ILLUSTRATION
HOX GIANLUCA
VOX
MISSERO
To the woman I love
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NOTICE OF INTENTS Every illustration in this part of my Hox Vox catalogue, being it just an image carrying a simple signal or a complex communication, was born from a perception, a suffer respect to unbearable escape from our duties as civil democratic “evolved” people. My imagery, in many cases married to sounds and motion - and for a reason - wants to investigate the simplest attitudes by people without an aim, just living because they don’t want to die. They’re a great mistery to me, as I cannot conceive a life without objectives. A single magnificent and SO missed person was able to put upside-down my whole life, so this part of Hox Vox multimedia catalogue is dedicated to her work to destroy me and wake up again my will to dig things and lose no time with simples. This issue will be updated, as any part of my Hox Vox catalogue, as soon as I make a new project. Sometimes I add song lyrics, reflections or quotes to illustrations. If it makes sense, or if it’s possible, I try to put a link to what I’m talking about, it can be a music that fits as background music for that image, or an author I quoted and you want to dig further, an artist doing similar things. But as I cite authors and works, you can dig yourself by your favourite search engine what I mean. Anyway this isn’t my “best of”. I made thousands of illustrations, comics, strips, banners, animations, paintings, songs, and often I melted two or more arts in a single project; like in Viaggi Inauditi, paintings with sculptures in clay, or Mars Against the Imperialism, a sci-fi novel with soundtrack and illustrations, and a movie with all these media convoyed in a single stream. I tried to put into this catalogue the most emotional pieces of (supposed) art I wanted to fix into a single image. I used the verb “fix” to charge my concept about how to try to heal the suffer and the beauty of living.
NOTICE OF RIGHTS
Illustration was released with a Creative Commons 3.0 nc/nd license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0). You are free to: • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format • The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. Notices: • You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation. • No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
ILLUSTRATION CONTENTS Random illustration All CC 3.0 nc/nd images, in reverse chronological order - from 2016 to 1982. .......... 6
Heart (2014) A series of reflections on deceit, opportunism, traps, coldness and absence. ........ 74
Notepad (2014)
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A tiny 4x6� notepad and an HB pencil, for a few time - during 2014 - I wrote down everything came in my mind, whether being at home or around, in a single panel format. These are 5 of them. .................................................................................... 82
G!Kewl (2010) Some popping eyes toys I sketched for G!Kewl LLC................................................... 88
Datalogic (2007) A couple of characters and a series of tiny animations made with SmithMicro Anime Studio for the C-Pod, a shopping device by Datalogic. .............................................. 98
Fitem (2001) Animation, CD-Rom graphics and illustration made with Lightwave 3D. .................. 100
Primo Soccorso (1987) First aid manual for ULSS (local National Health unit). ........................................... 102
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Dinosaur (2016)
Ballpoint pen on office paper.
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Workout (2016)
Pencil on office paper, scan negative.
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Grazie, Giorgio Carpinteri (2016) Felt tip and watercolor pencils on A4 office paper. Giorgio Carpinteri was one of the most impressive italian cartoonists of all the times.
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Regrets (2016)
Watercolor pastels on A4 office paper.
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“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place... that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.�
Samuel Beckett, Watt
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“Year 2180. People can fly. At night the sky is covered by clouds of billowing sleepwalkers.” (2016) Pencil on office paper + Photoshop. Text by Danilo Zanelli, cartoon by Hox.
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A fat cat for a fairy tale (2016) Pastels on office paper.
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A gull and a pigeon for a fairy tale (2016) Pastels on office paper.
ting The gull - fake accomoda ly motherfucker, pushed on by his own advantage. Soft, complacent, clumsy in his alleged elegance, esn’t he occupies spaces he do deserve, Alberto Sordi’s ce follower of modern presen is not required. His pre one re sence h ason: as only eat-th To enn e g adduc oble his cowa oldfish. es spu rdly ac r s t a r is family circum ing from his stanc he crie es, s and sh unbea ove rably l oud pa s, rasite
hat , his t e c tan mation e prey s n i f an o confir round th al a ck sn know orn laze like a ja d, e e b stub es it mor e palmip gull mak nobl famous s a n tha this in he know o ay es t it, anyw et go of never go as not l victory ut who h b the t sts, . i a m th e lch al a go the a
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Hello World! (2015) Pencil on office paper
It’s a drawing made while listening to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Hello World! v. 2.0 (2016)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop. Added color and textures to the original illustration.
