I recently became acquainted with a few comics by Fran Lopez. If you don’t know, Fran López is a cartoonist and musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina now living in New York. That’s what he says anyway and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of his claims. The comics of Fran Lopez, I have read, are 5.5” x 8.5” 28-page books printed in black and white.
Each title contains fantastical short stories that may or not be connected to each other. Each dabbles in a bit of magical realism. Or at least suggests that things are not what they seem in an alien sort of way. Lopez’s style is clean lines with short almost morse code pen jabs. This creates a feeling of inanimate objects being slightly animated. As a bonus, each book comes with a risograph print of Fran’s artwork.
Must Be A Happening
Must Be a Happening contains two separate stories. The first, “Something Else,” is about a mysterious horse head that appears in the streets of a small, probably fictitious village. “One Thousand Days” is a space traveler’s diary of his time on a distant planet. What happens on the one-thousandth day? No spoiler alerts here.
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Fascination comic by Fran Lopez
Fascination also features two comic tales relateing to each other in a way that has not been fully revealed. That’s what imaginations are for. “Have YOU Tried the Intergalactic Flavor of Comet Cookies?” stars a woman who is recognized in public as the star of some long ago cookie commercial. Things get weird soon after. “Waiting” is about an otherworldly newborn in an incubator and a mother who is waiting for a certain day to come. Buy Fascination by Fran Lopez from the RoosterCow Store.
Still Making Your Diary Comics?
Still Making Your Diary Comics? concerns a cartoonist who finds himself in a creative rut. He once again, turns to mining his life for material. “Write about what you know”, they say. What the protagonist knows, however, is alien babies. Includes a risograph print.
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