My entry for the Alfonso Reyes comics contest
This has to be my most obscure joke, even for my few spanish readers, but I’m having it here for completeness sake.
Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) was a world renowned mexican intellectual, essayist and diplomat: the pride of my city, Monterrey, Nuevo León. A month ago, a contest invited current students of a prestigious university to create a cartoon, comic or animated short inspired by the life and works of Alfonso Reyes. Sadly, I’m merely an alumnus of said university, so I was ineligible to participate.
My wife and I joked that my only true contact with Reyes work were his translations of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, anyway. And well, yeah, swamped as I was with dozens of novels and textbooks to study during my first semester, I was indebted to Reyes’ foreword of The Iliad, as it bought me some time until I read the thing properly.
So I did the comic anyway. I mean, I was a shoo-in to win the contest, wasn’t I?
Cheers!
–Pedro Arizpe
jamás creí encontrar a alfonso reyes en los cuadros de un webcomic!! mi morra y yo reímos horas. gracias.
I assume Reyes translated Homer into Spanish? (I ask because when I look him up on Wikipedia it doesn’t mention anything about Homer or his works 😅)