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THE ENTIRE WORLD OF
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EVOLUTION
The new world where Zick and Elena are adults attending college and confronting new challenges and enemies!
DELUXE EDITION
All the original series in two volumes and an Extra!
COLLECTION
The original series in ten volumes of three episodes each!
C o lle c t i o n 1
Collection 2
C o ll e c t ion 3
Collection 4
C ol l ec tion 5
Collection 6
C ol l ec ti on 7
Collection 8
C o lle c t i o n 9
Collection 10
Gud
Rights sold: USA (volumes 1, 2 and 3)
The titular character of this book is a boy who one night finds that he has gained the superpower of the green thumb and the ability to make the plants grow. An evil businessman, mr plumbee, is planning to destroy the old tree and the whole city park, so Timothy stands up against him using his new powers. In this crusade he makes new friends with other gifted children and even manages to save his parents from the clutches of a funny trio of aliens who are helping mr plumbee in his crave for dominion. This saga, a smash hit in italy, is specifically made for children, as Gud, the author, created the story with the help of his 6 years old son. It’s fresh, entertaining and will make any child fight the right battles screaming “KAramazov!� like the idols of the protagonist!
“Life is full of fantastic tests and this time a small unicorn born from a flower will overcome them.”
7+ PESCARA E SULMONA
GUNI
n° 66 112 pp FULL COLOUR ROUNDED
Tauro – Karicola
19,5x27 cm
The authors of the witty Claire and Malù
16,00
Fabled animal
978-88-6790-294-1
Coming-of-age path
BIOGRAPHIES Tauro
Nom de plume for Antonio Silvestri (Sulmona, 1979). He teaches at the Accademia del fumetto in Pescara, and has created strips for blogs, satirical weekly magazines and newspapers. Currently he works as cartoonist for Il Fatto Quotidiano, and in 2016 he published Claire and Malù, his first book in the Tunué collection «Tipitondi».
Karicola
Nom de plume for Chiara Colagrande (Pescara, 1984). She teaches at the Accademia del fumetto in Pescara, and works as penciller and inker for foreign and Italian publishers - Play Press and Delcourt. She also designs colouring books and sticker albums for several publishing groups. In 2016 she published Claire and Malù, her first book for Tunué.
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The Sphere is a suspended place where fruits are bright and juicy, and the clouds brush the frothy foliages of the trees. The Gudlaks, the magical animals who have to direct for the better the lives of the human beings, live in this land after they have learnt the lessons from the Destiny Sages. Guni, a small unicorn with a funny muzzle, has just been born from a flower of the Life Meadow and, even though he has a lot to learn, he thinks he is ready to inspire the good deeds of a human. So he decides to take the TwisterBus and go to the Earth, getting himself and his friends into trouble: Delpi the bird with glasses, Corrado the little tiger and Printil, a mermaid floating in a water ball. Tauro and Karicola return with a witty and poetic coming-of-age story, reminding us that the steps to really grow never cross easy shortcuts.
“A Stand by me-like story set among the Scandinavian glaciers.”
8+ FRANCIA
n° YY 64 pp FULL COLOUR ROUNDED
Christian Galli
19,5x27 cm
For the readers who loved Miss Smilla’s feeling of snow
14,90
Coming of age in the northern lands
978-88-6790-245-3
The tale of a friendship
BIOGRAPHY Christian Galli
He got the degree at the Accademy of Fine Arts of Bologna, he pubblished some comic work with the review Internazionale, and this is his first book.
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THE HEAT OF THE SNOW
Norway, early 90s. Under the cover of silence, four 10-year old boys decide to leave with a secret mission early in the morning. It won’t be an easy journey in the majestic snowy landscapes: among the several obstacles, they will have to cross a frozen lake, they will lose their sled and they will even be caught by a blizzard. With the unravelling of the path, it will become clearer and clearer they are not simply fleeing from home. They are actually engaged in a salvage mission to find Simen’s older brother. Fredrik, in fact, has been running away for days after a fight with his parents, and they want to convince him and come back home. With a line able to recreate all the liveliness of the main characters and pastel colours that perfectly reproduce the light of the northern environments, Christian Galli delivers a story of friendship and tells about that delicate moment when a child is finally ready “to leave his nest”.
“A book for those who dare to disappear in the forest.”
