Thursday, July 9
2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
CAFÉ TANGO • History of Argentine comics with Juan Sáenz Valiente
Price : FREE
From Monday 6 to Saturday 11 July, Café Tango, presented by Serge Davy and Solange Bazely, welcomes you to the meeting space of the Ombres Blanches Bookstore for passionate and exciting encounters around tango and its culture.
Take this opportunity to discover and purchase books about tango on site, including of course those written by the authors we have invited, all of whom will be more than happy to sign them for you.
Doors open at 2pm every day.
✦ "History of Argentine comics"
During this Café Tango Talk, Juan Sáenz Valiente will introduce us to the treasures of the Argentine school of comics, a "historieta" that has influenced many cartoonists and writers around the world. We will encounter the work of Alberto Breccia, Jose Muñoz, Hugo Pratt, Héctor Oesterheld, creator of "L'Eternaute," as well as Carlos Sampayo, Francesco Solano López… We will discuss magazines with print runs of thousands of copies, such as "Frontera" and "Misterix," which defined the Golden Age of Argentine comics, from 1940 to the early 1960s, much like the Golden Age of tango, which also influenced Argentine comics, as Juan Sáenz Valiente will explain.
Juan Sáenz Valiente
Juan Sáenz Valiente was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has lived in France since 2022.
From a very young age, Juan was interested in comics and cartoons. After school, he would join his father's animation studio and observe the meticulous and laborious work of constructing images.
In 2003 he directed a short animated film “Jubilados” (“Retirees”), a film that garnered significant attention in Argentina, in which retirees express, through artistic gymnastics and acrobatics, their melancholic vision of life.
In 2010, he illustrated "The Hypnotist" from a script by Pablo de Santis (published by Casterman), a graphic novel adapted into a TV series on HBO. Also with Pablo de Santis, Juan Sáenz Valiente, aka Juanungo, drew the fantasy thriller "Cobalt" (published by Michel Lafon). He received the Carlos Trillo Prize, named after another great master of Argentine comics, with whom Juanungo created the graphic novel "Sarna" (published by Albin Michel).
In 2018, he wrote and illustrated "Sudestada" (Ed. Michel Lafon), a must-read!
In 2023, "L'animateur" (Ed. Delcourt) was published, a funny and moving story, which gives a magnificent account of his father's last work.
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