Good wine makes… good ink!
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Wine and comics: two effective synonyms for pleasure and tradition, a combination so much dear to intellect as to senses, in which we Italians, modestly speaking, struggle not to be second to anyone. A meeting that was made concrete on Sunday, September 7th at the Grape Festival of Gattinara, municipality of Vercelli which produces the
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David Bowie, The Starman by Lorenzo Bianchi/Veronica Veci Carratello (NPE)
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
If it were a song, this book would probably be… Karma Chameleon! Surprised? The fact is that as it may seem paradoxical to mention the Culture Club when David Bowie discography is full of more “eligible candidates” headlines, the idea that karma is something extremely fickle, changing, protean and complex lends itself well to summarize
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GIPI, “astory” on exhibition
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Gipi debuted in 1994 as an illustator on Cuore magazine, then he published some short stories and beautiful illustrations on Blue, La Repubblica, Internazionale, Lo Straniero and IlPost.it. In 2003 he published the collection Esterno Notte and in 2004 the graphic novel Appunti di una storia di guerra for Coconino, publisher of all his subsequent
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One hundred of these numbers, Rat-Man!
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
It was 1989 when Leo Ortolani created Rat-Man (Deboroh The Rock to his friends) as a parody of overseas superheroes. In 1997, the early stages of success, he had already decided that the saga of his super-nerdy in puppet style would have had a conclusion with the release of comic book no.100. But no: over
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Frank Miller, Sin City revolution
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Grown up reading cosmic threats of superhero by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, Frank Miller belongs to the generation of American authors who in the early eighties led the revolution that has completely changed direction and approach to the world of superheroes. The hard boiled declination of his Daredevil (May 1979-February 1983) before, and the
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Comics cult: Palmiro and the Far Away Girlfriend
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Palmiro was born on a November night in 1992. He was born by accident. Sauro was trying to draw The Ugly Duckling and the sketches of Pino, a cute and unconvincing doll, appeared Palmiro: a small duckling, ugly and black. But duck, like those of Carl Barks. It was love at first sight. Created for
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Les Cités Obscures
Monday, 23 September 2013
June, 1982, the first episode of Les Murailles de Samaris was presented to the French public on the magazine A Suivre, it was the first of twenty books that make up the body of works published in Belgium by Casterman from 1983 to the present. In Les Cités Obscures, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters created
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Two Italian myths in the USA: “DK Project”
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Recently passing by a kiosk my eye fell on a comic book that after a quick browse made me take a step back in time. It was the mid-70s when a friend lent me some comic books to read, my first serial comic: I usually read L’Intrepido, Il Monello, Lanciostory, Skorpio, where the stories were
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Massimo is the maximum
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Where have you already seen him? Massimo Cavezzali, prolific cartoonist born in Ravenna but residing in Florence, has appeared everywhere: in the magazines Il Mago, Lupo Alberto, Orient Express, Tango, Comix, Il monello, Il Grifo and, thanks to his passion for music, on music titles and news such as Ciao 2001 and Tutto. Not to
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Dedicated to Moebius
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Some time ago while I discussed the artistic authorship of the Alien morphology (I mean the space monster whose exploits were inaugurated by Ridley Scott) with a guy (you know, everyone has their own way of wasting time), I noticed with some surprise that it was impossible to change his opinion, because he was a
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