10+
VIKTORIA
n° 106 pp FULL COLOUR ROUNDED 19,5x27 cm
Gaia Cardinali The chivalric epic poetry meets the brothers Grimm XVI century Germany Period “bildungs-comics”
BIOGRAPHY Gaia Cardinali (Ancona, 1992) She graduated at the Applied Arts School in Iesi in 2010 and started the course of Comics and Illustration at the Fine Arts Academy in Bologna. Viktoria is her first graphic novel.
tunué Rights sold: USA
Viktoria is a 14-year old German girl. Bold, bright and intolerant of all the XVI Century rules which would have her as a role model of scholarship, responsibility and good manners, she shuns from the dullness coiling herself in the burning remembrance of her dead mother and reshaping reality with her imagination. When her family leaves Strasburg to relocate in a small village, where everything seems lifeless and rigid, Viktoria, heedless of her father’s punishments and the dark forebodings of her ill brother, gives herself up to the charm of the Black Forest and to the sweet magnetism of a forbidden bond, until the truth calls her back to brand her destiny. Gaia Cardinali creates an unbridled fairy tale, made of dense colours and strong lines, where love and rebellion tie together with the loss and the return.
“The lands of the North. A legend told by a shaman. A child on a journey to become a man.”
7+ BOLOGNA
n° xx 112 pp FULL COLOUR ROUNDED
Enrico Orlandi
19,5x27 cm
Lappish northern saga
16,00
Adventurous fantasy
978-88-6790-xxx-x
BIOGRAPHY Enrico Orlandi
In 2015 he got the degree at the Fine Arts Academy, and this is his first book.
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THE FLOWER OF THE WITCH
Coming-of-age, growth and assumption of one’s own role journey When the legends were young, in the farthest northern part of Lapland, near the village of Kariga, the young Mira and her father Eemil find a fainted child in the middle of the snow. The child’s name is Tami, and he says he is a warrior on a journey to become a man. While wandering through the lands of the North he faced bandits and defeated monsters, he found wealth and treasures but none of these exploits made him a man, and now Tami does not know what he can still do. However, after so many quests, the child also met an old shaman, who told him that in the far north, beyond the village of Kariga, a witch lives. She cultivates some beautiful flowers and if Tami manages to be so skilled and clever to seize the flowers of the witch, then he can finally become a man.
“The visionary story of Tazio Nuvolari before the miracle, before the myth.”
ROME
MIRARI
TAZIO
n° 7 64 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER
Lorenzo Terranera
19,5x27 cm
The animator of the TV talk show Ballarò opening credits
17,00
The world of the auto races
978-88-6790-286-6
How to achieve one’s dreams
BIOGRAPHY Lorenzo Terranera
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(Rome, 1968) Illustrator and designer, he has created the set for the Rai3’s tv talk show Ballarò for twelve years. He is the author of the design and the animations for the tv talk show DiMartedì, hosted by the journalist G. Floris on the La7 tv channel. In 2005 he co-founded with Fabio Magnasciutti the school of illustration Officina B5, where he teaches “Illustration for children”. He has illustrated over eighty books for many Italian publishers, public institutions and international organizations, such as Unicef, Amnesty International and Agesci.
1935: Grand Prix of Germany, Nurburing circuit. Enzo Ferrari’s Alfa Romeo competes with old P3 models and seems to be doomed to make a poor appearance, compared to the light, powerful and state-of-the-art German cars. But the winding and difficult circuit is tailored for Tazio Nuvolari. The curves have always been his allies, his accomplices: the miracle happens, and the exhilarating victory makes him a legend. However, this is the end of the story, and Lorenzo Terranera wants to tell us the beginning, when Tazio is a child flying on a turtle, fixing up and reassembling with his father old bicycle wheels. At the end of his races in the sky, he looks upwards, lying on a colourful leaf carpet, with his little head covered by glasses and aviator cap. An exciting journey without words between history and dream.
“Is what I’m feeling love?”
MAYBE LOVE MIRARI n° 4 48 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER 24x17 cm
14,90 978-88-6790-222-4
BIOGRAPHIES Silvia Vecchini
Born in Perugia (1975), she writes children and YA novels, illustrated and tactile books published in Italy and abroad. She obtained a wide success both of public and critics with Fiato sospeso, drawn by Sualzo and winner of 2012 Carlo Boscarato Award and 2013 Orbil Balloon Award. She is also the writer of Gaetano & Zolletta stories, published by Bao Publishing.
