Aleida: A Woman for the New Millennium

Who is Aleida? Who is this woman made for the new millennium, who embodies the irreverent and intuitive feminine perspective of life, and who now appears for the first time in an English version within this new humor series by Villegas Editores? According to García Márquez, the only thing Aleida lacks to be perfect is a little love. According to Vladdo, the excellent Colombian caricaturist who brought this character to life in high-calibre drawings, Aleida escapes any taxonomy or delimitation and by the mere fact of being a woman she is also unpredictable. Therefore, nothing exempts it from entering into contradiction with itself. Aleida, whose striking physical representation reinforces the mysterious hermeticism that surrounds her, "the drawing of her face lacks a mouth, is a little of everything: biting, tender, sensual, impassive. Conditions with which she impregnates the stinging darts that, without any concession, It aims at the male target, the ultimate object of all its emotional and rational quarrels. Perhaps this is where its rare charm and fascination lies.

With the title Aleida, a woman for de new millenuim, Villegas Editores publishes for the first time the English version of the controversial female character created by the cartoonist Vladdo. The work is distributed by Rizzoli International Publications of New York.

—Editorial in Aló Magazine

November 15, 2000