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 welcomes you to the meeting space of the Ombres Blanches Bookstore for passionate and exciting encounters around tango and its culture, presented by Serge Davy and Solange Bazely.
Take the opportunity to discover and purchase books on tango on site, including of course those by the authors present, who will be happy to sign them for you.
Doors open at 2pm every day.
✦ «History of Argentine comics»
Lors de ce Café Tango, Juan Sáenz Valiente nous fera découvrir les trésors de l’école argentine de la bande dessinée, cette « historieta » qui a influencé nombre de dessinateurs et scénaristes à travers le monde. Nous croiserons Alberto Breccia, Jose Muñoz, Hugo Pratt, Héctor Oesterheld, créateur de « L’Eternaute » ou encore Carlos Sampayo, Francesco Solano López… Seront évoqués les magazines tirés à des milliers d’exemplaires, comme « Frontera », « Misterix » qui ont fait l’Âge d’or de la bande dessinée argentine, c’est-à-dire de 1940 au début des années 60, un peu comme l’Âge d’or du tango, qui a aussi intéressé la bande dessinée argentine comme Juan Sáenz Valiente nous le racontera.
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, magnificent about his father's last work.
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