Fran López
@franniferlopez.bsky.social
historietista / músico | cartoonist / musician https://franlopez.info
The date commemorates the launch, in 1957, of this magazine, whose back cover included this definition:
"We believe to be in the line of good comics, understanding good to mean comics that are strong, comics that know how to be both tough and cheerful, violent and human," (continues)
"We believe to be in the line of good comics, understanding good to mean comics that are strong, comics that know how to be both tough and cheerful, violent and human," (continues)
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The date commemorates the launch, in 1957, of this magazine, whose back cover included this definition:
"We believe to be in the line of good comics, understanding good to mean comics that are strong, comics that know how to be both tough and cheerful, violent and human," (continues)
"We believe to be in the line of good comics, understanding good to mean comics that are strong, comics that know how to be both tough and cheerful, violent and human," (continues)
September 4 is, in Argentina, both Comics Day and Immigrants Day. There's a very direct line that starts with me reading comics and ends up with me becoming an immigrant. Someone is out there making a comic today, having no clue how it might shape somebody else's life. Cheers!
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
September 4 is, in Argentina, both Comics Day and Immigrants Day. There's a very direct line that starts with me reading comics and ends up with me becoming an immigrant. Someone is out there making a comic today, having no clue how it might shape somebody else's life. Cheers!
Catching up with the latest trends in literature. Turns out it’s good! 👍
August 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Catching up with the latest trends in literature. Turns out it’s good! 👍
“Fun” fact: almost every time I’ve gone to this store I’ve bought a Jason book. Please buy my comics so I can keep up with my “tradition”.
August 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Fun” fact: almost every time I’ve gone to this store I’ve bought a Jason book. Please buy my comics so I can keep up with my “tradition”.
You can now buy some of my comics at Brooklyn’s own Unnameable Books!
August 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You can now buy some of my comics at Brooklyn’s own Unnameable Books!
Every time I start a new comic feels like I need to relearn it all from scratch. // Cada vez que agarro el pincel es la paradoja de Zenón: toda página es un milagro imposible.
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Every time I start a new comic feels like I need to relearn it all from scratch. // Cada vez que agarro el pincel es la paradoja de Zenón: toda página es un milagro imposible.
The last story there is a comic I would’ve loved to make, but most likely never will. Luckily, Alexis Nolla already made the closest thing in ¡A la aventura! (another book desperately waiting for a translation, this time to English).
August 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The last story there is a comic I would’ve loved to make, but most likely never will. Luckily, Alexis Nolla already made the closest thing in ¡A la aventura! (another book desperately waiting for a translation, this time to English).
English has been rekindling itself to Rachel Ingalls (just like Spanish has been, a little earlier, with Sarah Gallardo). Pearl Killers is a book waiting for New Directions to do its thing (and, also, desperately waiting for a Spanish translation), but it’s still easy to come by second hand.
August 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
English has been rekindling itself to Rachel Ingalls (just like Spanish has been, a little earlier, with Sarah Gallardo). Pearl Killers is a book waiting for New Directions to do its thing (and, also, desperately waiting for a Spanish translation), but it’s still easy to come by second hand.
I’ve enjoyed every Quentin Dupieux movie I’ve watched, but Daaaaaalí! is the one I feel went deeper. Also, every single actor playing every instance of Dalí makes something that should be an uphill battle (Dali was already an actor playing a character) feel like a game of joy.
July 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ve enjoyed every Quentin Dupieux movie I’ve watched, but Daaaaaalí! is the one I feel went deeper. Also, every single actor playing every instance of Dalí makes something that should be an uphill battle (Dali was already an actor playing a character) feel like a game of joy.
Big, Little and Far by (American treasure) Jim Cohen is currently playing here in New York at the IFC Center. I got to watch it almost a year ago and I still think about it.
July 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Big, Little and Far by (American treasure) Jim Cohen is currently playing here in New York at the IFC Center. I got to watch it almost a year ago and I still think about it.
“Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah.”
July 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah.”
This morning I reread @tomgauld.bsky.social’s Moon Cop as a metaphor for making comics. Haven’t read it since it came out. Still great.
July 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This morning I reread @tomgauld.bsky.social’s Moon Cop as a metaphor for making comics. Haven’t read it since it came out. Still great.
May-September. Two mangas about finding the spark for making comics. One at the beginning, the other one after a lot has already gone through (both for authors and characters). Feels like BL Metamorphosis didn't really enter the radar "in my circles"? Fascinating to read them together.
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
May-September. Two mangas about finding the spark for making comics. One at the beginning, the other one after a lot has already gone through (both for authors and characters). Feels like BL Metamorphosis didn't really enter the radar "in my circles"? Fascinating to read them together.
I mean, look at these Leopardi pages from some random episode
June 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I mean, look at these Leopardi pages from some random episode
Open debate: Is this one guilty of forced exposition? Only one way to find out…
June 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Open debate: Is this one guilty of forced exposition? Only one way to find out…
Two thick books that should but will never happen: Enrique Cristobal's Comics with Oesterheld and Robin Wood.
Dos libros que nunca se publicarán, pero deberían: Las historietas de Enrique Cristóbal con Oesterheld y Robin Wood.
Dos libros que nunca se publicarán, pero deberían: Las historietas de Enrique Cristóbal con Oesterheld y Robin Wood.
June 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Two thick books that should but will never happen: Enrique Cristobal's Comics with Oesterheld and Robin Wood.
Dos libros que nunca se publicarán, pero deberían: Las historietas de Enrique Cristóbal con Oesterheld y Robin Wood.
Dos libros que nunca se publicarán, pero deberían: Las historietas de Enrique Cristóbal con Oesterheld y Robin Wood.
“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”
June 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”
If you find yourself in NYC you should stop whatever you’re doing, take yourself to Desert Island, get my comics, read them the minute you step outside the store (in the street, yes, it’s perfect reading weather today) and then write to tell me exactly how you feel about them.
June 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you find yourself in NYC you should stop whatever you’re doing, take yourself to Desert Island, get my comics, read them the minute you step outside the store (in the street, yes, it’s perfect reading weather today) and then write to tell me exactly how you feel about them.
Kind of obsessed with these zero views informative YouTube videos about SPX. AI really is bringing forth a golden era of content!
June 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Kind of obsessed with these zero views informative YouTube videos about SPX. AI really is bringing forth a golden era of content!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Magnetismo total / Brilliant acting
June 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Magnetismo total / Brilliant acting
An alternate history of English-language comics in which Akira Toriyama’s Manga Workshop was published in the USA in 1992, before Understanding Comics. Just think of the consequences! Chris Ware’s 400 page book trying to prove Toriyama was wrong about “action”!
June 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
An alternate history of English-language comics in which Akira Toriyama’s Manga Workshop was published in the USA in 1992, before Understanding Comics. Just think of the consequences! Chris Ware’s 400 page book trying to prove Toriyama was wrong about “action”!