After creating “Melvin”, Joaquín Blázquez entered into a dark spiral. He actively participated in a magazine that was a failure and, in 1978, he fell into a depression that led him to write a diary about his illness and autobiographic memories full of hallucinations. When E.T. was released, he became obsessed with taking Steven Spielberg to trial, but at the age of 40 he died from a brain haemorrhage provoked by the continuous ingestion of medications and alcohol that his diabetes didn’t stand.
The complex vital history of Joaquín Blázquez, the thread of the documentary, develops in parallel with the generation of comic strip-makers that worked, through drawer agencies, for foreign countries, focusing mainly on those who published for the American publishing house “Warren Publishing”.
Through close interviews, archive images and some little recreations, we will enter into the tormented mind of Joaquín Blázquez and we will revise the period in which Spanish authors, who were internationally recognized, fought against what was established.
An important event will give, in 2007, an additional impulse to this project, as 25 years have passed since the world’s première of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
(Extract of one of the letters that Joaquín Blázquez sent to Steven Spielberg)
