Antonio Machado, figura clave de nuestra cultura, es uno de los pocos grandes poetas que también fueron filósofos. Tras el éxito de Vida y muerte de Federico García Lorca, el prestigioso hispanista Ian Gibson y el reconocido ilustrador Quique Palomo vuelven a unir sus talentos para contarnos la vida del poeta. En las páginas de este libro nos relatan, entre muchas otras vivencias, cómo Machado apoyó la Segunda República y compuso algunos de los versos elegíacos más hermosos de nuestra lengua. Cómo cantó el paisaje castellano y la angustia del tiempo que fluye imparable. Y cómo, durante la Guerra Civil, denunció a los sublevados y a sus aliados fascistas y terminó muriendo, "ligero de equipaje", junto al mar francés del exilio en Collioure, justo al otro lado de la frontera. Ian Gibson y Quique Palomo se unen para convertir la vida de Antonio Machado en un cómic biográfico en el 80 aniversario de la muerte del poeta.
Authors
Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco. Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain. Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama. He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.