Sualzo
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Antonio “Sualzo” Vincenti (Perugia, 1969) is an author and an illustrator. With his graphic novel L’improvvisatore (Rizzoli-Lizard) he won the award as “Best Story” at the Festi’BD at Moulins in 2009. With Fiato sospeso, written by Silvia Vecchini, he won the Carlo Boscarato Award in 2012 as “Best comics for children and teenagers”. In 2013 he published Fermo for Bao Publishing, while in 2016 he drew Una cosa difficile, always written by Silvia Vecchini.
Silvia Vecchini, Sualzo From the same creators of Fiato sospeso Winners of Orbil Award and Boscarato Award An adolescence story
A boy, a girl. A day at school. From lesson to lesson, from classroom to classroom their thoughts intertwine. It is maybe the first time they feel watched, returned, long-waited. Everything around them seems to talk a different language and everything resembles to what they feel is blossoming. Forse l’amore, the new book by Sualzo and Silvia Vecchini – winners of the Carlo Boscarato Award as “Best comics for children and teenagers” for Fiato sospeso in 2012 – is a tender, intelligent and genuine story which fits in the daily life of two adolescents, effectively giving us back their reflections, their reactions, their thoughts, their first and shy approach to new situations and new feelings.
Rights sold: USA (volumes 1, and 2)
8+
“Is it more correct to protect or to set free the ones we love?”
BRINA
n°48 96 pp FULL COLOUR ROUNDED 19,5x27 cm
14,90 978-88-6790-149-4
BIOGRAPHIES Giorgio Salati
Milan, 1978) He is a fiction and comics writer. He has collaborated with the magazine La settimana enigmistica, Huntik Magazine and Mono, and he was one of the writers of the series Le straordinarie avventure di Jules Verne (LuxVide?Rai Fiction), L’albero azzurro (Rai 2), and for Zelig Club, too.
Christian Cornia
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(Modena, 1975) He is an illustrator and colourist. He has worked for Piemme, DeAgostini, Unipol, Mirabilandia, and in France for Soleil and Delcourt. He was an inker for Marvel USA, and from 2011 he teaches at the International School of Comics in Reggio Emilia.
Giorgio Salati, Christian Cornia For the readers who love the Disney universe From one of the writers of the Rai series Jules Verne and L’albero azzurro A comparison between the human and animal feelings
The city cat Brina and her owners move to the mountain for the Summer holidays. There, she meets some stray cats who are called “The Feline Sun Gang”. Her new friends convince her to run away and become a free cat. But if the raids in the wood makes Brina aware of a life style and an emancipation she didn’t know anything about it, on the other hand this new situation will throw her owners into panic, since they don’t accept to lose who they consider as an important member of their family. With a well-crafted attention to the human and feline feelings, Salati and Cornia are able to portray the theme of the difficult balance between the protection of the ones we love, the freedom to let them make mistakes, and the chance to make it on one’s own efforts.
“The story of an armadillo who knows luck and of a scarab who knows kindness.”
VENICE
MIRARI n° 6 48 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER
THE SECRET OF CENTRAL PARK
Maria Gianola
27x19,5 cm
How to overcome the pain of being forsaken
17,00
The theme of friendship
978-88-6790-285-9
The illustrator of Tiziano Scarpa’s Un amico spaventoso
BIOGRAPHY Maria Gianola
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JORGE & PEPITO
(Venice, 1969). After her University studies, she turns to oil painting and then to illustration. She is very fond of Nero and Matilde, the characters she invented for the pages of the magazines Famiglia Cristiana and GBaby. Among her other books: Senza... (La Coccinella, 2017), Palla di neve sporca. La vera storia della stella di Natale (Jaca Book, 2016).
Jorge is an armadillo who survived to the disastrous shipwreck of the Panamanian oil tanker Gran Zenith in 1977. He lives happily and quiet in Central Park, in a well hidden glade among the oaks. Pepito is a scarab, badly fallen in a puddle, which is saved by a child, Gilles. He begins his new life with a sugar lump, an apple clove, a water bowl and a carpet of leaves. One day Jorge loses his family and, like Pepito, is found by a child, Gynevre. He is very afraid, and he longs his loved ones even more. But this time there are his new friends to let him discover that, in addition to luck, which can save you from the shipwrecks, there is also the kindness, which comes from the others and can save you, too.
