The publisher Editora Veneta just announced the release of Gabo- Memories
of a Magic Life, a biography about the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
The script is by Óscar Pantoja, winner of the Alejo Caprentier award in 2001,
and illustrated by four Colombian graphic artists: Miguel Bustos, Felipe
Camargo, Tatiana Córdoba and Julián Naranjo.
The graphic novel narrates the life of the writer from his
childhood, in Aracataca, until winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1982.
The release will be in May, but the publisher hasn’t divulged details about the
format or price.
The work was originally published by Spanish publisher Sins
Entido, last year, and almost arrived in Brazil through Editora Record.
Gabriel García Márquez died today, April 17, at 87, in his
house in Mexico. He was fighting a relapse of cancer that struck his lungs,
ganglion and liver. Weakened by the disease, he was receiving treatment in his
house.
(Original article: Editora Veneta anuncia biografia deGabriel García Márquez em quadrinhos, written by Samir Naliato on April 17,
2014. Reprinted and translated with permission by UniversoHQ)
That was fast. Gabo has not been picked up by an English publisher yet.
NBM, Fantagraphics, or Abrams could very likely translate and distribute the
book stateside. Stay tuned to Culture of Comics for more information regarding
the inevitable English language release. Bluewater Productions is famous for printing timely comic-styled biographies about celebrities, politicians or anyone else in the current events.
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