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April 2021
NO JOY
NO JOY is a monument to SCARFUL, the least well known of the kings of Rome. No Joy brings together in 80 inked pages a radical concentrate of style, pain, violence and irony. Scarful explores the deeper aspects of living, representing shadows, tensions and fears with the strength of his illustrations. A unique style emerges, meticulous in its details, precise to the point of obsessiveness, in his outlines the expressions of his subjects fix, search and
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June 2021
L’ALTALENA – SEE-SAW
A book, a game or a long, fun strip to hang... L'altalena can be all of these things. The accordion-folded pages depict stylized black and brown animals chasing each other, overlapping, jumping with their "heavy bodies" on the ends of the simplest of swings in search of a possible balance. A garish green and red cover envelops heavy elephants, sinuous snakes and statuesque kangaroos. The wordless book speaks conceptually to children about quantities, shapes, weights and balan
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December 2020
Heimat
A young woman in search of her roots that sink in the most complex period and place of the twentieth century: Hitler's Germany. Nora Krug sifts through archives, collects photos, finds memorabilia, recalls memories to reconstruct the events of her family and understand what role it played during the Nazis. The result, poetic and moving, is a graphic novel of rare imaginative power that questions a collective sense of guilt that shows no signs of
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July 2024
IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza
IUZZA by Francesca Todde tells the story of an encounter, a night sea crossing in search of Goliarda Sapienza. “Iuzza” is the loving childhood nickname given to the writer back in Sicily, where she comes to world in 1924. The crooked symmetry betwee her biography and work is filled with invisible presences: the vigor of her literary adventure resembles a treasure salvaged from a wreckage.
Starting from Sapienza’s novels, poems, short stories, letters, and pers
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