Hot LA, which will be priced at just 85 pesos, links four short and forceful stories about how the conflict transcends racial differences to reveal nuances in an environment permeated by violence. It is a story that, unfortunately, has a burning topicality now revealed by the Black Lives Matter movement.
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That happened in Los Angeles in 1992 as a result of police brutality in the arrest of African-American taxi driver Rodney King, protests overflowed and the National Guard had to intervene.Īfter six days of clashes, there were a balance of 63 dead, more than 2,000 injured, 7,000 arson and 3,100 damaged establishments. Hot LA, of Horacio Altuna , describes how the common goal of fighting racism and injustice manages to put aside the rivalry between two iconic gangs, the Creeds and the Bloods. He has organized and participated in various comic festivals and founded a couple of publishing houses. He has exhibited his works in Chile, Spain, Argentina, Italy, the United States and Colombia.Ĭarlos Reyes (Santiago de Chile, 1967) is a comic book writer, audiovisual communicator, teacher and founder of website for which he writes articles and conducts interviews on graphic storytelling. He is also the author of comics Lemur Dragon Y Flemish!, and is one of the cartoonists of the saga Heredia Detective. Rodrigo Elgueta (Santiago de Chile, 1971), cartoonist and professor of plastic arts, has worked as an illustrator for various publishers.
This graphic novel, published in Chile in 2015, was worthy of the awards for best comic, best cartoonist and best scriptwriter at the Santiago International Comic Festival in 2016 and will be available to readers for only 140 pesos. A black banner in the history of Latin America. The conflict will culminate three years later with the assault by the military on the Palacio de la Moneda, the overthrow of the constitutional government and the establishment of a dictatorship that plunged the country into terror. , and the coalition of progressive forces united around the president. In the course of his journalistic work, he is linked to a couple of militants of the Popular Unity, which leads him to the center of the dispute between the reaction that, allied with foreign capital, tries at all costs to protect their interests and class privileges. Epic and tragedy, dignity and betrayal, brutal repression and resistance are present in this book.Īn American correspondent is sent to Chile in 1970 to cover the elections that gave victory to Salvador Allende. One of the first titles in this collection is The Allende years, of Rodrigo Elgueta and Carlos Reyes, where history and fiction are combined to give the reader an overview of what was the thousand days of the first socialist government of Chile elected by the vote at the polls. THE FCE ALREADY HAS THE FIRST TWO TITLES OF THE POPULAR COLLECTION COMIC 4įor a long time graphic novels They were considered a minor genre of literature and then, with their rise, they became cult copies and were sold at prices inaccessible to most readers, for this reason the Economic Culture Fund (FCE) He decided to add to his catalog within the Popular collection, titles and emblematic authors of the graphic narrative.
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