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Librarian, reader, listener, writer, speaker. From the Basque Country(not Spain or France), now living in Bunurong land of the Kulin nation. Values: justice, solidarity, unionism and internationalism. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/iurgiurrutia

A screenshot showing all four panellists on the right hand side and a slide by Nick Sousanis about comics theory
A graceful, gigantic and beautiful bird soaring above a river, with a waterfall cascading in the background. A single person sits on the bird riding it. A few ships are scattered around. I could've chosen a thousand others but this is a perfect example of Moebius stunning lines and colours.
The image shows the cover of the graphic novel. In the middle the title: The Avengers: The Veracity Trap, in very classic 1960s stylised font. The image shows Loki right at the top conjuring some magic while all the avengers are depicted in action, fighting the magic. It’s all done in a very retro style.
The image shows the cover of Conspiracy Nation a book by Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson. The cover depicts imagery associated with conspiracies: an emu in front of a 5G antenna, a kangaroo holding a vaccine syringe, a big eye right in the middle with the map of Australia as its iris, pyramids, UFO, etc. A text in the middle reads: exposing the world of Australian conspiracy theories. It also has two short endorsements: “a gripping investigation” Benjamin Law and “compelling and important” Richard Glover.
The image shows the cover of Tristania’s first EP. Moubtsins, cliffs and lush green with a river and waterfall in the middle. The song playing is Cease to Exist by Tristania.
Black Sabbath in their final performance of Paranoid in the Back to the Beginning concert.
A hand holds a copy of The Nazi Mind 12 Warnings From History by Laurence Rees
The image shows multiple bookmarks from the campaign that focus on different genres. At the top, Sarah Firth’s bookmark highlights her graphic novel, the amazing Eventually Everything Connects. It also highlights her recommended reads which are: Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed, I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang, When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over by Mandy Ord and Follow Your Gut, by Alisa Wild, Ben Huthings et al. All of them excellent graphic novels by Australian creators.
A photo of Jose ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the former Uruguayan president whose deep humanity was inspiring
The cover of the In Utero graphic novel. The background is black. At the top inside a circle (which could be the moon?) it reads: IN UTERO. CHRIS GOOCH. Just under the text two kids are on top of a skull. One of them is standing, the other is sitting down. They're both looking back at the reader. The skull is not human. It's some sort of creature's with long sharp fangs. The skull is immersed in some sort of fluid that is red, blue and black. A dark and mysterious cover. Read the graphic novel!
Peter Dutton surrounded by flags and a creepy light effect that makes him look like Hannibal Lecter. Essentially, an image that perfectly encapsulates the image of himself that he's deliberately projected during his political career, that of a psychopathic thug.
Image of the crew from Planet of the Vampires by Mario Bava gathering around the communication console of the spaceship.
Upon opening the app we encounter The Call of Cthulhu on the banner and in the Don’t Miss These Recent Additions section, the first graphic novel featured is Tunis to Sydney by Christian and Meriam Carnouche.
The photo shows a very excited me pointing at the cover of the Spanish edition of Dark Knights of Steel, next to another epic Basque graphic novel.
The public library solely dedicated to manga is situated in a park.
A few shelves filled with manga tankobons. Lots of One Piece and Dragon Ball but also others.
Odawara castle was destroyed and then reconstructed
The old Tokaido Highway paved with stones. Good workout for ankles 😂
Until 1960 people lived here the traditional way. Then a massive storm destroyed the whole town in what was described as a tsunami down the mountain. Today part of the village had been reconstructed.
The imperial palace and surroundings were beautiful at sunset
Beautiful gardens and ponds in Shinjuku
Godzilla is attacking me at the Godzilla Store in Shinjuku
The outskirts of Tokyo. Beautiful little town
Silly me awkwardly pointing to the Totoro forest sign. So happy to be there.
Black garlic ramen with pork. Delicious!
The image shows four podcast episodes downloaded: 1. On the Media: How Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral. Plus… 50m 2. New Politics: Money, power and politics: Who really wins in Austr... 50m 3. Criminal: For the Sake of American Youth 1h22m 4. Democracy in Peril: Jo and Dave talk to Zack Bea... 45m
In the foreground we can see a whale's tail just out of the water. Just behind hit, there's a small boat in which a harpooner stands ready to shoot the harpoon. In the background, on the right, a large sailing ship awaits to see the outcome of the hunt.
