Diego Arandojo is an Argentine author, scriptwriter, award-winning film and TV documentarian, and filmmaker. In addition to writing short fiction, novels, graphic novels, children's radio plays, and more, he runs the digital magazine Lafarium. His earlier graphic novel Beatnik Buenos Aires was translated by Fantagraphics in 2021. Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D'Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively. Facundo Percio is an Argentine comics artist located in Buenos Aires. He's worked with writers such as Alan Moore and Warren Ellis, and has drawn Star Wars comics.
This sensational portrayal will transport readers to an Argentina where truth is far stranger and more wonderful than fiction -- while fabulously mixing up both.-- Publishers Weekly Written in a combination of poetic verses and sparse dialogue, and visualized in smoky charcoal drawings, this graphic novel is an evocative love letter to the creation of art and the mad geniuses who live for its birth.-- Monkeys Fighting Robots Beatnik Buenos Aires builds and builds, providing the cultural stew of a glimpse back to a creative era that burned briefly, but brightly, and indelibly for some. ... It's a masterpiece.-- The Slings & Arrows