Carlos Sampayo

Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation, Munoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz. By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Munoz strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute."

BILLIE HOLIDAY

José Munoz

Sudor Sudaca. Una Storia Argentina.

José Muñoz

New York, una sera di fine anni Ottanta. Proprio mentre sta per lasciare la redazione e tornare a casa da una donna che lo aspetta, un giornalista viene incastrato dal suo capo, che gli commissiona un profilo di «Lady Day», ormai un'artista affermata e conosciuta in tutto il mondo, da consegnare entro poche ore. Per scriverlo prende a documentarsi, con iniziale riluttanza verso un personaggio di cui conosce poco o niente e che per lui è solo un ostacolo che lo intralcia nel suo obiettivo di una notte di passione. Subito però viene rapito dalla storia di Billie, che diventerà la sua sola compagnia per tutte le ore che lo separano dall'alba. È con il suo stesso stupore che il lettore si affaccia sulla vita tormentata della Holiday e di quella sua voce immortale in cui si sono rispecchiate intere generazioni. La discriminazione razziale, la carriera minata dai problemi con droghe e alcol, la fraterna amicizia con Lester Young: in poche pagine si snodano tutti gli elementi che hanno fatto dell'autrice di «Strange Fruit» una leggenda, tragica e indimenticabile, del jazz. Prefazione di Nicola Lagioia.

Billie Holiday

Alack Sinner is the archetypal American detective: honest but cynical, a misanthrope and loner but defender of the defenseless, an anti-hero that solves cases as he ponders himself and his existence. Mu�oz and Sampayo transcend the conventions of the genre.

Alack Sinner

Cien años después de su nacimiento, la inimitable voz de Billie Holiday sigue hechizando a los amantes de la buena música. Sus cualidades vocales, su dominio del swing y la intensidad de sus interpretaciones, fruto de las heridas que la vida le infligió desde una edad temprana, la convirtieron en una gran estrella del jazz, y a pesar de su prematura desaparición, su arte ha permanecido imborrable en nuestra memoria.

Jose Munoz

Joe's Bar is a waystation on the boulevard of broken dreams, a dark harbor for slowly sinking ships, a lost-and-found center for lost souls trying to find themselves in a violent world. The air is smoky and smells of Raymond Chandler's cigarettes, but there are no heroes here - only the heroism of frail lonely humans looking for a way out of the labyrinth of their own alienation, searching for affection, self-esteem, a way to survive twenty-four more hours. There's a profound sadness and tenderness in these stories of a haunting kind never seen in comics before.

Joe's Bar

Nel bar

Alack Sinner: The Age of Innocence is the first of two volumes that present for the first time in English the complete Alack Sinner comics by the Argentine-born team of artist Jose Munoz and writer Carlos Sampayo. Sinner is a hard-boiled private detective whose adventures are played out to a jazz soundtrack in a noir New York from 1975 through the 2000s. The stories are imbued with a deep political conscience and present a scathing critique of corruption in society, juxtaposed with meditations on the nature of violence and exile. The authors have rearranged the stories in chronological order of the characters and events, rather than dates of first publication, providing a novel reading experience for both new fans and old. The Age of Innocence collects eleven stories, including Talkin with Joe, The Webster Case, The Fillmore Case, Viet Blues, Life Ain t a Comic Strip, Baby, Twinkle, Twinkle, and Dark City. Alack Sinner is an international bestseller and between them Munoz and Sampayo are winners of Europe s top comics awards."

The Age of Innocence

Javier Coma

Francisco Solano Lopez

Tegneserie. Blanding af hårdkogte historier og politikrimier, der finder sted i Buenos Airtes sent i 1950erne

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