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WITH ALL OF YOU ... AND PHILEMON MORTADELO! Prince Valiant

(PROGRAMME thousand words. 14 January 2010)

Surely someone shares with me sometime hilarious laugh with these guys that are already above 50. Surely someone has laughed just like a real crazy with some of these super bullet. Sure that today I forgot something and someone, the more fan and more knowledgeable of this work, I will remember. Sure.

But what I mean?, Whom do I mention?. Without doubt, the most famous spies of our country, Mortadelo and Philemon, Clever & Smart, or Mort & Phil. That is a guy with fur dress with white shirt and red pants, and other bald and with glasses wearing black coat, but a magician of the costumes.

These two characters were born in 1958 from the pen and hand Ibanez, one of the foremost exponents of English comics of the 50, 60 and 70. So, you met talluditos and 50, and Philemon Mortadelo have become the most popular series of English comic, the most international and almost a symbol, a way of working is almost extinct.

Ibsen's story began like many English in the 50's, seeking a steady job at a credit institution, so she went to work as a bellboy at the Foreign Bank of Spain, but left this work to engage in story altogether. In this operator is owed a huge amount of sets and characters like Family Trebizond, Leak and Otilio Pepe, 13, rue the Barnacle, Rompetechos, The Saccharin buttons ... but it is with Mortadelo and Philemon with those reached success. I would add that not only success, but coming of age as an author and his masterpiece, but the excessive highs and lows of this series can not elevate it this way, ie as one of the great cartoonists.

Despite its success, undoubtedly, unquestionably, deserved, Ibanez might have been something else. There condemn the English Tragedy I commend itself to oblivion and foreign, and this comic and many of the School Bruguera has happened so that his satirical and parodic tone seems to have relegated to a lower step in the assessment of his work. It is not always the inferiority complex which makes the English authors less known authors critically, how to work the piece with several series of parallel, several weekly newspapers, royalty-free, unsigned, no schedules, preventing them from develop a greater potential. A potential that could have overshadowed many of the reputations of the authors enjoyed with cut Belgian comic series. Raf, Vazquez, Escobar, Bernet or Ibanez being equal, would have been at the height of Morris, Uderzo, Goscinny and Herge, but that's another story that must be told another time. Occasion that will never exist.

Bah, let the ramblings. Mortadelo and Philemon, Information Agency, was the series that began in 1958. It was a parody of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, which was developing a story in just one page, six rows of bullets, which, by necessity, always ended badly. Critics speak of this as an early stage of the series, and four distinct stages. I, and forgive immodesty, spoke of three stages, short stories, the long histories with Bruguera and life after Bruguera. Throughout this first stage in the stories passed from one page to two, there is also an evolution in the characters and stories. His appearance, the graphic becomes smooth. Philemon traits become more harmonious, change the clothes you about Sherlock Holmes, your property appears Mortadelo bow and leaves the bowler and umbrella, which opened for business. The stories, though still have very hungry scripts, develop a little more and stop having an argument more like a farce than a naración popular mature. I note that this account has made this classification based on their experience as a reader remembers Mortadelo and Olé in the collection, long stories short stories were complemented dazzled not as much as the others and were introduced as fillers. The truth is that this is done without any editorial notice, reading became an exercise especulatorio, you do not know if I was reading stories about the characters themselves or others, the same author, or the same time. Over time and access to more channels of information, I have found the key, but I am sure that better editing would have a character of quality to the publication, to the series and would have had a better critique. Again the ramblings!.

Finally, in 1969 published Atomic Sulfate, the first long history Mortadelo and Philemon, and, along with a handful of long stories these characters and 13, rue the Barnacle best of Ibanez. With this album opens the prime of the characters, sales success, and champions of the publisher, they get their own magazine in 1970. To reconcile the longest stories in magazines more frequently, Ibanez used to create chapters four, six or eight pages that are published in the journal and are autoconclusivos. In the action of the story correspond generally to what occurred during a day. The union of several of these chapters, six to twelve, are the album to be published in Collection Olé. And many of these Super Olé Men make up a book or Super Humor Humor. It is also a profitable period, a fertile period in which the car is hit in the narrative structure of the series, leaves the humor displayed saitinesco and skits, visual jokes, absurd humor, entanglement, puns, black humor, etc. . The drawing, pure Ibáñez, is the more carefully. And the characters and places common and recurrent in the series are born in this era. It must include the TIA, the Superintendent Vincent, professor Bacterio Saturnino, the secretary Ofelia. Who can not remember the shoe phone, the secret entrances, cambiazo machine?.

During the period from 1969 to 1989, the situation in English life undergoes a sea change, too Mortadelo and Philemon. I do not know whether the exhaustion of ideas, the saturation of work or other circumstances are to blame, but it is true that the quality of the series begins to decline after 1979. There is an important fact, six row of bullets in 1958, passed in 1970 by five and four in 1979 (metabolic Processors) and the amount of things that each page has considerably decreased. This added to repetition of gags, stories, a child care of drawing and color and the introduction of rabid present in the stories make the quality, but no success, falling almost exponentially.

Bruguera output can not be categorized as easy. A trial and the loss of copyright starring stage low quality of the stories, often conducted by a team of editorial Bruguera or Ediciones B. The disappearance in 1996 of the periodical magazines meant so paradójica, una recuperación de la calidad de Mortadelo y Filemón, que solo verían ya su publicación en formato álbum directamente. A mi juicio, nunca se recuperaría el espíritu del Mortadelo de Los Mercenarios , y la inclusión de historias muy cercanas a la actualidad, el intento de realizar sátira política y de sociedad, han sido los que han acabado de dar la puntilla a una idea que, por original y distinta al resto, triunfó. El agotamiento de una historia de más de 50 años, también ha provocado la sequía de ideas.

La relación de las historietas largas de estos personajes protagonizadas hasta la fecha es la siguiente:

As I have all my favorites. Of course, The Atomic Sulphate, the best, without hesitation, on an artistic level of all stories. Courageous reporting in 1969, a surprising military regime and the story told. Then there are Panic at the Zoo, The Mercenaries, The cambiazo Machine, Box of Ten Locks, The Witch and the World 78. All of them are united by a personal approach and a few others sentimental, but are united by a common exponent, are pre-1980 stories. Prior to the appearance in my life other comics and other interests, and, interestingly, included in the classical stage of the series. Perhaps not much chance, because the appearance of these comics in the English market revolutionized and ended the monopoly of Bruguera and the preeminence of his style. And thus with Ibanez untouchable status.

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Lastly, if this does not work for another day, I assure you that I left many things to say . Some know them, sometimes not. If someone wants to write or comment something, so be it. But stating one thing, Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock, Buster Keaton in a tornado and Philemon Mortadelo and in many cases, have been the cause of my greatest fits of laughter. Despite the criticism I have an immense love them. At all.

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