Building on the centenary of the Portuguese characters Quim and Manecas, created by Stuart Carvalhais in 1915, the 26 AmadoraBD devoted to the central exposure to the child’s presence. The festival begins this Friday, October 23.
Building on the centenary of the Portuguese characters Quim and Manecas, created by Stuart Carvalhais in 1915, the 26 AmadoraBD devoted to exposure to central presence the child in the ninth art, showing original drawings of works such as Little Nemo, Winsor McCay, Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, and Mafalda, Quino.
Speaking to Lusa, the director of AmadoraBD, Nelson Dona said the centenary of the creation of Quim and Manecas, being a comic strip “absolutely avant-garde in the history of European comics.”
The central exhibition will present “a look for every child that marked generations who were reading comics, “said
On the eve of opening to the public, on a visit by Luís de Camões Forum -. central space AmadoraBD – little was shown on the central display, getting to know this will be divided by nuclei related to children.
All the space of the Forum will be graphically linked to the child’s imagination, as he explained the director.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, co-commissioner in AmadoraBD on the Portuguese publishing year, told Lusa that In recent months, there has been “a significant increase” both in the number of editions of books, magazines and fanzines, and as the Portuguese comics production and foreign translation.
The journalist also highlights the emergence a collection, made in partnership between Levoir publisher and the newspaper Público, which allowed the publication in Portugal of graphic novels names “fundamental to the history of BD”, namely Jacques Tardi, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner and Jiro Taniguchi.
According to Sara Figueiredo Costa, the Portuguese BD live in a counter for the remaining publishing market: “At the time the boom of general editing was at its height, the comic book published in Portugal was quite retracted: there were few titles, many historical publishers had stopped editing, was a Franciscan poverty. In the last two or three years, it reversed “.
About the remaining exposures AmadoraBD in Luis de Camoes Forum will, for example, a dedicated writer André Oliveira, another on the book” The Boxer ” , the German author Reinhart Kleist will present at the festival, and one on the album “The Battle of August 14, 1385″ by Peter Massano, which refers to Aljubarrota.
The AmadoraBD extends to other areas of the city – and also to some of Lisbon – especially the exhibition “Putain de Guerre – The War of the Trenches.”, the French author Jacques Tardi, which is already evident in Bedeteca da Amadora
“One of the most important names in comics Francophone, who had never been to Amadora, who rarely go to festivals,” said Nelson Dona, also emphasizing the spectacle that Tardi prepares for Saturday in Recreios da Amadora.
Tardi exposure is based on three albums dedicated to World War I: “Putain de Guerre”, “Chansons contre la guerre” and “so was the war of the trenches”, this edited in Portugal
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The show has the same theme and will be interpreted by the author, with his wife, singer Dominique Grange. The concert proceeds will go to the Portuguese Council for Refugees.
This year, along with the presence of foreign authors, as Mathieu Sapin, André Diniz and Marcelo Quintanilha, the AmadoraBD will feature many Portuguese authors, attesting the vitality of the current domestic production, as referred to the organization.
The 26th edition of AmadoraBD run from 23 October to 8 November. The organization hopes to welcome about 30,000 visitors.
With a budget of around 500,000 euros, the programming of AmadoraBD, with exhibitions, book signings and editorial releases, can be found at www.amadorabd.com .
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