The Am My Dream evokes an incredible history of the Second World War in which Hernández Cava and Auladell freely interpret the true story lived by the artist Joseph Beuys when he was a member of Luftwaffe

Editorial standard has published I’m my dreamStill again to recover this personal work written by Felipe Hernández Cava and designed by Pablo Auladell who later returned to work together in another famous work like Lubricant. This is a comic that that It is not easy to readbut what Fill the reader both with its background and with its shape, In the literary and artistic.

A History of the Second World WarAmply used conflict in the ninth art, it seems that it should focus on the elex of war element, but Hernández Cava and Auladell break the stereotype one Create a history of car -conoscanza and personal discovery With two protagonists the pilot Erich Hafner and the shaman Solaya.

Hafner’s story is a free interpretation of the biography of Joseph Beuys -AND German artist That art revolutionized, Luftwaffe pilot who, during a snowstorm in 1943, was shot down in Crimea, where he healed thanks to the care of the Tartars with honey, herbs and fats, together with felt to heating it, elements that will later be, elements that will be subsequent Feature in your art.

The plot

The story begins with an aerial squadron of the Luftwaffe, the air branch of the German army, escorts a train with a way and troops from the Crimea peninsula, to prevent the USSR army from attacking it. On that mission there are several Soviet fighters that establish a fight with the Germans, causing the crash of the piloting of Erich Hafner.

The German officer is saved by some rooms by the remains of the plane that was piloting, being under the protection of an old shaman called Soloya. He will be responsible for the care of Hafner’s wounds and, moreover, he will make this introspection and at the time of his body he will embark on a journey of personal discovery.

The authors

It is not new to say that the authors are the representatives of the Ninth Spanish art, since both Felipe Hernández Cava and Pablo Auladell were winners of the National Comic Award, respectively in 2009 and 2016. Subsequently, in 2023, they agreed again Lubricant Where they narrate a story of the predecessor Soviet political police of the KGB, the NKVD.

The inspiration of Beuys’ work allows Felipe Hernández Cava to write to Very well raised and developed storyBut At the same time riskyAlthough as the Roman Seneca would say: It depends on the stars on top of the road “There is no simple way for the stars of the earth; statement that perfectly describes the character of Erich Hafner in soy my dream.

Hernández Cava knows how to use his writing perfectly To count a lot in the text, but in turn, with that screenplay solvency it also has a lot without saying it, because it is very thin, but gives such consistency to the story that the reader feels drunk in the fog surrounding the characters, traveling with them that path to the stars.

Dialogues are an essential part of the work, where The speech is developing without shockIn a very fluid and balanced way, making the story well sponsored and goes from one page to another without sudden changes of rhythm. That strength that imposes the discussion is emphasized by what is read between the lines and the reasons that nod in the reader.

Alicante’s art Pablo Auladell Allow TRansmit the strength of the script In an eloquent way, since the sober shots of the cartoonist adapt perfectly to the plot and intensify it. The dreamlike aspect that the screenwriter transmits it exquisitely adapts it by Auladell, adapting the composition of the page to history.

The cartoons are distinguished by an attractive expressiveness and a visual force that captures the viewer from the first moment. His work is built by a Timed palette limited to gray tonesThe resource that not only aesthetically unifies its compositions, but also provides a timeless atmosphere, full of evocations.

This Neutral chromatic interval gives my dream to double character: On the one hand, rEmit the ancestral and dreamlikeawakening a feeling of mystery; on the other, their graphic treatment and the precision of their forms give them to Sophistication of the aviation of the Second World WarElegant and sober.

Alicante compositions are populated by figures, scenes and objects that, beyond their appearance, refer to complex cultural, philosophical and literary universes, configuring an original and deeply personal imagination.

Edition

Editorial standard has published this edition of I’m my dream From Hernández Cava y AlardellIn axiswith a size of 22 x 29.5A color and an extension of 76 pages.

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1942 Disabled from Soviet artillery, this modern Icarus will undertake an odyssey of self -knowledge in which, assisted by a Chamana tartar, he will try to snatch the veils of life and fate with the background of a flame continent.

Before Lubianka, the screenwriter Felipe Hernández Cava and the cartoonist Pablo Auladell, both National Comic Awards, collaborated for the first time in I Am My Dream.