O Červenáčkovi – Čech Pavel (2019)

In this story, the Fast Arrows face the greatest challenge they have ever encountered. They reach a boundary beyond which even the Division Class pales, a crossing that Jaroslav Foglar always avoided in his work. Yet, Pavel Čech's comic is not a denial of the work of his great predecessor – on the contrary, it is a sincere homage to Foglar and at the same time an autonomous story that sensitively expands the world of Červenáček and his friends with new colors and emotions. Images and texts in bubbles. Colorful characters on yellowed pages. Memories of their scent... The notebooks of the Fast Arrows. How appealing they were to me at a time when they could not be found in libraries or second-hand shops. Fast Arrows. To this day, those words sound like a spell to me. How many magical moments those pages brought me. How much joy, tension, and a peculiar nostalgia. That desire to experience something like that. I sit in my studio. I turned off the radio and switched off the lamp. The sky outside the window is painted with the colors of dawn. Tomorrow is the first day of spring. A pile of written and illustrated papers lies before me. The work of the last few months. A story about Červenáček. What audacity! Long ago, I sent Mr. Foglar a pen drawing of Stínadla. His reaction pleased me. In the letter I still have saved,…