{"id":144,"date":"2008-02-26T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-02-26T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T16:37:24","slug":"masllorens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"135. masllorens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801A31.jpg\" alt=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There\u2019s not a more authentic Catal\u00e1n name to be found in Recoleta Cemetery than Masllorens i Payerols. Substitute the \u201ci\u201d for a \u201cy\u201d for the Spanish version. Not much info is around as to why Pablo came from Catalunya to Buenos Aires, but the results of his labor are well known. Establishing the Emilio Ram\u00edrez publishing house, plaques come from former employees &amp; managers, including one by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=54\">Luis Perlotti<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801A29.jpg\" alt=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801A30.jpg\" alt=\"Masllorens, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What makes this tomb noteworthy is that the company founded by Masllorens compiled &amp; sold the first edition of a major science fiction comic, \u201c<em>El Eternauta.<\/em>\u201d Originally published as a weekly series from 1957 to 1959, the whole strip was printed as a magazine by the Editorial Emilio Ram\u00edrez in 1961:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/eternauta.jpg\" alt=\"El Eternauta\" width=\"250\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here&#8217;s the plot&#8230; As an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth takes place, a few people in Buenos Aires figure out how to survive using specially made suits, protecting them from a deadly alien snowfall. A resistance army forms &amp; battles are fought, but it becomes obvious that the true invaders aren\u2019t around\u2026 they control everything from a distance. Juan Salvo, the protagonist, attempts to escape with his wife &amp; daughter but accidentally triggers a time-travel device. The remainder of the series is about him trying to find them in the time continuum.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sounds a bit normal now, but for the late 1950s the plot was very innovative. Various authors &amp; artists have contributed to this successful story since then, &amp; a single place in Buenos Aires pays tribute to <em>El Eternauta<\/em>\u2026 the subway station Uruguay on the B Line (north side, direction Alem). A tile mural depicts one of the comic panels. The first image is from Wikipedia &amp; the rest are from Robert:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/subteuruguay.jpg\" alt=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" width=\"450\" height=\"116\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802G02.jpg\" alt=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802G03.jpg\" alt=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802G04.jpg\" alt=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay, El Eternauta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802G05.jpg\" alt=\"Subte, L\u00ednea B, estaci\u00f3n Uruguay\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s not a more authentic Catal\u00e1n name to be found in Recoleta Cemetery than Masllorens i Payerols. Substitute the \u201ci\u201d for a \u201cy\u201d for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=144\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">135. masllorens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-literati","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}