The Art of Flying by Antonio Altarriba and Kim. The book has a dark red colour. In the middle a drawing, resembling an old photograph, depicts a man with a suitcase on a deserted road looking back at the town he's leaving behind, or maybe the town he's coming back to, with his gaze up to the sky where some birds fly. At the bottom, a little sticker says: Winner English Pen Award.
The photo shows the cover of the Spanish edition of Domu, which in Spain was titled: Pesadillas (it translated as Nightmares). On a white background, we see a little girl staring up to a mysterious cube floating in the air. The cube is blue and it’s made of an apartment complex that has been transformed into a cube. Some of the windows still have the light on
The book cover depicts a dark room, the only light coming from the sun outside the window. A small writing desk and chair face the window. we can see a little book and a lamp on the table. A series of little trinkets are scattered at the edge of the table leaning against the window. Everything else is dark.
The title is Streak of Chalk and it's written to look like it's written with chalk. We see a woman standing in the centre, holding a hat in her hand as the wind blows her skirt and hair. She's looking down to the ground where a seagull lies dead in a pool of blood. Behind her, we see a house and a big hill all made of rocks upon which stands a lighthouse. Lots of seagulls fill the purple sky.
Title: Mortadelo and Filemon: Elections. Mortadelo is talking to Filemon who is pissing himself laughing against the wall. Dr Bacterio (Bacterium), a scientists who invents weapons and gadgets for the intelligence agency they work for is escaping an angry crowd of people who are totally charred by a device that has clearly malfunctioned. Mortadelo says: Yes, an invention from Bacterium. It's a cannon that shoots 30,000 flyers of his political party a minute! The sign of Bacterio's malfunctioning cannon device has the name of the political party: Culo (which translates as arse) and stands for Cientificos Unidos Liderando el Orbe (Scientists United Leading the Earth).
The three volumes of Under Earth. Volume 1 is blue, the second is yellow and the third is red. Each cover depicts different scenes in this underground dystopian prison with too much detail for me to write here. Read the stunning graphic novel if you can.
The title of the comic is: Killeroo Gang Wars. Killeroo is a large and strong humanoid roo with attitude. Standing somewhere in the Australian outback, his arms are crossed across the chest and he looks pissed off. He’s the leader of a bike gang and his wearing a leather jacket. Two other members of his bike gang stand behind him. You wouldn’t want to mess with these guys.
The cover of the Basque edition of The House by Paco Roca (in Basque Etxea). The cover is dominated by earthy and brown, autumn-like colours. A man with a back to us is watering some plants off the panel. In the left hand side we can see two big rubbish bags overflowing with a mixture of leaves, branches and clothing. The whole backyard has a very autumn like feel. It clearly hasn’t been well taken care of, though it’s not totally run down and dead leaves are sprinkled on the ground.
The cover of a Blueberry comic. Blueberry is in the foreground on the right ready to shoot a couple of men running out of the saloon.
Two graphic novels. King Spawn’s cover is dark and ominous with Al Simmons Spawn set become King Spawn to unite demonic factions. On the other hand Degas and Cassat’s cover has soft painted colours and depicts impressionist painter Edgar Degas looking at the reader while surrounded by ballet dancers.
The images shows two graphic novels resting on a bean bag. Snowpiercer is at the front. The cover depicts a man with a weird mask that only has two holes for the eyes holding a gun. He’s a clear menace. The bottom of the cover shows a train, the Snowpiercer in a mountainous landscape covered by snow. A snow avalanche is hitting the train. Behind it, the Murakami book depicts a frog as the first story of the book is Super-Frog Saves Tokyo.
The image shows The Cure’s new album Songs of a Lost World playing. The song currently playing is: Warsong.
On the left a copy of Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and Leuyen Pham. On the right a copy of Blue Lock Vol. 11 by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura.
Big mama green monster destroys the Big Ben while on a rampage to free her child Gorgo.
The image shows the cover of Gamma Ray’s The Best Of… album. It’s a black leather like cover with Gamma Ray’s logo in gold letters and “The Best Of” under it. We can see that Blood Religion (Remastered) is playing.
Arale from Doctor Slump is leaning forward facing the viewer with a content smile. Behind her we see the colourful, bright and green hills of Penguin Village with lots of the familiar characters from the town. At the top left, the sun in the sky is brushing its teeth.