ALFOSO AZPIRI: "SOUNDTRACKS PLAY THE MUSIC OF MY WORK"
15/06/2009
The famous illustrator and cartoonist Alfonso Azpiri, author of the FIMUCITÉ 3 poster, assures that “film music is usually present” in his daily work, and that sometimes even during the whole process of creation of a project, and so it did during his work El Muro (The Wall).
Azpiri declared that ideas for a poster do not come the same way as for a comic or an illustration. “For FIMUCITÉ’s poster – he says - I didn’t want a cartoon alien or an illustration, which could leap into view, but an implied figure”. The Alien saga, the leitmotif of this essential musical appointment- is a creature we all know, and in case of having illustrated it closer to its original form, it would have attracted too much attention”, values the author.
The poster that Azpiri has created this year for FIMUCITÉ shows an orchestra conductor (with the gigantic figure of the mythical monster behind him), and below a representation of Tenerife and a lineup of violins’ bows.
The father of well-known characters such as Lorna and Mot also assures that the process of giving expression to an idea changes depending on the time he can invest in it. “I'm fast, but a creation always takes me more than a day”, jokes Azpiri, who will shortly publish a book with the covers he made for the best Spanish videogames, during the boom of the first 8 bit computers like the ZX Spectrum 25 years ago.
Finally, the cartoonist doesn’t believe that the crisis has arrived to his sector, since “Barcelona’s Comic Exhibition and Madrid’s Literary Fair have maintained their audience participation”, and “if there were less people in the first one this year, it is because they preferred going to the beach”, concluded, humorously, the author.