This comic strip story is a collective social and cultural project on which we’ve been working on for a while already.
It all began as a general and vague idea a couple of years ago, when thru means of our research projects related to the history of toys and games in Argentina we discovered a very interesting and appealing facet of games in general. We realized that these games and toys were representations of a determined state of culture, history and personal beliefs that thru means of objects, writings and popular beliefs.
We came up with the idea of creating a multimedia game-toy-concept that would become a trademark of ourselves, our time, our ideas, as well as our hopes and dreams.
The idea of creating a story, narrating a fictionalized version of our thoughts, wishes and dreams was tied from the very beginning with our deep history and sense of belonging. The Ona ethnic groups from the Land of Fire in the Argentine Patagonia lands were a strong and amazing culture that was intended to be banned and rooted off from our history by the Spaniards and the early Creole government. This group, main character in our story, has the intention of reflecting us in our complexity, our syncretism culture.
Together with the strips, the narration, we’ve created miniature sculptures of the characters, artwork of the scenery and concept, and an incipient game concept of adventure narration…
The story begins in Buenos Aires, with a man writing a story, the way we do right now. A momentary lapse of reason will take him to a faraway fiction like- though very real land of adventures and life experiences…
Hope you enjoy the first of the many deliveries of this story.
Bob Frassinetti & team
