American paranoia. The black house published by The Dome is an interesting police history with the city of San Francisco de Stage in the shocking interval between the 1960s and seventies of the twentieth century

American paranoia. The black house This screenplay For the French Hervé Bourhis y Designed For the Argentine Lucas Varelabeing the first volume of Edizioni la Dome of a series that in its original edition has three published volumes.

On this occasion, the police investigations will bring the reader to the western coast of the United States, a San Francisco to a boil of new cultural currents

United States and San Francisco at the end of the sixties

The work is set 1967The same year in which the song was published San Francisco (Make sure to wear flowers in the hair) played by Scott McKenzie To promote the international music festival Monterey popIn the Californian city of homonymous near San Francisco.

At the end of the sixties they were in the United States. Uu. A cultural and social struggle against the future of the Cold War and the two great superpowers, in which two states ruled others who seemed simple puppets. This new youth, who had not lived the Second World War, was an answer against this new world order, in which a small face could exterminate life on earth with the decision of one of the great powers.

In the United States, the counter -current to combat the system was mostly cultural, being San Francisco the center of that American counterculture, based on an alternative lifestyle, with greater personal freedom, living it in collective harmony. In addition, numerous protests and criticisms have arisen to the US intervention in Vietnam.

For this, a psychedelic path was used where light, art, Music and drugs were a synergy. Therefore, the influences came from beating From North Beachof the dissidents of the Berkeley University. Also, in 1966 Ronald Reagan won the elections for Governor of California With the promise (kept) hard against the students. In the same year, San Francisco generated its underground newspaper, this is the psychedelic Oracle.

The plot

The story of the police investigation, as advanced on the cover, presents the murder of a young student near the famous San Franciscan bridge of Golden Gate. The most disturbing is the appearance in the abdominal region of a staff, without determining whether it was performed before or after the Obito.

The necessary detectives will be a veteran officer like Ulysses Ford and a recent juror from the Academy of the San Francisco Police Department, Kimberly TylerWho his father was Ford’s partner. This binomial must of that moment to start his investigations in a network of alleged esoteric specialists, with a main suspect from Baron Yeval.

The researcher has to face the case with the reluctance of some of his colleagues and do it in an ambiguous territory, where he has no roots and what seems to be is not. Also, the underworld Baron Yeval It is even more complex than it appears to the naked eye and the fact that a police dog is sniffing, will not facilitate things.

Bourhis script

Hervé Bourhis In the American paranoia. The black house manages to elaborate a Consistent and constant historyWithout empty jumps or strips, in which the investigations show roads so that it produces the expected effect by revealing the tangle of rehearsals.

The fact that the action takes place in the San Francisco of those years in which hippy and currents are also preserved, Kimberly, the protagonist will contribute to a touch of candididity to a much more complex vision of the idealized hippy world and the Californian government system of the time.

Lucas Varela’s art of

The graphic section of the American paranoia. The black house, falls Lucas Varela that presents a Effective work where he knows how to interpret and adapt to the script. In this case yours drawing Furthermore precise and clean That in other works, but sometimes the characters are too hieratic and simple, but whose facial gestures make emotions easily identifiable.

The stage Designed by the Argentine artist, he becomes another protagonist in history, therefore vehicles, clothes or buildings designed in the cartoons Ride the readerwithout any kind of doubt, To the city of Californian Baywhere the musical group The Mamas & The Papas They sang that type of people were known there.

Him color The employee is perfectly appropriate to the tone of workSince the blacks between the cartoons, together with the off tones, make the restlessness and mystery near the reader, while the red and blue tones are distinguished by that darkness, both to show the appearance of the agents, as of the crime scene.

Edition

Edizioni la Dome has published American paranoia. The black house In Rustic with flapswith measures of 20.6 x 27.5 cmA color and an extension of 140 pagestranslated into Spanish from Rubén Lardín.

San Francisco, 1967. The young Detective Kimberly Tyler and the veteran Lieutenant Ulisse Ford investigate the brutal murder of a student. The victim’s body, found outdoors in the recreational area of Golden Gate, has a satanic pentagram carved of knife in the stomach.

The ritual symbolism brings researchers to Barón Yeval, guru of the church of Satan, where a handful of faithful follows the precepts of the left hand. But … can we expect more murders?

Is Yeval the most dangerous man in the world or is it just a puppeteer dedicated to embarking with his meaning of show to bourgeois boring? The only certain thing is that Kim is for Abismem in a strange and threatening world that can be damaged in the depths of his soul.

A portrait of the American society of the late sixties that shakes the cricket, the black news and the shocks of an artificial and changing era.