{"id":30956,"date":"2024-11-22T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30956"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:42:06","slug":"they-shot-the-piano-player-a-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/11\/22\/they-shot-the-piano-player-a-graphic-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"They Shot the Piano Player – A Graphic Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Fernando Trueba<\/strong> & Javier Mariscal<\/strong>, translated by Mediasaur<\/strong> (SelfMadeHero)
\nISBN: 978-1-91422-424-9 (HB)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Look, Listen and Learn \u20268\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comics are serious business in South and Central America, but not as much as Music is. Add to that the fact that all of us hate evil and love a mystery and the result is a captivating read. It\u2019s also a captivating film but that\u2019s not my point today…<\/p>\n

As much a treatment on the power of obsession and curiosity as a (fictionalised) account of one creator\u2019s fascination with another, They Shot the Piano Player<\/strong> is a lovely, tortured beast: an account of how a multi-award-winning writer, director, producer and documentarian became obsessed with the forgotten fate of a \u201cdisappeared\u201d musician Francisco Ten\u00f3rio Cerqueira J\u00fanior and went looking for answers – albeit at one remove and using a made-up \u201cjourno\u201d as his literary bloodhound.<\/p>\n

The story is true. Ten\u00f3rio lived, loved and died through the most appalling of times, for the most stupid and venal of reasons and the world moved on. At least, until one man heard some old Bossa Nova records and decided to know more about the incredibly talented man who made them…
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\nDelivered in a parade of vivid and captivating styles by major mainstream artist\/designer Javier Mariscal, the dry obsession blossoms into a captivating murder mystery with clues unpicked and suspects followed until an awful truth about governments and power is exposed. There\u2019s no restorative justice to be found here, just an acknowledgement of unpunished wickedness and sombre warnings that it can still happen again…<\/p>\n

Devious, relentless and compelling, the multimedia masterwork concludes with a copious section on the how the book\/film came to be. \u2018Searching for Ten\u00f3rio\u2019<\/em> combines Trueba\u2019s research notes, visits and interviews across Central and South America and through generations with photos and Mariscal\u2019s amazing art and sketches. These are subdivided into \u2018The Characters\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Family\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Buenos Aires Group\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Musicians\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Argentina\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Guest Artists\u2019<\/em>, and \u2018The Tragedy\u2019<\/em>, and precede a glorious gallery of ancillary art studies from the book itself.
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\nReading like no other graphic biography you\u2019ve ever seen but subtly gripping like the most potent crime fiction or UN report on war crimes, They Shot the Piano Player<\/strong> is a ferociously addictive read you will never forget.
\n\u00a9 2023, Fernando Trueba. \u00a9 2023, Javier Mariscal. Originally published as DISPARARON AL PIANISTA \u00a9 2023, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial S.A.U. Travessera de Gracia, 08021 Barcelona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, translated by Mediasaur (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-91422-424-9 (HB) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Look, Listen and Learn \u20268\/10 Comics are serious business in South and Central America, but not as much as Music is. Add to that the fact that all of us hate evil and love a mystery and the … <\/p>\n

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