El arte de construir

Adivina adivinarás es un libro de adivinanzas sobre objetos conocidos de la vida cotidiana. Destaca en él la imaginación, la habilidad y la creatividad de la autora, el lenguaje coloquial y accesible, los juegos de palabras... Adivinanzas de una excelente calidad, ingeniosas y geniales, que divertirán al lector.

Joe Sacco's books offer both sharp insight into the complexities of global politics and extraordinary glimpses of the everyday people who live in a war zones. He has been favorably compared with Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman for his ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the comic book medium. Sacco's groundbreaking first book, Palestine, was based on the author's months of research in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted more than 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews.

Título: HISTORIAS CORRIENTES. NI TANGO NI BOHEMIA. Resumen: Año 1936, 67,5 metros de altura. Imperturbable falo de cemento blanco instalado en el centro de la avenida mas ancha del mundo. Si fuera un simbolo, significaría algo. Si fuera un totem, tendría sus devotos. Si fuera una pieza arquitectónica, tendría estilo. Pero el obelisco es y seguirá siendo un misterio para todos nosotros. Un polo de atracción continua e injustificada, un folklore sinsentido, un capricho porteño... como tantos. Leemos el centro de Buenos Aires y vemos que la fábula se erige sobre un amarradero fluvial...

Isaac is a struggling but gifted painter in pre-revolutionary France. With pressing financial troubles and a strong-minded fiancee, he takes a temporary job as a naval painter on a ship delivering supplies to the New World. This is the simple beginning to a not-so-simple tale, for things are not quite what they seem. The boat is not out on a short cruise, but a lengthy and dangerous expedition led by Captain John the Pillager, a successful and charismatic pirate possessed by a touch of madness to rival Herman Melville's Ahab. WINNER OF THE 2002 ALPH ART AWARD FOR 'BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM' at the...