PERA COMICS
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HOTTEST INSTAGRAMMER
WHO KILLED KENNY?
Rights sold: USA
TOPICS: BOOK-GAME, PUZZLES, LATERAL THINKING, HUMOR
more than half a million followers on instagram! 112pp, 11,5x15cm hardcover, full colour, € 12,00
ISBN 978-88-6790-302-3
“A sea monster, a community on the brink of the abyss and an inscrutable child.”
KRAKEN
PROSPERO’S EXTRA n° 30 94 pp DUOTONE HARDCOVER 19,5x27cm
Rights sold: France, Poland, Spain, film adaptation
Bruno Cannucciari, Emiliano Pagani A dark, modern fairy tale
16,90
An existential nightmare
978-88-6790-241-5
A disenchanted, thriller-like story
BIOGRAPHIES
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Bruno Cannucciari He starts publishing on «Comic Art», reprising the Yellow Kid character. Hired in November 1986 by «Italia Oggi» as cartoonist and illustrator, in late 1988 he creates Winny for the magazine «Lupo Alberto» and, after that, he starts working on the well-known Lupo Alberto character, created by Silver. Emiliano Pagani He starts collaborating with the satirical magazine «Il Vernacoliere» in 1991. He publishes his first comic title in 2005, collecting the stories dedicated to the family Quagliotti. His most important success is the Don Zauker series, the blasphemer and irascible exorcist priest. Among his other works: X-Nerd – Eroi di pace (2011), Nirvana (Panini, 2011), Slobo e Golem (2016).
Selalgues is a small town on the Northern coast of France, where the sky is leaden, the seagulls whirl when the fishing boats pass and the community, subdued by the scarcity and the existential strain, takes shelter in the prejudice and the superstition. To pay for it is mostly Damien, a difficult boy who decided to find and kill the Kraken: the sea creature he thinks to be responsible for the death of his father and brother. His voice, however, remains unheeded: Damien, in fact, has witnessed the worst tragedies happened in the village and he was always the only one who came out alive. Could it be him, actually, the monster, bearer of misfortune? Emiliano Pagani and Bruno Cannucciari create a disenchanted work with dark hues, where the solitude becomes more and more visible and the sleep of reason abuses, ruining the human soul.
“An extraordinary life dealing with ordinary mafia people.”
SICILY
THE MINKIAMAN WAR
PROSPERO’S BOOK n° 89 160 pp, B/W, HARDCOVER
16,8x24 cm
Renowned Italian Cartoonist
16,00
Mafia told in every day life
978-88-6790-259-0
A story of emancipation and payback
BIOGRAPHY Gianni Allegra
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Gianni Allegra
(Palermo, 1956) Painter, illustrator and satirical author, his first works appear in the magazine I Siciliani directed by the brave journalist Giuseppe Fava, who will be a victim of the mafia. Later he collaborates with the Palermo newspaper L’Ora and then came to the national magazines Comix, Linus (from 1985), L’Unità, Avvenimenti (from 1989 to 2000) and above all Cuore, of which he became one of the columns, and also Tango and Smemoranda. Since 1999 he has been drawing cartoons for the news pages of Palermo Repubblica. Since the late nineties he has been pursuing a pictorial research that has seen his works exhibited in every part of Italy.
A child abandoned in the countryside on the outskirts of Balarm Town, cared for by an old man and his three dogs, with whom he talks, plays and shares everything. But grown up and now a teenager, he still doesn’t know the harshness of life. The bullies of the suburbs will fill the gap. It will be Giacomo, a failed teacher and mafia man of small businesses, to begin him to sex and teach him to be respected. After his catastrophic experiences with a couple of prostitutes, he discovers that he has extraordinary intelligence and that he possesses incredible physical strength when helped by certain blue pills. And while Balarm Town becomes the scene of a ruthless war between mafia gangs fighting for controlling the territory, Totuccio has turned from Tutto Minchia into Minkiaman. Gianni Allegra gives us a story of cruel love, without redemption, capable of revealing the darkest sides of human relations.
“Every land is home, every land is foreign.”
THE MEMORY OF THE SEA TURTLES
ROMA PROSPERO’S BOOKS n° 85 176 pp FULL COLOUR, HARDBACK 16,8x24 cm
France, Spain
For those who loved Terraferma and Fuocoammare
16,90
Facing the risk of changing your life or leaving everything as it is?
