Everything you know about the vegetable garden has been put into eight pages in Altza Porru. Did you not know much then?
Well, no. I know little and I also forget how little I know. I remember asking my mother how to sow the garlic and she responded. Two days later, I called him through the garden, wiping the garlic in his hand, to see if the fig was down or upside down. Disaster!
What unites Falces, Aranzadi, Lezo, Abaurregaina, Twitter, Etxauri and Txantrea?
That is the map of my life, or “Lutelestia” (remembering the lutelestia book from all over the World of Childhood). My geography is not that of the whole world, I've lived on a smaller map.
You say that the orchard, besides being autobiographical, serves to bind…
Well, I put it as a joke, but it's true. Basically, the impression that the one coming to your vegetable garden is going to have is very good: “Squeeze! That's nice!" Of course, there are fruits to make copious meals or to make world recipes, so like Pavlov's dogs, visitors start producing saliva before entering and joining you with pleasure and realize that they will not starve to death with you… Well… From there dinner plus bed is at idea one week!
Participating in
Altza Porru you join the “Secta de Jacobistas de Tierra”. Won't Zaldieroa go again?
I've always been Jakobita. Instead of looking for life on other planets, I've always flipped with life here. It's more striking to see how a pumpkin grows than to find some bacteria on Mars. The whole system is exciting: how the pumpkin accumulates water, how we then take the properties of the pumpkin, the residues in the compost, the land of the compost, the squash of the earth. It's terrible! I was Jacobi before I met Jacobi.
What did you think of the vegetable cartoon made by Asisco in the presentation of the authors?
Very good. [And then Altza went to look for the book Porru for not remembering the cartoon] Whoa! Yellow bell pepper. Very good.
Jakoba Errekondok eta Mattin marrazkilariak Altza Porru komiki liburua aurkeztuko dute ostegunean, hilak 26, Ategorrietako (Donostia) Iturritxo jatetxean, 19:00etan.
Baratzea gaitzat hartuta Jakoba Errekondok eta zortzi marrazkilarik egindako Altza Porru komiki liburua aurkeztu da urtarrilaren 4an Hernaniko Biteri Kultur Etxean, 19:00etatik aurrera. Ainara Azpiazu Axpi hernaniar irudigilearen Arian Arian erakusketaren barruan egingo da... [+]
In Altza Porru we’ve seen you as the owner of the Jakobian building, a superhero who becomes a walnut… Haven’t the cartoonists really bothered you?
I guess not. I already have friends to those cartoonists, and you know what happens to friends… What has happened with... [+]
Vegetables buying in the supermarket, in the bar drinking small pines, listening to Su Ta Sagar… Isn’t it too much?
I find this way of life that we carry so fast exaggerated. Apparently, in the comic book, vegetables represent a chaotic world, but surely there's the life... [+]
Despite having participated in Altza Porru, you haven't made a full comic book story unlike the other cartoonists. Has Jakoba censored you?
I knew that Jacob intended to censor me, and so, with self-importance, I decided not to give myself that opportunity. And yes, it's true... [+]
Horticulture and politics have come together in your comic book. A bit surreal.
I heard Jacob say that whoever does not understand the garden is not a Basque cult. He turned my head around. One day, at ETB, they kicked off part of a Urkullu rally and I looked at their hands. It... [+]
You've drawn a universe of permaculture, ecological orchards, biodynamics and zero junk philosophy. It's a paradise for Jakobit!
Yes, that is it! I love to imagine the natural tendency of nature to perfection when we don't intervene. Today, we always walk behind, inventing systems... [+]
Instead of talking about the vegetable garden, you have talked in your space of Altza Porru, Asisko…
Well, I'm a citizen, very nonsense, and as a family, I've never had anyone in my neighborhood in the hamlet. Now that I've made my life, I have a relationship with the earth,... [+]
What has been the experience of Altza Porru? Have you had to check the book Bizi Baratzea many times before you start drawing?
Good experience! I in the garden, the truth is that the experience is zero. Or rather zero negative! But I've learned a lot. The orchard has taught... [+]
It's up to you to introduce yourself to your compatriot Jakoba Errekondo in Altza Porru. Is it not a fat issue?
Yes, it was a small text, but it was a great responsibility. I felt the weight of responsibility over me, a cold sweat. In fact, it's the presentation of an important... [+]
With RISA TRAVIESA, I speak the comic book that tempted me by the edge of the towel. The garden seems made especially for those we love a lot, we enjoy its fruits but we do not practice. Eight street cartoonists have given the garden a complete imaginary and a sense of humor... [+]
Visitors were able to taste the seasonal products that approached the Ekonekazaritza Experimental Farm in Karabeleko on 16th. Jakoba Errekondo, in collaboration with eight Basque cartoonists and ARGIA, have found the right place to start the presentation of the book ‘Altza... [+]
As waiting for the first pea plant that the hortelan sowed, Jakobita awaits the new book. Date of departure. The best seller Bizi Baratzea bought the best seller at the Durango Fair and they ate it in their entirety in the coming weeks, they have come to all the presentations... [+]