Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
Published almost 50 years ago in legendary magazines such as Dossier Negro or S.O.S., Aleta Ediciones recovers 20 horror stories written by the great Joan Boix, some of them based on masterful stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer or Edgar Allan Poe.
Horror classic literature adapted to comic in magazines as Creepy now in a hardback volume.
Catbeth, general of the cat kingdom, returns from war and is on his way home with his friend Jacko when he stumbles upon three witches who reveal a disturbing prophecy: the throne of cats awaits him, but He will have to pass over the corpses of his monarch and the lineage of his own friend. Together with his wife he devises a strange plan to escape of the current king, a figure he considers unworthy, since a dog would never should approach the throne of the cat kingdom. Guilt, betrayal and ambition blinds him, tragedy will be unleashed and everything will turn against him. An unfaithful adaptation of MACBETH, the famous play by William Shakespeare in which kings and courtiers are replaced by cats, dogs and rats, and that transforms the classic into a fun and anarchic madness with brushstrokes that are torn between the comic and the tragic.
SF and horror comics published previously at magazines, now compiled in a hardback volume.
We hug, kiss and cuddle when we are in love. We want to always be close to that special person and even surprise them with gifts. All these actions also take part in the animal kingdom, but not only that! Animals also present a range of endless strange behaviors that will leave you speechless: chases, choreographies and tricks are only some of the things animals do to flirt their mating partners in order to stay together. A book with a sense of humour, but with a scientific and theoretical basis, full of unusual and amusing facts that aim to arouse your curiosity through simple texts, but incorporating the terms used in this specific field, what will broaden the reader's lexicon.
Uncle Gorio, originally published on 18 November 1901 in El Adelanto, is one of the few stories written by the poet José María Gabriel y Galán.Juan Luis Iglesias and C. de Cruz, scriptwriter and cartoonist, both from Extremadura, adapt this work representative of Galán's universe to the language of comics with an original approach. Gabriel y Galán becomes the narrator and protagonist of his story by interacting with his own characters, Uncle Gorio and Aunt Pulía, a couple united by love and convenience. An entertaining comic strip that takes place during a literary gathering between Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós and Gabriel y Galán, where we are shown the vision the poet had of his countrymen, between criticism and affection, while the writers reflect on literary art and recall intimate anecdotes.A tribute to José María Gabriel y Galán, the poet of the Castilian and Extremaduran soul, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The artists of Galaxy Circus risks their lives every single day: they fly in the trapeze without a safe net, they swallow swords and fire, they are shot by cannons... Maybe for that reason they talk so much about death. Is there an afterlife? How would it be? At Galaxy Circus there are many different points of view.
I was an average girl like any other. I was going to class, I argued with my parents, I loved my friends unconditionally and, from time to time, I would fall in love with someone I shouldn't have, as happens to everyone else. There was nothing novelistic about me, nothing heroic that deserved a handful of pages, and that is why this story will not be about my parents or my colleagues or my lovers; it will not be about the routine of a high school student who is bored at school... This story will have only one main character and that character will be a nose. A famous, disproportionate nose. The nose of a hero born in Bergerac and named Cyrano.
On a February night in 1938, Gabriela Mistral was visiting writer Emilio Oribe in Uruguay when, suddenly, his little daughter burst into the room carrying a precious hidden treasure: a little fish. Esther, the girl's name, had found it by the rocks near her house, in Montevideo. The next day, inspired by what had happened, Gabriela gave Oribe this poem as a gift. Ten years later, "The Girl and The Little Fish" was published in the Chilean newspaper La Nación as an unpublished poem, which version has been recovered by Escrito con Tiza in an edition with beautiful illustrations by of the most awarded Chilean artists, Alberto Montt.
A curious album, starring animals, with which children will learn simultaneously the alphabet and all the emotions they can experience. Through the different animals, children will learn not only to write them but also to identify, understand and deal with them in a positive way.
A poetry book that leads us through a marine ride; with it, the reader will discover several beings who live under the sea waters: fishes, a whale, an octopus, and even a mermaid. At the same time, the story of two characters will be narrated: the fisherman and Raquel, who from start to finish, will explore the mysteries and secrets that are hidden in the water, simultaneously, they will observe the stars and the clouds until finding a tiger that does not know the sea.
ESPARTACUS PRIZE 2020 - "I am Don Pedro Blanco. Slave trader. Madman. Giant or monster. Mongo Blanco. The Great Wizard, the Mirror, the Sun. The King of Gallinas. Pirate. Father. Brother. From the slums of Malaga to an African throne, from the wonders of Havana to a madhouse in Barcelona. A pistol. If I had a pistol, I’d spatter the walls with my brains. This is the story of my guilt and my penitence." Following his father’s death, Pedro Blanco leaves Malaga and goes to sea in search of a better future. Both cunning and determined, he gradually makes his way in the world and becomes Mongo Blanco, one of the greatest slave traffickers of the 19th century. But when he is betrayed by somebody close to him, his fall into disgrace begins. He recounts his story to the doctor in the asylum to which he has been confined, little suspecting that his story has not yet finished and that a figure from his past has returned to collect an outstanding debt. In his final years, Mongo Blanco will have the opportunity to redeem himself or finally fall victim to his own excesses. Carlos Bardem’s latest novel is the thrilling epic of a real historical character, the powerful and legendary Mongo Blanco. Spain, Cuba and Africa provide the settings for this engrossing story, carefully documented and written with great attention to detail and astonishing emotion that will leave lovers of historical fiction, adventure novels and literature in general gasping for breath. Jonathan Littell meets Quentin Tarantino.
