Inktober 2016

These illustrations are based on Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself. In them Francisco the Man told in great detail the things that had happened in the towns along his route, from Manaure to the edge of the swamp, so that if any one had a message to send or an event to make public, he would pay him two cents to include it in his repertory. Francisco the Man, called that because he had once defeated the Devil in a dual of improvisation, and whose real name no one knew.