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It’s a picture book / sci-Fi novel with soundtrack and illustration I started in 2015. I already wrote first 5 chapters, about 45 minutes of music and made many sketches of characters, structures and landscapes. Temporarily on stand-by because
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Sketch of an alien from Mars Against the Imperialism (2015) Pencil on office paper.
being a huge, very long job it blocked other smaller projects: a couple of record (Covers with Hox Vox and Enough with Dead Hox), the travel book North Carolina Portraits, a compilation of first episodes by graphic novels I wrote and designed from 1985 to 2012, titled Empire Collapse and other odd comics, and two catalogues, this one and another about my paintings. This is a video trailer of Mars against the Imperialism. The partial soundtrack is available on Bandcamp.
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Morning (2015)
Pencil on office paper.
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Upside Down Martyr (2014)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
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Semblance (2014)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell, 1984
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Happy with it (2014) Pastels on office paper.
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Disobey is a duty! (2014)
Felt tip on office paper + Photoshop.
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Bewilderment (2014)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
On the left:
Travel (2014)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
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Duty now for the future (2014)
Never leaves a gap unfilled Always pays on time Always fits the bill He comes well prepared
Pencil on office paper.
Cube top, squared-off Eight corners, 90 degree angles Flat top, stares straight ahead Stock parts, blockhead Never tips over Stands up on his own He is a blockhead Thinking man full grown He comes well prepared Cube top, squared-off Eight corners, 90 degree angles Flat top, stares straight ahead Snake eyes, blockhead Flat top, stares straight ahead Stock parts, blockhead Never tips over Stands up on his own He is a blockhead Thinking man full grown He comes well prepared DEVO, track“Blockhead� from Duty Now for the Future (1979)
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Mature Lady Looking for Her Stolen Dildo (2013) Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
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Bignose (2013)
HW: Bosto Kingtee LCD tablet. SW: Manga Studio 5.
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Steampunk lad (2012) Pencil on office paper.
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EIAR (2010)
Pencil on A4 office paper + Photoshop.
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Thug, but believer (2002) Pencil on office paper.
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Michael Stipe (1999) Felt tips on carton.
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Katana Guy (1998)
Pencil on office paper + Photoshop.
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Anger (1995)
Pastels and felt tip on office paper.
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Billiard players on a starship (1995) Pencil on office paper.
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Astronaut Sleepwalker (1994)
Pastels on Fabriano F4 rough paper + Photoshop background.
“From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” Edgar Mitchel, Apollo 14 astronaut, speaking in People magazine on 8 April 1974.
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Paranoid smoker (1994)
Pencil and felt tip on yellow office paper
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Lil’ Dragon (1993)
Ballpoint pen on office paper + Photoshop.
Jazzanatomy EVERYTHING is jazz: snails, jails, rails, tails, males, females, snow-white cotton bales. Knee-bone, thigh, hip-bone. Jazz slips you percussion bone classified “unknown”. Slick lizard rhythms, cigar-smoke tunes, straight-gin sky laced with double moons. Second-chance rhythms, don’t-give-up riffs: jazz gets HIGH off can’ts, buts, and ifs. James Emanuel
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Hox (1991)
Pastels and felt tips on Fabriano F4.
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Educated hawk (1990)
Ballpoint pen on office paper.
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Backtracking youngsters (1990) Pastels on brown rice paper.
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Hox reading a newspaper (1989) Ballpoint pen on office paper.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
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A walk through the waste (1989)
Ballpoint pen, watercolour and felt tips on Fabriano F4 paper.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg Hans Christian Andersen
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Rage (1988)
Pastels and felt tips on office paper.
