Erica Mena

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El Nestornauta

March 6, 2012 by Erica Mena

A friend of mine just shared this interesting thing with me: From the blog graffitimundo: The walls of Buenos Aires have paid homage to Nestor Kirchner in various ways. In the immediate aftermath of his death, the words ‘Siempre Nestor’ were splashed across the city. To mark the one-month anniversary of Nestor Kirchner’s death, the political group La Campora distributed stencils to activists in every barrio of the capital, and the image of ‘El Nestornauta’ began to appear throughout Buenos Aires and beyond. El […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: eternauta, eternonaut

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Cats on the Internet

January 14, 2012 by Erica Mena

Currently, I’m supposed to be researching for my super-exciting thesis in literary translation, a portion of which was just published on Words Without Borders and which I wrote about for their blog. But instead, I’m thinking about cats on the internet. I’m not even really looking at cat videos, or LOLcat pictures, or even listening to “I Love Cats” the songified song (though now that’s stuck in my head). I started procrastinating, as I’m wont to do, by imagining what […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: aspca, cats, ceiling cat, eternauta, eternonaut, internet, itty bitty kitty committee, keyboard cat, know your meme, lolcatz, maru, meme, nyan cat, procrastination, surprised kitten, thesis

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The Eternonaut

January 5, 2012 by Erica Mena

An excerpt from The Eternonaut (the graphic novel I’ve been translating for my thesis) was just published on Words Without Borders as part of their Apocalypse themed issue. Here’s a little from my introduction to the work on the site: The Eternonaut does what science fiction can do so well, asks hard questions about the world, and wonders what we can do to change things. At the end, the comic writer wonders, is telling the story enough? Perhaps not, but then again, […]

Categories: Comics, Translation • Tags: apocalypse, comics, el eternauta, erica mena, eternauta, eternonaut, francisco solano lopez, graphic novel, hector german oesterheld, hector oesterheld, oesterheld, science fiction, solano lopez, the eternonaut, translation, Words without Borders

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