Fermín Cabanillas I Sevilla, (EFE).- The Catalan cartoonist Isaac Sánchez has managed, at the age of 42, to establish himself as a reference in the world of comics, to which he returned, as he himself says, after passing “by accident on YouTube”. , where thousands of people saw his creations between 2006 and 2017.
In an interview with EFE in Seville, where he has met his followers at the ‘Nostromo’ comic book store, he says that he is still surprised that some followers treasure his works from five or six years ago, when he left the universe. virtual YouTube to redraw.
While the internet became a very profitable refuge for some artists, Isaac Sánchez left it completely aside, despite the fact that the videos of ‘Loulogio’, as he called himself on his channel, had millions of views.
But, after that time, “I can say that I am a cartoonist whose life took him to YouTube for a while, something I found on the way, by accident, but I always knew that my thing was comics, drawing stories.”
The “grandfather” of Youtube
And he was not just one more, since he is still known as ‘Youtube’s grandfather’, for having been one of the forerunners of this way of communicating more than 15 years ago, and having touched one million subscribers on his account in one a time when, still, the “youtubers” in Spain were a newborn species.
Regarding the current state of the comedian, Sánchez assures that “we came out of confinement and all that it entailed in very good health”, since “that time showed us that art is something very necessary to best overcome moments of crisis” .
“When we have more anxiety or we find ourselves more devastated, the evasion that a cultural work can cause is important,” says the Catalan cartoonist, who recalls that “during the pandemic, it was when more series, movies, books or comics of all kinds were consumed” , and defends that you have to “learn to value written art and stories.”
He remembers that when he was asked as a child what he wanted to be when he grew up, he always answered that he was a cartoonist “because it had always been very clear to me, and I knew that it would not be an option in my life, but a reality.”
numerous awards
For this reason, he feels like a fish in water when he sits at the signing table for ‘Nostromo’, and people of all ages begin to pass before him with their books, and not just the latest creations, such as ‘Baños Pleamar’ , but that “they keep bringing me comics from six years ago, the first of this new stage” after leaving their experiences on YouTube, something that, she says, makes her especially excited, because “it is seen, in this way, that those copies continue circulating”.
This cartoonist born in 1981 spends his best professional moment with awards such as the one received by ‘El Don’, the Book of the Year award from the Madrid Bookstores Guild, just the book that came out before ‘Baños Pleamar’, the graphic novel that tells the story of a boy who grew up in the 90s in the atmosphere of a family bar on a beach near Badalona, the birthplace of Isaac Sánchez.