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tickle me pink!    La colla de la pesigolla or The Tickle Team rarely get their fingers in action, but when they do, they do it exceedingly well.The fact that they've only done so twice is what most calls our attention to them. I suppose it was around 1995, when the Barcelona Comic Saloon was still being held at the El Born Market, that I came across a curious little comic book at a stand I don't quite remember. A quick glance and... wow! the business! The adventures of a six-year old boy and his tiger. Yep: Calvin & Hobbes. The publishers: La Cola de la Pesigolla.
Seven years later on and we find ourselves in the elegant Comic shop we have here in Irunea. Lo and behold!
Another smart little comic book: Liberty Meadows. The publishers? La Colla de la Pesigolla. Oh yeah! This really got my curiosity going and, thinking that they would have something else up their sleeve, I got in touch with them.
- We aren't/weren't really publishers but seeing that the rights to Calvin & Hobbes were almost up, we decided to pick them up and we published it between ourselves and Mario Ayuso who actually put the money up front to pay for the rights. We saw that nobody was publishing Liberty Meadows so we decided to do the same. We paid for the rights this time.-
This all goes to show that there have been people behind the scenes hard at work for years in the world comics.
Liberty Meadows isn't as sharp and genial as Calvin & Hobbes. It's genius comes to the fore in its drawings.
A lot of care has been taken and the register is a very rich one. The humour has an American touch to it and the design of the edition is the best I've ever seen as far as comics go. Something to be grateful for.