Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper and his wife and daughter moved to the beautiful, 15th-century colonial town of Oaxaca in 2006, they planned to spend a quiet year or two enjoying a different culture and taking a break from the U.S. political climate under the Bush administration. What they hadn't counted on was landing in the epicenter of Mexico's biggest political struggle in recent years. Timely and compelling, this extraordinary firsthand account presents a distinct artistic vision of Oaxacan life, from explorations of the beauty of the environment to graphic portrayals of the fight between strikers and government troops that left more than 20 people dead, including American journalist Brad Will.
Diario de Oaxaca - A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
Peter Kuper
PM Press
2009
208 páginas
6h 56m
ISBN-13: 9781604860719
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Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper é cofundador da revista política World War 3 Illustrated. Desde 1997, escreveu e desenhou Spy vs. Spy para todos os números da MAD. Kuper produziu mais de vinte livros, entre eles The System e uma adaptação de A metamorfose, de Franz Kafka. Morou em Oaxaca, no México, de julho de 2006 a 2008, quando houve uma importante greve de professores, e o trabalho que fez nessa época pode ser visto em Diario de Oaxaca. Kuper ministra cursos de quadrinhos há 25 anos em Nova York e é professor visitante na Universidade de Harvard. Confira no Blog da Boitempo, a adaptação que Peter Kuper do panfleto irônico de Jonathan Swift, 'Uma proposta modesta', aos quadrinhos: aqui.
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