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Although the idea had existed for a long time before, Borobiltxo Libros was born at the end of 2002, during a concert by Pascal Comelade, Jaume Sisa and Antònia Font at Plaza de la Catedral in Barcelona. On that day, Jordi Llobet talked to Quique Ramos about an artist he had discovered on a trip to Finland. That was our first motivation to start the project: we were going to publish Kati Rapia and see what would happen.
That was our first release, but not the last! Our philosophy is still the same: we let ourselves be carried away by our enthusiasm, publishing those newly discovered comics that excite us. We think there are a lot of hidden treasures out there that still don’t have a place here.
After the presentation party of “El Planeta de la Señorita†in June 2003, we decided to publish another artist we love who we had discovered from the fanzine “Qué Suerteâ€. She was Michele Siquot, from Argentina. So we published “Observación de la naturaleza… ¡humana!†in February 2004, and the presentation party took place at the gallery-shop Almacén Marabi.
Then we realized that there were many artists we wanted to publish but we couldn’t release a book by each of them, so we thought about gathering them all together in an anthology. We called it “Una casa para siempre†and we put a silkscreened cover on it. We were very happy about having all those artists that we love. The presentation party was held in June 2005, again at Almacén Marabi.
At the beginning of 2008, after a period of inactivity, Quique decided to leave Borobiltxo Libros, but Jordi was determined to go on with it. So in April “Yellow Bird†by Kati Rapia and “Doctor Gómez†by Tamayo were published and had their respective presentation parties at the gallery Duduá.
In addition to publishing the books during all these years, we have arranged exhibitions by Michele Siquot (December 2006 at Duduá and October 2007 at Almazén) and Kati Rapia (April 2008 at Duduá) and participated in several book fairs.
Ah! And Borobiltxo Libros means “little rounded books†in the Basque language!
JORDI LLOBET
www.borobiltxolibros.com
Yellow Bird Kati Rapia
Doctor Gómez Tamayo
Una casa para siempre FermÃn SolÃs, Silvia Lenardón, Arnau Sala,
Tamayo, Laboratorium, Kati Rapia, Jano, C.F,
Souther Salazar, Juan Berrio, Bert, Jeffrey Brown,
Jaime Narváez, Jenni Rope, Juanjo Sáez,
John Porcellino, Tamara Villoslada, Michele Siquot
Observación de la naturaleza...¡humana! Michele Siquot
El planeta de la señorita Kati Rapia