"1949. William Burroughs llega a la Ciudad de México acompañado de Joan, su esposa, la hijastra Julie y Billy, su pequeño hijo. Destinado a convertirse en el más importante escritor experimental contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos, el aún joven Bill apenas coquetea con la idea de escribir una novela. Ignora que dos años después habrá de matar accidentalmente a Joan de un tiro en la cabeza, durante un estúpido juego de Guillermo Tell. 1990. Un muy joven Bef descubre por accidente la obra de Burroughs, escritor contracultural y patriarca de la generación beatnik. Saber que vivió en su ciudad y caminó por las mismas calles habrá de obsesionarlo durante los siguientes años. Uncle Bill narra la historia del desencuentro cultural de Burroughs con México, sus tropiezos previos antes de llegar huyendo al aún provinciano Distrito Federal y el fatal accidente, así como su fugaz paso por la cárcel de Lecumberri y la relación de amor-odio que un lector puede establecer con la obra de un autor del que lo separan tiempo y espacio, así como el extraño vínculo que parece unirlos. Uncle Bill es la más ambiciosa novela gráfica de uno de los más importantes narradores e historietistas mexicanos." --Page [4] of cover. 1949. William Burroughs arrives in Mexico City accompanied by Joan, his wife, stepdaughter Julie and Billy, his little son. Destined to become the most important contemporary experimental writer in the United States, the still young Bill barely flirts with the idea of ​​writing a novel. He ignores that two years later he will have to accidentally kill Joan with a shot in the head, during a stupid game of William Tell. 1990. A very young Bef accidentally discovers the work of Burroughs, a countercultural writer and patriarch of the Beatnik generation. Knowing that he lived in his city and walked the same streets will obsess him during the following years. Uncle Bill tells the story of Burroughs's cultural disagreement with Mexico, his previous setbacks before he fled to the still provincial Federal District and the fatal accident, as well as his fleeting passage through the Lecumberri prison and the love relationship he hated that a reader he can establish with the work of an author that time and space separate him, as well as the strange link that seems to unite them. Uncle Bill is the most ambitious graphic novel of one of the most important Mexican storytellers and cartoonists. Google translation of back cover.
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