Pedro and me

Today I will tell you about a comic, "Pedro and me" :-)

It´s a fantastic comic I discovered through a friend, he gave it to me last Christmas. The comic tells us about  several topics: the relation between people, homosexuality, love, life and death .... but above all  it´s a story about friendship, friendship between two people, the author, Judd Winick and Pedro Zamora. As I have said, 

I found out that thanks to my friend José, here I post a  picture of the dedication:

(I'll never be able to do a portrait of friendship so beautiful, sincere and moving as you´ll find in these pages, so I wanted to share this comic with you, my friend. loves you, José. 6th January 2011).

With this introduction I could´nt expect less of the comic. I really loved it. It´s a fun and touching comic in equal parts, the design is impeccable, the author's ability to capture the features, expressions, situations ... is unique. So I recommend to anyone who likes this kind of reading to buy and enjoy it.

The argument; our two main characters (and some more) are called to participate in a reallity on MTV, "the real world".There they both make friends, Judd, an early American artist trying to make his niche in the market and Pedro, a gay and HIV positive since he was 17 years old, working in an education program on HIV and sexsual. During his stay in the house they will live many good times that strengthen their friendship heretofore unsuspected.

Pedro and me is a true story. A formidable testimony of friendship and fighting prejudice and ignorance, as well as Judd's homage to a brilliant and wonderful young man, Pedro Zamora.

 

Pedro died on 11th November, 1994, after making a great job educating people throughout North Americans about HIV. He didn´t want that happened to him happened to them, He wanted to give people the opportunity to choose, and to have information about it.

 

A highly recommended book, I hope you enjoy, shudder and surprised as much as I did the day I read it. Greetings!