The specialized bookstore of Córdoba Crash Comics will host tomorrow, Saturday, a literary dialogue between two heavyweights of national fantasy: Házael González from Asturias and Jesús Vilches from Córdoba, and which will also include the presence of the Córdoba illustrator Raúlo Cáceres, who produced the drawings for the González comic ‘Arn, the Navigator’.
This meeting will take place from 11:30 a.m., in the meeting space that the bookstore has in its new premises.
The authors
hazael gonzalez, 46, is best known for his literary cycle ‘Historias de la Tierra Incontable’, published since 2012. He has a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a Master’s in Cultural Heritage (Research and Management) from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Apart from his role as a writer, he collaborates biweekly as a columnist in the newspaper Última Hora and in the web magazine specialized in fantastic cinema Scifiworld, writing reviews on fantastic literature. In addition, he has worked as a film and comic critic in specialized magazines such as VVolume Two, Top Comic, Hentai, Wizard or Dolmen.
He has also been a radio announcer on stations such as Ona Mallorca or IB3 Ràdio and a professor of journalism, advertising and protocol at the ESERP university for more than a decade. He is a member of the Associació Balear d’Amics de les Bandes Sonores (ABABS), dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of film music, with which it has collaborated on multiple occasions and participated in the XXXII Meeting of Writers and Critics of Spanish Letters held in Pendueles (Monday, Asturias), among other things.
Jesus Vilches, 45, is a writer with an outstanding career in the field of fantastic epic. He wins the ‘Revelation Author in Fantastic Literature’ award in Malaga (2009) for El Enviado, the first volume of his epic saga. His studies in Art History, together with his Bachelor’s Degree in History, converge with his literary vocation in the creation of the saga ‘La Flor de Jade’, first published by a traditional publishing house in 2009, but going on to the independent edition in from the year 2011.
As of that date, based in Madrid and associated with his usual illustrator Javier Charro, Vilches became a committed defender of the new model of independent publication, of the digital format and of a close relationship, without intermediaries, with his readers. This commitment has crystallized in a policy of low prices in his digital works and numerous gestures and online interventions in defense of the author’s freedom to have direct control of his own work as a viable and dignified alternative to traditional publishing. .
Raulo Cáceres, 47 years old, has a degree in Fine Arts and a professional comic artist. Between 1998 and 2007 he worked for different Spanish publishers, mainly making pornographic comics and illustrations for role-playing games. His series Elizabeth Bathory, Cuentos morbidos, Justine y Juliette and Aguas Calientes are from this first stage, which have had several reissues, in Spain, USA, France and the Czech Republic, with publishers such as Megamultimedia, Dólmen, Berenice, EDT, Eroscomix-Fantagraphics , Tabou Editions or Argo.
From 2007 to 2018 he worked for the American publisher Avatar Press, with well-known screenwriters such as Max Brooks, Warren Ellis, David Lapham or Garth Ennis, touching on genres such as horror, history, zombie or teslapunk. Some of his works in the USA are Crécy, Crossed: Psychopath, Captain Swing and the electrical pirates of Cindery Island, The extinction parade or Code Pru (series included in Alan Moore’s Cinema Purgatorio). As a cover artist he has collaborated on multiple comic books, highlighting his alternate covers for Alan Moore’s Providence series.
In 2019 he illustrated Galería de engendros, a tribute to the monster sticker albums, written by Tito Alberto and published by Panini’s Evolution Comics label. Since that year, Fuzz T-Shirts, Exhumed Movies and Miskatonik Videos have come together to publish the Horror artwork collection of prints, a tribute to the great figures of horror cinema, and the Insania Tenebris collection, illustrated stories inspired by Lovecraft’s obta.
In 2021 he drew Arn, the navigator, written by Házael González, published by Dolmen in Spain and by Dantes in Germany. In 2022, Diábolo Ediciones published Colección de abominaciones, a second album of monster stickers written by Tito Alberto.
The specialized bookstore Crash Comics it moved premises (but not street) in October 2022. Both a change of scenery and a larger space were sought and in both matters the objective was achieved. Its owner, Gabriel Soriano, wanted to give it a factory air, but at the same time special lighting that allows customers not to miss a detail of the material on display.
In the basement, to call it something, a large open space has been created where all kinds of events related to the world of comics, literature and games can be held, such as presentations, exhibitions and game demonstrations. That is precisely where this literary meeting is going to be held.
And these events are not rare. (Game of Thrones), Lopez Espí, Reiner Knizia, Sandy Petersen, SenShiru or Irene Olmo have already passed through its (former) headquarters.