Operación Bolívar

Dublin Core

Title

Operación Bolívar

Subject

Comics--Mexico
Comics--sci-fi
Dystopian comics

Description

First part (76 pages) of the original comic published in book format (160 pages). The first graphic novel published in Mexico, and one of the greatest Latin American comics. "Leónides Arcangel has a peculiar job: he's an angel hunter. Once caught, the angels' body parts are used to convert them into drugs and sold to the highest bidder. A noir graphic novel where politics, drug trafficking, and corruption intersect to shape a plot that overrides frontiers. Operation Bolívar is a harrowing journey into a spectral and violent Mexico" (Googlebooks). Originally published in book form by Taller del Perro & Ediciones del Castor in 1999 [160 pages in the PDF, 72 dpi, 26.6 MB, and then describe the link to its XML file with TEI encoding and embedded images.]

Creator

Edgar Clément

Source

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Originally published in issues of the magazine _Gallito Cómix_ in 1993-1994. This edition is the graphic novel published in book form by Taller del Perro & Ediciones del Castor in 1999.

Publisher

Taller del Perro & Ediciones del Castor

Date

1999

Contributor

Felipe Gomez, dje, rm

Rights

Permission from the artist

Relation

[no text]

Format

TIFF file. TEI-XML page.

Language

Spanish

Type

fragment (76 pages) of graphic novel

Identifier

Operacion Bolivar

Coverage

Mexico, 1980-2000

Files

OperacionBolivar.pdf

Collection

Citation

Edgar Clément, “Operación Bolívar,” Latin American Comics Archive, accessed January 21, 2025, http://mlrcdev.hss.cmu.edu/omeka/items/show/8.