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Lion warrior (1988)
Felt tips and ballpoint pen on office paper.
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BigMouth (1988)
Pastels and felt tip on Fabriano F4 rough paper
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Dinosaur snack (1988)
Pastels on brown rice paper
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Depressed Goofy (1987)
Pastels and watercolor on Fabriano F4 paper.
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Patrolling (1989)
Pastels on office paper.
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La notte dell’Alaquasi (Night of Alaquasi, 1986) Ballpoint pen on brown rice paper.
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The Fireplace (1984)
Pastels and felt tip on Fabriano F4 rough paper
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Spider (1984)
Pastels and felt tip on Fabriano F4 rough paper.
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Poseidon (1982)
OSEIDON!
Rotring 0,1 on Fabriano F4
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Pencil is your Hand (1982)
Ballpoint pen and red felt tip on Fabriano F4 paper
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HEART
A series of reflections on deceit, opportunism, traps, coldness and absence. 2014 - Pastels on office paper + Photoshop
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So far, so near
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Ambush
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Flown
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Heartring
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Malice
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notepad
2014 - Pencil on squared paper
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g!kewl
A series of popping eyes toys I sketched for G!Kewl LLC (merchandising company based in Nashville). 2010 - Pastels on office paper. g!kewl
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Little Nixon
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Frog
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Cow
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Pig
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Monkey
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Halloween • Pumpkin
g!kewl
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Halloween • Witch
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Halloween • Ghosts
Cow II
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Monkey II
Chicken
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In 2007 I created a couple of characters, a bunny and a strange hairy spherical dude + a series of tiny animations (with SmithMicro Anime Studio) for the C-Pod, an experimental shopping device by Datalogic.
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Fitem is a company making automated control systems applied to shutters, awnings and interior blinds, swarms of PCs and created their network. But my company was about IT and multimedia. So one day, in 2001, I purpose them a full option pack: website + two 3D tv ads (to be used also in some fairs, on mega-screens) + catalogue on CD-Rom (connected with,s and updated by the website) + a few advertising for newspapers and magazines. They accepted. On the left a rough rendering, with briefly modeled interiors, for the main CD-Rom interface. Up here an image we used many times for advertising on local newspaper (with the proper space to write in the reflection, what I’m doing now, indeed). The rest are screenshots from Fitem 1 and Fitem 2 videos.
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First aid manual for Italian National Health, finished in february 1987 (issued two months after, while I got drafted). In end 80s there were still no high level graphic hardware and software: Apple’s top was the Mac Plus, first decent vector graphics software Aldus Freehand came out with his 1.0 release in 1988. Both me and the Art Director Prandi wanted a very clean, icon-style approach. I tried with curve tools, ruler and Rotring, but images were very clean, too clean... they were rigid. Then we found a solution. I made all the illustrations using typography strips for lines, bending them to obtain curves by a trimming knife; and Ulano film to define colors. We were really satisfied of the result, it looks like a series of vector images made with Illustrator, or Flash. Btw, what a nightmare drawing with gummy strips!
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On the left, the frontpage of my notes at the anatomy course by Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia (State Art School of Venice) I designed in 1984. Down it’s a panel I did for a test during 3rd year, on a cm 35x50 Fabriano F4.
I don’t think anatomy is something you can get rid of, wherever you’re pointing to. Even if you’re into abstract art - abstraction doesn’t necessary means to leave your body, discorporate, like in Zappa’s Absolutely Free. By the way I loved it, understanding bones and muscles - all aimed to related body volumes - is quite exciting. Of course I started to search the skeleton in everything I was drawing or painting, also into objects or even landscapes; before studying anatomy I relied only on volumes, that way I was losing many dynamics you can extrapolate only by knowing the structure. Bones tells you a lot about the attitude, posture, the weight in doing movements. Whatever; cheers, and thanks for your attention! Gianluca Missero
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Illustration - A volume of Hox Vox Catalogue First issue: September 14, 2016
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