978-88-6790-250-7
Migration through the metaphor of marine turtles
BIOGRAPHY Simona Binni
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Simona Binni
(Rome 1975). Graduated in Psychology of the evolutionary age, graduated from the Roman school of comics. She works as a storyboard artist in advertising for the Telecomitalia Cloud. Since 2013 she has collaborated with the Giffoni Film Festival and with Rome Film Academy. In the Tipitondi series of Tunué she published Amina e il vulcano, winner at the Romics 2015 prize as the Best debut, and Dammi la mano. In 2016 is released, always for Tunué but this time in the series Prospero’s Books, Siverwood Lake.
Giacomo and Davide are brothers and they grew up in Lampedusa, an island that to Giacomo is like a cage leaving the world aside and waiting, and to Davide is the home that is impossible to ignore. The first, now adult, abandons him for Milan, a work at the bank and the neon lights on the nightclubs, resentful of the brother’s stubbornness, which instead remains and dedicates soul and body to the study of sea turtles, able to return to the place where they were born even after twenty years of distance. When Davide suddenly dies, Giacomo is forced to revisit the island, where and old boat, a woman, a fisherman and a foreign child rescued by the sea await him, and along with a reel of memories, they will push him to redefine the meaning of the word horizon. Simona Binni writes a story of great relevance, in which the theme of brotherhood and roots invests the equally complex immigration and migration issue.
“The true face of life is the skull.” Nikos Kazantzakis
TOSCANA LAZIO PROSPERO’S BOOKS n°YY 128 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER
Marco Nucci, Giovanni Nardone
16,8x24 cm
A true story
16,90
Heroism
978-88-6790-258-3
The dark side of the human soul
BIOGRAPHIES Marco Nucci
(Castiglione dei Pepoli, 1986) He has been collaborating for the Sergio Bonelli Editore publishing house since 2015. There, he wrote a story for Dylan Dog and one for the title Le Storie. In 2017 he wrote La tana di Zodor, his first graphic novel for Tunué, drawn by Isaak Friedl.
Giovanni Nardone
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SKULL
(Sora, 1990) In 2016 he collaborated with the self-published magazine Sciame – based in Bologna – and with the Belgian magazine 64page. He lives and studies in Bologna.
Skull is the snapshot of a mental landscape as bare as a rock and as black as coal. We’re talking about the mind of Adam Lanza, the twenty-year old boy who on December 14th 2012, armed with two guns and an automatic rifle, entered the Sandy Hook School and killed 27 people. Skull is also the story of Victoria Soto, the young teacher who saved many students during the massacre, hiding them inside some cabinets. Nucci and Nardone don’t want to report the bare events, but to investigate the ecstatic part of the facts, to analyse them in their psychoanalytic symbolism, to transfigure them into dream-like splinters. To watch them from afar, with modest dread. And to scare the reader, bringing back the real nightmare to its fictitious stylized simulacrum.
“If we had magic powers, would we really become heroes?”
MILANO, BOLOGNA PROSPERO’S BOOKS n° 88 160 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER 16,8x24 cm
17,00 978-88-6790-255-2
BIOGRAPHIES Giorgio Salati
He started working on the Mickey Mouse magazine, and he still is one of its writers. He collaborated with the La settimana enigmistica magazine, and he wrote the scripts both for some cartoon series produced by Rai, Rainbow and other big groups, and for tv shows like L’albero azzurro. Currently, he is writing for the Sergio Bonelli, and he published for Tunué the graphic novel Brina.
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Armin Barducci
He worked for publishers like BeccoGiallo, Comma22, Coniglio and NPE, he co-founded the Monipodio! Group, he is part of the G.I.U.D.A. project and teaches comics. His latest book is Misantromorfina (Eris).
SUSPENDED Giorgio Salati Armin Barducci The comics writer of Mickey Mouse weekly magazine and Brina A psychological graphic novel set in the teenager world For those who loved They call me Jeeg and The Invisible Boy A young suburban boy is bullied by his schoolmates, he feels the first hormonal attractions for a classmate, he doesn’t get along with his parents and he has only a friend, a nerd like him. This is Marty’s reality… until one day he discovers he can pause all his surrounding world. And this is not the only magic he realizes he can do: he is also able to fly and beat someone while at a distance. He’s got powers, like the comics characters, and he will try confusedly to use them and improve his life. However, he won’t live a quiet life. The mix of frustration, anger and omnipotence inside him is an explosive cocktail leading to actions more and more careless, revealing a state of mind no longer connected with the reality. Salati and Barducci use the tools of pop culture to create a portrait of youthful despair and show us the disruption of an anguished person.
