics, but begins to discover and show interest in him.
Are you fashionable? I hope not, ha, ha, ha!
COPYRIGHT COMIC WORKSHOP: Miguel Ángel Martín.
Location: Hotel Astoria.
Registration: http://www.mostravalencia.com/
Friday 15, 11 to 14 and from 16 to 20 hours.
Saturday 16, from 17 to 20 hours.
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