Melvin vs. E.T. The story of Joaquín Blázquez (2006)

Melvin vs. E.T. The story of Joaquín Blázquez (2006)

Melvin, by Blázquez. 8 pages of the character (1975). Documentary by The Black Box Productions about the Spanish cartoonist who accused Spielberg of plagiarism, about which there are many references on the internet but I don't think it was ever finished. I have not been able to find a link to news about

Melvin vs. E.T. The Story of Joaquín Blázquez (2006)

Melvin vs. E.T. The Story of Joaquín Blázquez (2006)

Teaser/trailer of the documentary rescued from the bowels of the internet. Documentary by La caja Negra Producciones about the Spanish cartoonist who accused Steven Spielberg of plagiarism, about which there are many references on the internet but I don't think it was ever finished. I have not been able to find any link

Eight cartoonists at the gates of prison

Eight cartoonists at the gates of prison

Andalan, 13 to 19 March 1981 Forty years, the same stories If complaints, denunciations and trials for"offences against religious feelings" seem almost daily occurrences today, during the last throes of Franco's regime, they were also commonplace. Here is the story of the last attempt, during the mandate of the last Francoist corporation in

The death of Pepe the Frog

The death of Pepe the Frog

That's an understatement, because in the internet ecosystem, to "kill" a popular character it is not enough to stop drawing him or her or to draw his or her death. When a drawing enters the meme universe, there is little the author can do to remove it. The usual thing is that attempts

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, self portrait. (1983) In March 2017, two cartoonists, friends and prominent figures of the American underground comic industry died. On March 5, Jay Patrick Lynch (1945) died and shortly after, on the night of Thursday, March 16, Mervyn "Skip" Williamson (1944), considered one of the architects of the alternative comic movement,