The vignettes that Miguel Bustos has been making for ten years appear, in which he uses the double meaning of words to surprise and make people laugh
It is presented as “a book of bad jokes” but it is enough to open it for laughs through puns and direct messages. ‘Humor is written with a pencil’, edited by Pepitas de Calabaza, covers subjects ranging from «geography» and «literature» (with a special section on the golden age) to television series, superheroes or «politics», which they distil pop and jazz stars, historical and current figures or commercial brands.
The author hides behind a pseudonym, Miguel Bustos, and has himself photographed with a ‘caganer’ mask out of “shame” and “privacy”, says who has been publishing these vignettes “with some regularity” on social networks for ten years. He has the incentive to unfold: he deviates from his professional profile, devoted to “commercial illustration, with more colors and a little more elaborated,” he explains.
The drawings seem simple by combining only the two-tone with orange, and in this edition the “funniest” drawings and some unpublished drawings are collected. “Of course they are the ones that make me laugh the most. Bad jokes, short and sweet. Or chain laughter or throw the book out the window…”.
At a time when screenwriters and stand-up comedians are denouncing that prevailing political correctness forces them to censor themselves, or be censored directly, Bustos has only one formula. “I try to make the jokes I make funny for myself,” he explains. “If I see they aren’t, I’ll throw them away myself. I don’t think about what other people will think of the joke. Everyone has their limits on humor and I draw according to mine».
A joke is born “by hearing things. Ideas arise in conversations with people, listening to the radio or reading,” Bustos recalls. Then, at the moment of the revelation, “I take my cell phone out of my pocket and quickly write it down.” “It’s not discipline, it’s the habit of always being on guard,” says who, as a hobby, now tries “to tie four guitar chords together, the only one I know”.
This “series of comics”, as the author describes it, contains a humorous rhetoric where illustration and words are absolutely intertwined, and one cannot exist without the other. «The vast majority of vignettes are puns, they are based on double meanings or on a small change of the word leading to a different meaning. What a bad joke has been said all his life. And the worse, the better”, confirms Bustos about this project that will be published in a collection where, for example, Mingote is also present. And what’s the best joke? “May it surprise you.” Surprise is of course guaranteed in this pencil-written humor.
Source: La Verdad
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