Langer For Export
Sergio Langer
Editorial:
Sinopis
In a perfect world, Langer would not exist.
In a perfect world, to make us laugh, nobody would have to remember us that worthless trash that they pass off as National Politics, International News, Public Decency, Universal Values, Soldiers in the Country and other Saints.
In that perfect world, of solemn capital letter and lower-case letter, the only laughter allowed would be the shaky laughter of happiness, or the satisfaction without compromising content, to laugh with Langer is, instead, to laugh and worry about it later (it might even qualify as a advertising slogan: “Laugh now, worry later”), since his sense of humor immediately spoils any attempt to laugh by introducing uncomfortable resources: awkward ideas, subtle complaints and hidden intentions.
The art of Sergio Langer exists to remind us that we have never, and we will never live in that perfect world.
Sergio Langer
Biografía
Sergio Langer is an architect, an illustrator and a graphic humorist. His first jokes appeared in 1979 in Humor Registrado magazine. Currently, he publishes in Clarín newspaper since 2003 ""La Nelly"", a daily strip written by Rubén Mira. He also collaborates with the satyrical magazine Barcelona since its beginnings (2003), where he publishes the comics “Mamá Pierri”, “Clase Media” and “Ríase la gente”.
He also publishes in lento, a monthly publication; in Mongolia magazine from Madrid since its beginnings (2013) and in the weekly publication Courrier International from Paris. He collaborated in the main local and international graphic means, both in multimedia and in tiny under fanzines. In 1993 he was the co-founder of Lápiz Japonés, a graphic experimental magazine about art and comics. He has published more than ten books that compile his works. Among them are ""Langer. Blanco y negro"" (2000), ""Burroughs para principiantes"", with Rubén Mira (2001), ""Manual de historia argentina, de Carlos a Néstor"" (2003), ""Nelly Argentinísima"" (2005), and ""For Export"" (2007), ""For Export II"" (2011) and ""Satánicos"" (2013) with Chilean illustrator Pepe Palomo.
