Download Streak of Chalk by Miguelanxo Prado (.CBR)

itzAmrit Comics, Ebooks

Streak of Chalk by Miguelanxo Prado
Requirements: CBR Reader, 40 MB.
Overview: A small streak of an island in the Atlantic. On no map. In heavy summer heat. Memories and messages graffitied on the pier wall. A chance encounter with a beautiful elusive woman. A murder. Or was it? Nothing seems completely real. Only the graffitied memories are constant.

        After a suffering a summer storm, a lone traveler arrives with his boat to a lost island that doesn’t appear in the maps. In the island there is only a small inn runned by a woman and her son, a lighthouse that doesn’t work and a pier with a wall full of messages written by travelers. Later he meets an evasive young woman who is also passing through the island, waiting for someone…

        The island is an allegory of incommunication and the loneliness it causes.

    "Streak of Chalk" is the most famous work by Miguelanxo Prado. It was nominated for the two most important awards in USA: the Eisners (best illustrator) and the Harveys (best foreign work).

Genre: Comics, Mature Reader, Mysterie, Romance.

      Image

Streak of Chalk

    Miguelanxo Prado artist
    Published by NBM Publishing, 1994.

      Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine meets John Fowles’s The Magus in this graphic novel about curious characters on a spit of uncharted island in the middle of nowhere. The island, with its deserted lighthouse, general store/bar/inn, and two sullen inhabitants easily seems mysterious. Add to that a few guarded, secretive visitors and this isolated atmosphere needs little imagination-on the part of reader or characters-to make ordinary circumstances seem sinister, perhaps murderous. Although the story is sparse, there’s intrigue, sex and, more importantly, Spanish artist Prado’s sumptuous illustrations and exquisite use of colors, to keep the reader’s attention. Starting with vividly clear greens and blues, the colors changes with the mood of the narrative, with lavender-streaked shadows moving in as the mystery grows, while deeper blues and reddish browns signal violence and loss. A fine first title from NBM’s just launched ComicsLit imprint of graphic novels from around the world.

        The Prado’s Masterpiece, Reviewed by David Rodríguez Mosteiro on June 11, 2001.

          In Streak of Chalk, Prado brings to comic’s world themes developed by Jorge Luis Borges and Bioy Casares mixed with his personal imaginery: The Atlantic Ocean, solitude, melancholia, perception of reality and the human nature are the subjects treated in this great graphic novel by one of the artist who gives significance to the expresion "9th Art"

          If you like Borges,Bioy Casares, Ingmar Bergman or David Lynch, this is your graphic novel.

          (pardon for my very-bad english)

Note: If you like the book and want to help and support the author, please consider to buy from NBM Publishing.

Download Instructions:
http://corneey.com/wK6yaX — Streak of Chalk (1994)




Leave a Reply