Django, Hand on Fire: The Great Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt is a legend. But Django -which may have meant He who wakens- was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in Liberchies, Belgium. The second in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in the fall of 1928, when a fire in his caravan mutilated his left hand. Writer Salva Rubio and artist Efa have already produced together a remarkable biopic on Monet, paying tribute to the painter's obsession with light. Likewise, this biopic devoted to the youth of the prodigy musician features the passion and determination of the man who has always considered himself the greatest guitarist in the world. In this story-score, by laying out the panels like chords, the artist brings to life his passion in vibrating watercolor to better accompany the musical and technical development of the inventor of gypsy jazz. From musette to jazz, from violin to banjo then to guitar, Django's destiny is that of his 'hand on fire', possessed by the supernatural spirit of the duende which burns in the soul of each gypsy musician. That of a miracle who is reborn from his ashes, more dazzling than ever. Cue the music!

Author: Salva Rubio
Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 12.05h x 8.98w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781681122878
ISBN10: 1681122871
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Nonfiction | Biography & Memoir
- Biography & Autobiography | Music

About the Author
Salva Rubio, is a Spanish writer specialized in history. With a master's degree in scriptwriting, he has been involved in many documentaries, short and feature length films. He also wrote the Monet biography with Efa (NBM). EFA is a pen name for Ricard Fernandez, a Spanish artist who left school at 16 to pursue his dream of being in comics. He has since published quite a few graphic novels and series. He also did the art for the superb Monet biography (NBM).