The thousand reasons of Pilarín Bayés

Catalan illustrator Pilarín Bayés has published her book number 1.000, round figure that also uses in the title.One thousand motius per viure (the galley) is not but a biography to use.Talk about parents, mothers, brothers, children and grandchildren, yes, but not in a conventional way.And he does it in the galley, the publisher who also published his first book and to which he was closely linked for years.

In a pleasant and fun conversation, Pilarín Bayés talks about old age: "I am not very suffering, so I would not like to have a difficult old age.We'll see what it will be like ", and also of grandchildren, whom he drew in his books when they were little and then urged them to find themselves in the way Wally is? One day, one of his children said surprised:" There are mothersThey don't draw! ".And it is that the image that everyone has of it is always with some drawing in hand.

We talk about his new book, which will be presented within the frame...And this is the result.

- give me a reason to live

- Life itself.The mental spirit...See the world, from an ant, as if one day you have the opportunity to make a trip and go to the other part of the world, for example, China.These things we live, the food we eat, the snack, the opportunity to study if they are children, the opportunity to discover if you like to play basketball or draw or do theater.Go by making this discovery of life seems to me that it is one of the first reasons to live.

- Almost 60 years illustrating.Have you wanted to throw in the towel?

- The truth is, no.I am aware that it can come at any time;In this age that I have, at any time nature can tell me "it ends" for many reasons.But it happened to me to say, look, now it would end up already, because not yet.

- Draw every day?

- One way or another yes.Sometimes it is drawn in a different way, yes.But you can say that there is almost no day that does not draw.

- And what pushes her to do it?

- Well...I don't know.It is almost an instinct.It is like a spider that weaves the fabric;It comes from inside.If you have a commission to do, you do it, but if not, you also draw: for a child there, for someone who asks you, for yourself...I don't know how to stop much.

- Is there any difference in illustrating for children or adults?

A very media setman

Òscar Dalmau, Dàmaris Gelabert, the Pot Petit, Martí Gironell ... are just some of the most media names that this year will be present at the Setmana del Llibre in Català, an appointment with the world of the book in Catalan that this year reaches its 39 editionand that is celebrated in the moll of the Fush of Barcelona until next September 19.The radio Òscar Dalmau is trained in the LIJ with the Bel i el Biel (Montena), a fun history of two brothers that is presented today at 19 hours.Dàmaris Gelabert and Pot Petit also present books (https: // www.Lasetman.Cat/), while the journalist and writer Martí Gironell will present in a storyteller.Other books that these days will be presented in public through the signature of their authors or in storytelling are: The Awakening of the Granota (Kairós) by Eline Snel, Mira (animalibres) of Tina Vallès I Mercè Galí (Il • Lustració),Tags (Bindibooks) by Joan Turu, L'Embístic Cas del Llabre d'Arcoles (Cal·ligragra) of Dani Torrent.

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Yes there is.I have been collaborating for many years with 9 Nou, and I always tell them: here I carry all my bad manias.I have been accused many times of giving children a sweetened vision of the world, but I think no.I try to make a relatively realistic world: there are people who have a good time, people who have a bad time, however, the beginning is always positive.Because I think that a child does not have to give a pessimistic vision of life.He will meet things that do not work, but in principle, you have to try to find a relatively friendly world to teach children, it seems to me.And when you draw for an adult you don't have this concern, because adults have the same perspective as you.

Therefore, if in a moment you are rabid, angry, then you are and if you are in a bad mood, then you are.And I think that with a child we can't afford it so much.Well, I wouldn't want to do this child's child.

- What character is more proud of?

- I have been a cartoonist of few characters, but those who have made me better are Pau and Laia.And yes I am very proud of them, because many children have followed them and they are very normal: they have no super powers, nor live terrifying adventures...that it is very nice at a given time to see superheroes, but I think that grace will see a little of everything in life.They are normal children, like the children who read them: sometimes they are nonsense, sometimes they have a problem...But drug traffickers are not going to be pursued.I always say that Tintin's mother had to suffer a lot, poor woman, and that is why Hergé never drew her.

- What did you read as little?

- As a little I read many TBO, the DDT, Roberto Alcázar and Pedrín, the war exploits...I had a friend who called them the Belgium exploits, because we did not understand almost anything.I remember that once a nun told us, try to read literature also in addition to the comic, which is going very well to read literature.And we told him: "But it is that war exploits are so well written! They are so intellectual! Because for us it was the pear of the intellectualidat.There were not many things for children.I am the daughter of Franco, to put it in some way.

- Were there many women in this profession when it started?

- The illustration has been a profession curiously of quite feminine origin.The drawings for some maternal children were considered, a little ladies.Fina Rius, Maria Rifà and I, we were discovered by Marta Mata, and we started working in La Galera, where many other women worked at that time.

- What will the reader find in1.000 reasons to live?

- I would make illusion that people would find some reasons, that they are mine, and that they could oppose or put next to their own, to find coincidences or not.It is not a book that you have to start at the beginning and read it all.I say in the prologue that I would like it to be like Kempis (Tomás), that you opened it through the page that you opened, I told you something very important for your life.I don't have so many pretensions, however.It will help to give what if you compare with the life of one.

- And after that?

- Now I'm with book 1.003 and 1.004.At the moment I do not stop, but I am very aware that any of these books can be the last one, even if I do not die.Of course, dying can also happen to me, and at my age I tended a certain logic.

- What do you think is what most defines it as an illustrator?

- Perhaps the fact that I am able to put the reader in a situation.The illustrators always serve a text.Help put the reader in a very fast way, with a look, without revealing the end.