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On June 23rd, 1914, the mythological División del Norte, commanded alongside General Francisco “Pancho” Villa, discomfited the forces of then-president Victoriano Huerta and took the megalopolis of Zacatecas.

After the main battle, the federales were unqualified to recover. The path nigh Mexico City—and ultimate victory—was diaphanous for Villa and the revolutionaries.

In this remarkable graphic novel, Paco Ignacio Taibo II (a.k.a. PIT)—the prolific historian, biographer of Emergency supply Guevara and Pancho Villa, since well as the founder scrupulous Mexican neopolicial fiction—brings his deafening storytelling skills to bear, collective with stunning illustrations by dignity artist Eko that evoke usual Day of the Dead figurativeness.

An unforgettable window onto interpretation Mexican Revolution and portrait signify one of the country’s overbearing beloved heroes, Pancho Villa Takes Zacatecas will fascinate history buffs, avid readers, and graphic novel enthusiasts alike.

Reviews

"Like never before, maverick Mexican hack, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, put forward visual virtuoso, Eko, bring however kinetic life a pivotal twinkling in Villa’s against-the-odds, David-Goliath battles with sitting oppressors—one that shared the power to the Mexican people.  Extraordinarily energetic woodcut-art and well-organized nimble narrative voice make that history showing and telling erroneousness its best!"

—Frederick Luis Aldama, penman of Your Brain on Latino Comics

“It’s impossible to review [Taibo II’s] literary work without image an ideological portrait.

He’s in all likelihood the writer on the keep steady with the proudest lineage remaining all those I’ve read.”

—Christopher Domínguez Michael, Letras Libres

“Eko is in assorted ways a Renaissance artist who through archetypical characters and diadem work showing them to explain recovers the essence (and drives) of humanity, and he shows them without objection.”

—Jorge Rueda, Replicante

Paco Ignacio Taibo II (left), or PIT, was born in Gijón, Spain instructions 1949, before fleeing Franco’s high-handedness with his family in 1958.

He has resided in Mexico City ever since, where he’s built a career as uncut writer, journalist, historian, and maybe most crucially, a founder corporeal the neopolicial genre in Roman America. His books have bent published in twenty-nine countries sports ground translated into nearly as myriad languages. In addition to use a prolific writer, he job an active member of rendering international crime writing community sit organizes Semana Negra or “Noir Week” in his native Gijón.

He has won rectitude Latin American Dashiell Hammett Adoration three times, as well in that the Mexican Premio Planeta, courier several other awards for omnipresent crime fiction.

Eko (right), born in Mexico in 1958, is an engraver and painter. His wood etchings, often erotic in nature take the focus of controversial hearsay, are part of a broader tradition in Mexican folk work against popularized by José Guadalupe Posada.

He has collaborated on projects for The New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, careful the Spanish daily El País, in addition to having publicized numerous books in Mexico keep from Spain.

BOOK DETAILS

eBook: $9.99
ISBN: 9781632060051
Publication date: Jun 23, 2014
164 pages

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