The Ethernautamania He arrived at the Book Fair. The Hector Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López’s In the green pavilion, in stand 917 of the planet publishing house, the pile of specimens flew and since Monday they are waiting for the “replacement” for “this week” in two formats: soft cover ($ 27,700) and hard cover ($ 53,200). In the Cuspid bookstore, they report that it is “exhausted” and that they sold “a lot” from the premiere of the series. The fervor for this graphic novel of Argentine Science Fiction, originally published in 106 deliveries from 1975 to 1959 in the magazine Weekly zero hourextends to the Netflix truck, full of the famous snow -stained cascades, which is close to the entrance to Sarmiento Avenue. Two young people with black shirts with the name of the series at chest height and the infallible red n on the back, pose masked for photos with the cartoon fans and the series.
The Eternaluta truck arrived on Tuesday and will stay until Friday. Victoria Ramos and Mateo Faurlin are the young black t -shirt young people who take the photos with the Netflix truck and deliver a gift poster. After the “Photo Session”, the Uruguayan Ibéro Laventure says that it just arrived in Buenos Aires. Professor of literature and author of books of poems and stories, clarifies that he likes the cartoon. “The first I read was The Eternaluta With the drawings of (Alberto) Breccia, which was a commercial failure, but it is even more political than the original, ”recalls Ibéro and confirms that he saw the series.“ I really liked adaptations, I loved the soundtrack; that Manal sounds, that Lucas sing a Billy Bond theme seemed wonderful. The problem is that you have to see another season to understand the story a little more ”, observes and highlights the performance of his compatriot, the Uruguayan César Troncoso, as Alfredo“ Tano ”Favalli.
Planeta reported that they sold 1,500 copies only on the La Rural site. HD, whose strong are the balance books, sold everything he had. In the Crumb comic (stand 121, blue pavilion) have 100 orders and are “angry” with the editorial, which is not delivering specimens. In our America (Stand 139, Blue Pavilion) the book sold out on Sunday. In Dial Book (Stand 402, Blue Pavilion) sold 50 copies, Gabriel emphasizes. His colleague, Christian, of Betina/HD, condenses what is happening in a phrase: “You put it and fly; it does not last or thirty minutes.” And he adds that before the series there was not so much interest. Gabriel points out that The Eternaluta He was raised by Kirchnerism with the Nestornauta. “For Peronist militancy The Eternaluta It always existed; For the rest of society, no. ” The Eternaluta. The calling dog and other stories ($ 9,000), a story that Sergio Kern wrote in 1982 at the request of Solano López and that only made the first chapter. In colihue (stand 710, yellow pavilion) can be achieved The Eternaluta and other science fiction storiesfrom Oesterheld ($ 14,600) and The Eternaluta and other storiesfrom Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia ($ 36,500).
This Thursday between 17 and 19, the Planeta Group, in alliance with Netflix, will carry out several “activations” and draws of cartoon specimens, in addition to the presence of cosplayers characterized as the characters in the series. On Friday at 20.30, in the Victoria Ocampo room, the talk “El Eternalauta, the series: of the comic to the screen” will be held, with the participation of one of the scriptwriters and director of the series, Bruno Stagnaro; the executive producer, Matías Mosteirín; the Vice President of Content for Latin America of Neflix, Francisco Ramos; and the creative consultant and grandson of the author of the work, Martín M. Oesterheld.
“I imagine that the natural path that is produced in the public today will be mostly from the series to the book,” says Tomás Linch, editor of Planet Comic, the seal that publishes the work of Oesterheld. “The series are today the most popular and widespread cultural consumption format of the planet. In that sense, The Eternaluta It has everything to be the best in the world: it is incredibly well done, well acted and, in its adaptation, it retains the best of the original work to give: a bulletproof narrative (and of mortal snowfall) and a moral support that gives it meaning and depth. If we add Argentine … it is the perfect combo. I understand that many readers will approach the graphic novel (for the first or second time) for various reasons: because they want to know how they continue, because they want to see the differences, because they never read a graphic novel and it is a great opportunity to start or to confirm whether Oesterheld began the story in the house of Salvo and not in Favalli’s. From my side, as an editor, I am happy that people discover or rediscover this work that is within the five most important of our twentieth century literature. And that, after the series, makes us want to breastfeed and bring our national pride to the world. ”
