Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Facial Muscle Spasms Stroke

Corto Maltese

Nel 2006 la Tunuè pubblica il mio saggio Leggere Hugo Pratt . L'autore di Corto Maltese tra fumetto e letteratura. Un lavoro durato circa tre anni (considerato well that the book was born from the restructuring, the development and deepening of my previous thesis) that after almost five years continues to defend themselves from the well or, as I suggest the Tunuè, "is the catalog." However, the rate was also among the finalists of the Franco Fossati Prize 2007.
short, despite the non-fiction is very difficult as assets and little or nothing profitable, at least in most cases, this book for me will always have a special meaning . On the one hand, marks my debut as a "professional" in the world of comics, the other joins in the realization of a dream cherished by the time my main passions: writing , il fumetto e la letteratura .
Negli anni poi sono venuti i soggetti e le sceneggiature, non sono mancate le recensioni e le segnalazioni per Leggere Hugo Pratt però, credetemi, la vita di un autore può avere dei momenti davvero grigi dettati da cause che spesso non dipendono nemmeno dalla propria volontà ma da quella altrui o dal semplice e incontrollabile caso (un progetto per un fumetto che non va in porto, una tua idea che alle tue spalle viene copiata dagli altri - che fanno pure gli indifferenti - un libro che salta all'ultimo momento...), ebbene in questi casi ecco che in qualche modo il buon HP mi manda un segnale di incoraggiamento.
Giusto ieri nello studio di un amico mi trovavo a sfogliare l'ultima edizione dei fumetti di Corto Maltese (in particolare il volume numero 9 - Suite caribeana ) che escono in abbinamento ai periodici Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera ed ecco che all'interno dell'apparato redazionale curato da Fabio Licari a pag. 4 leggo quanto segue " In cerca di una chiave di comprensione moderna, ordinata e sintetica dell'opera prattiana suggerisco Leggere Hugo Pratt (Tunuè, 2006), saggio ben scritto da Giovanni Marchese ".
In questi casi il morale spicca un salto in alto e ritorni a credere che presto o tardi gli obiettivi saranno raggiunti.
Grazie Maestro!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Demi Glace Alternative

Che tempo che fa


Composion takes up the story on the subject and screenplay for the new comic. Similar books, dreams and reflections, I had become clear that the point of view from which I developed the narrative was that of a paranoid schizoid that would move in a context of fierce border placed in a near future Sicily, say located at a distance of a paltry handful of two to three years in the future compared to today.
James G. Ballard somewhere argued that the only possible reality is that we build within ourselves : I tried to keep me on track in this path.
Initially I concentrated on collecting narrative material that formed spontaneously from observation and from the restructuring of reality, to say things dictated solely by the simple burning of their urgency and relevance. The
threw them all away like water skiing: the characters, concepts, ideas and situations.
I sat down by the river and waited for the body of the enemy. In those moments
aspects, you have to do. Aspects, and if nothing happens, wait a while '.
Only what was returned to the surface to grab and feel useful to the affair, the story that I was going to tell. That time of
flowing from the idea of \u200b\u200ba story, writing a story, the development of a subject, the collection of appropriate documentation is in my view the most important and delicate stage in the writing of a comic, because if it proves inadequate even the best designer in the world to succeed in straightening of the fate of a comic book born evil.
This is the most valuable and simultaneously most unknown in the creation of a comic book: the weather.
Nobody will put in the credits of a cartoon of the time.

(pictured: Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea , 1951)