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18,90 18,90 978-88-6790-197-5 978-88-6790-197-5
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“Alice in Wonderland meets 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea... and you have Sofia.”
BOLOGNA PROSPERO’S BOOK EXTRA n° 32 192 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER
Marco Nucci, Kalina Muhova
19,5x27 cm
A fight against the illness
27,00
High quality style, like in the French productions
978-88-6790-274-3
Enchanting, baroque fairy tale
BIOGRAPHIES Marco Nucci
(Castiglione dei Pepoli, 1986) He has been working for Sergio Bonelli Editore since 2015, writing an issue for Dylan Dog and a story for the collection «Le Storie». In 2017 he creates, with Isaak Friedl, the graphic novel La tana di Zodor ( Tunué).
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SOFIA FROM THE OCEAN
Kalina Muhova
(Sofia, 1993) She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and she is the founder of the self-published magazine Brace.
Sofia is 7 years old, she’s tall as an umbrella stand and a strange illness, called Red Shadow, forces her to stay away from the city air. The child, locked in a small villa on the sea together with her incomprehensibles uncles, shares her thoughts with her doll Veronica, a big cat named Meow and the Ocean, to which she writes long letters in the bottle asking for a pink dress, the knowledge of the world and some true friends. One day the Ocean answers sending her Occhioblu, the Captain of a crew formed by rabbits, spiders, flamingoes and sea horses, who takes her to a journey in a submarine, in order to defeat Prince Illness and find the fabled healing crystals, hidden in the depth of the abysses. Marco Nucci and Kalina Muhova create a graphic novel full of delicate, baroque oddities and metaphysical touches, for an adventurous, seafaring fairy tale where easy things don’t teach anything.
“A graphic novel about the desire to be alive when you are alive.”
PESCARA PROSPERO’S BOOK n° 79 96 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVERED
GRANDPARENTS Tonio Vinci
17x24 cm
For the fans of Charles Bukowski
14,90
The biting mark of the elderly people
978-88-6790-230-9
BIOGRAPHY Tonio Vinci
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He graduated at the International School of Comics in Reggio Emilia. He has published his strips in Vincenzo Sparagna’s Il Male, Animals, Sbam Comics, and he draws comics and strips for Agenda Ridens. He collaborates with the fashion company Su.Go., Neon Magazine and Fatigatur, a tourist company for the illustrations of comic/touristic maps. Nonni/Grandparents is his first graphic novel.
Sandro is a retired postman, he’s 72 and, after Lidia’s sudden death, the woman of his life he met at school, he gives himself up to a seclusion filled with cigarettes, fake card games and meals at the light of his old TV set. His days pass slowly and unhappily repetitive until he discovers a world of elderly for whom life, and especially sex, are part of their gratifying, playful and completely normal present. Then Sandro falls in love again, he experiences, as if in a second adolescence, the flesh pleasure and reckons with the missed opportunities of his past. With an original and, at the same time, grotesque touch, Antonio Vinci creates a tragicomic story, tinged with a delicate nostalgia, to reminds us that life doesn’t know anything about the years, as Charles Bukowski used to say.
“The disenchanted history of two boys looking for love.”
TOSCANA PROSPERO’S BOOK n° 91 176 pp FULL COLOUR HARDCOVER
Stefano Casini
17x24 cm
youth and love
17,00
70s
978-88-6790-314-6
lightness and discover of life
BIOGRAPHY Stefano Casini
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THE BEST YEARS
Graduated from the High School of Industrial Design, he is a leading author of Sergio Bonelli Editore. His works have been translated into more than ten countries. This is his second work for Tunué after Di altre storie e di altri eroi. In 2016 he was invited to China to participate in the World Artist Illustrate Beijing project, with ten other colleagues of various nationalities.
The graphic novel, set in a small town on the Tuscan Riviera, presents Max and Saverio, two teenagers with no worries, besides the girls, who try to understand more about life. Their best years are dedicated to discover the women, to rock music... with the background of the early 70s, the first women demands, vintage characters, “cursed” and fascinating heroes.
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Cecilia Raneri
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