Italy and Malta in solidarity with…
The Italian and Maltese governments toward the boat people: two Charon waiting for the immigrant floating on the Mediterranean\Styx.
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Jano & Drilla: A nice kid & her furry pet...
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The new project of Kanjano looking for lovely publishers.
At the Italian cultural institute in Belgrade there was an exhibition that represents a retrospective of the first 100 years of the Italian comics with more than 250 illustrations divided into 9 sections.
MARKO ANDREJIĆ, Wave Magazine deux ex machina, met the curator of the event Andrea Plazzi:
«I can see that in the entire history of Italian comic books there are openness and sensitivity of Italian authors to foreign influences and authors. An example would be 1910s and 1920s when French influences came into Italy - for example, Antonio Rubino was one of the biggest importers of French art in Italian comic books production. This is followed by 1930s and '40s when Italian authors opened themselves to adventure comics and American school, first of all to Alex Raymond, the author of Flash Gordon. After that to Milton Cliff who influenced Italian authors, among which were Hugo Prat and Aurelio Galepini, author of Tex, one of the most influential Italian heroes, and all the way to Paolo Parisi who is our guest in Belgrade these days.»
The full article on www.wavemagazine.net
Kanjano is a cartoonist from Sicily.
Padania’s green corps are ready to defend the holy land of Padania, that in the mind of the Italian political party Lega Nord is supposed to be somewhere in the North of Italy. The green militia man is going to kick back home any strangers who can threat the Celtic roots of the Padanians. «We doesn’t waste the money of the People of the North building lager, we burn ‘em all immediately!», he says.
During a three years long experience into ADV agencies he achieved a big ability in several illustration techniques: W/b, china ink, water pens (Pantone), watercolors, pastels, digital raster colorization, vector illustration tout-court. His art studies are quiet various: ha attended comic-stages, illustration courses (in Italy & in Germany) and a web animation course.
He collaborates with national and independent magazines, under and overground as well. Often he likes to team up with Ferro, who writes text of his works.
Right now he is part of M, the weekly satirical magazine of the Italian newspaper L'Unità.
ThyssenKrupp AG is a very large German industrial conglomerate, with about 192,000 employees. The corporation consists of 670 single companies worldwide. On December 2007, a fatal fire accident inside a plant in Turin, Italy caused the death of seven steelworkers.
He got a Philosophy Master Degree with an aesthetics’ thesis about an Italian Comic author Andrea Pazienza.
He’s also engaged in “creative writing”: he writes for the anti-mafia sicilian journal Erroneo and for the journal from Rome bazarweb.
The little man prays the octopus, symbol of Mafia. «Our Mafia in heaven… Protect us from the Court… Save us from the time of trial… Amen»
As he is a Sicilian little man he uses to greet you kissing the hand.
Kanjano in three steps:
The cv
Contacts:
www.kanjano.org
email: kanjano@gmail.com
skype: kanjano00
On Friday, the 12th of October, the 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics Komikazenwill open with a workshop involving authors and promoters coming from all over Europe. Authors of well-known magazines like Strapazin (Svizzera), Babel (Atene), Glomp (Finlandia), Chili Com Carne (Portogallo), and new self-productions coming from new members of the EU, like Romania, active with the magazine Hard Comics, and with various festivals, will participate at the meeting. For the first time in Italy, there will be the young authors of Stripoteka, a Bosnian collective based in Sarajevo.
The Festival highlight will be on Saturday the 13th of October, with the opening of the collective exhibition European Comics Cartography - an exhibit of about 50 European authors - at the Museo Nazionale of Ravenna. The exhibit opens up to a virtual journey, through the youth imaginary, in Europe, a country that widened its borders allowing the flow of comics’ styles and stories.
At 3.30 p.m. there will be the meeting with the author of “Martin Luther King”, Ho Che Anderson: this Canadian author will present the book, published in Italy with Becco Giallo in the Mirada gallery, and will show his original plates at the Biblioteca Classense. A masterly biographical work, which closely follows the light and shade of the Afro-American leader and points out how everyone seems to have forgotten about the political lab of non-violent conflicts. Considered the most important Graphic Novel after Maus, it is a book that touches the boundaries of the political essay, the annotated biography and the novel.
More? The exhibition Honey Talks organized by the Slovenian magazine Stripburger, the collective from Marseilles Le Dernier Cri, Stakhanovites of limited (and expensive) edition books, the winners of the contest promoted by the region Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Ricci and much more…
The exhibitions will stay open until the 15th of November, except for the Dernier Cri that will close the 6th of November.
Detailed info here.
Festival curators Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini.
Festival poster by Armin.
Altiero Spinelli (Rome 31 August 1907/Rome 23 May 1986)
Politician, Italian writer and anti fascist. He is referred as founding father of the European Union for his commitment in the European integration after the WWII.
In 1960 he wrote the essay “Europe does not fall from the sky”.
Now his soul has good time playing with a reggae band at unbelievable wedding party.
"Europe doesn't fall from the sky...all the rest yes!"
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Armin
Nat Röfu
kanjano
Paulo Patrício
Armin Barducci
Gianluca Costantini
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