{"id":2077,"date":"2011-12-15T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelfiffe.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2018-01-24T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:23:19","slug":"remembering-eduardo-barreto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelfiffe.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Eduardo Barreto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I received my first comics when I was a little kid, a 5 year old transplant in Madrid, Spain. My grandma bought a handful of them for me from the newsstand. They were translated Marvel and DC comics, some were black & white, some in color. They were the size of magazines, too. Huge, colorful, sometimes many stories per issue. I was mesmerized, as even the ads for other titles seemed incredibly epic to me. Eduardo Barreto<\/a> had something to do with all that.<\/p>\n

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That there is the first Superman comic I ever read. I had seen the 3 movies and had the toys, but a comic? This was it, and seeing Superman cry for help in an alleyway with stubble<\/em>, of all things, was weird and interesting and compelling. The actual story was a pretty good Bates\/Swan\/Oksner production, but nothing beat that cover.<\/p>\n

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Even many years later, when I would first start going to comic book stores once in a while, I would always gravitate toward the Barreto covers in the back issue bins. The ones I thought looked cool were never drawn by him on the inside. Again, nothing beat those covers.<\/p>\n

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I’m getting ahead of myself. Back in Spain, I did<\/em> have a comic drawn by Barreto. It wasn’t a popular icon of a comic, but I happened to own it, and it seemed complex to me. It was heavy and tragic and I felt the weight of the conflict in every panel. I had never even seen these characters before.<\/p>\n

It was Atari Force<\/a> issue thirteen.<\/p>\n

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What an odd collection of characters. They all seemed to be friends but enemeies but lovers but related but… but… I loved trying to decipher the story over and over again. Turns out that the issue at hand featured a couple of reveals<\/em>. People were betrayed, identities explained, the end of the world was inevitable. I loved it. How could I not? Look at this page and its chaotic design, and yet it flows clearly, masterfully.<\/p>\n

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As for the page below, that was my favorite page out of the entire thing. A pretty simple, brutal fight. The entire issue was a great build up to this moment and this was the perfect release.<\/p>\n

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I recall thinking that the guy’s face didn’t have enough blood on it. Those faint pink spots weren’t good enough for me. I needed to see more blood, so I just added more blood with a red pen. I wish I still had those Spanish reprints, if only to see what kind of graffiti or subplots I used to scribble in any open space on the page I saw.<\/p>\n

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Eduardo Barreto passed away today. He was 57.<\/p>\n

Our condolences go out to his family and friends.<\/p>\n

Tributes and other remembrances can be found written by Andy Khouri<\/a>, Heidi MacDonald<\/a>, and Ty Templeton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Those Spanish reprints, I’ve only found a couple here and there. I haven’t come across the Atari Force one, but I know that those bloody pages will not need me to scribble on them when I do.<\/p>\n

That scene, that comic, Eduardo Barreto’s work, they’re perfect the way they are.<\/p>\n

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–Fiffe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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