Carlos Giménez
El extraño caso del señor Valdemar, de Edgar Allan Poe
Club de Amigos de la Historieta #16, 1976
I usually combine the stories I write about things I know, about experiences I’ve lived, with adaptations of texts by writers I like. Normally, my own stories, being real-life topics, tend to be more monotonous to draw. Whereas when I do an adaptation, I enjoy drawing more because I usually choose adventure themes, exotic locations, dynamic characters, which allows me to draw figures in motion. Let’s just say that the writer that I am has more fun when he writes his own stories, and the cartoonist that I also am has more fun when he draws adaptations.
Carlos Giménez, interviewed in gráffica in 2022*
* Quote added after the original publication of this post.