Fear of comics, Beto Hernández (Fantagraphics Books)
I love Beto Hernández´s work because it takes you far and beyond the possibilities of comics, exploring at the same time highly original stories with really crazy ones. This album compiles a bunch of short stories that can blow up your head!
Rebétiko, David Prudhomme (Ediciones Sinsentido)
This comic has been greatly inspiring for me. It´s colorful drawings are amazingly good and very expressive, but the story it´s capable of showing with remarkable depth the insights of Rebetiko, a beautiful popular greek music from the 1920’s.
Viñetas para una crisis, El Roto (Reservoir Books)
El Roto is possibly the best satirical artist in the world, because his precise drawings, black and sharp as Goya´s paintings, are equally good as his deep philosophical texts. This book is a compilation of his best panels regarding the world’s crisis.
Bumf, Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics Books)
Here Sacco returns to his first humoristic work in a delirious set of comics dealing with the misery of a nightmarish USA government, in which Nixon and Obama are really the same person. The humor gets really dark as it shows through bizarre metaphors the cruelty of the world today.
El manual de mi mente, Paco Alcázar (Grijalbo Mondadori)
Paco Alcázar is one of my favorite draftsmans in Spain. I admire his ability to change graphic registers, as well as the uneasiness of the humor que uses. The book shows a selection of short stories, and will assure you some pretty good laughs, as well as really weird things to think about.