After the success of In Will McPhail, Norma Editorial publishes a compilation of his humorous illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker, Amor y almañas.
Humor is the best medicine to endure the worst drinks in life and move forward. The everyday becomes the hands of Will McPhail’s fetish animals: rats and pigeons, with Love and vermin. The most urban animals act as a parody of human society to make us laugh and reflect on the little things that annoy us. Because a small thing can do a lot more cumulative damage than a big problem. That is where the author of In shows his mastery, in making us overcome those blows of life helping us to see how absurd it is.
In Spain, most of the magazines where this Briton publishes his humorous panels are not published. Magazines as important as The New Yorker keep a space for Will McPhail among their pages for a very simple and clear reason, he makes people laugh with elegance, intelligence and without being critical or cynical. This artist is sincere and uses parody and irony more than sarcasm (although it is not lacking either) to create everyday universes with surreal touches that brighten the day of his readers.
A very own style
This distinctive style has earned him the Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year for the past two years and the British Cartoonists Association Young Cartoonist of the Year Award in 2013, HIS first complete work has been IN, where he played with the graphic possibilities of the comic, impressing his own and others with the result. In addition, which seems very important these days, he has a good number of followers on social networks who visit his publications to brighten up the worst moments of the day, as well as in Private Eye and New Statesman magazines.
Although I am insisting on the rats and pigeons, the truth is that they are only a part of the compilation. But despite not having such cute little animals to play with, McPhail has plenty of tools in relationships, parenthood, work, and in his own opinion, and in that he doesn’t cut a hair in throwing darts at today’s society and its worst aspects.
Black and white art, drawn in pencil, ink washes, and some nib is all you need to capture an entire situation in one illustration. Each of them is a narrative game in which there is a before and after that we do not see, but that we know how it will be, that is the wonder of the comic strips published for more than a century in newspapers, and McPhail He knows how to do his job very well.
Conclusion
love and vermin It is a book that you visit every time you feel down. It will make your day and you will smile. It is a work in which through these “urban vermin” the author represents everyone’s life, our low and high moments, resolving these situations in a short space with a coup de effect that fills the gaps between our bad thoughts, moving them away a little. little to make a better day.
love and vermin
Title: : love and vermin
URL : Milcomics
Author : Will McPhail
Format : Paperback
ISBN : 9788467960877
Description : With his keen eye for all the absurd details of our mundane lives and his ability to draw hilarious animals, Will McPhail is the most distinctive illustrator to be found in the pages of The New Yorker. His graphic jokes turn the anxieties of modern life into humor and expose the strangest of human behaviors.
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