In 90 minutes, the success of comics and the evolution of their language are recounted, following the changes in format.
It starts with the colour plates published in the Sunday supplements of US newspapers, then moves on to strips, comic books and then to the Italian, French and Japanese formats. This leads to the graphic novel and the web comic, which is a kind of solution to the format problem. All this, moving from comics that focus on the characters to comics that focus on their authors.
Luca Raffaelli is a writer and expert in comics and animated cinema. Considered one of the leading figures in the world of Italian comics and animated cinema, he has been the director and creator of festivals (Cartoombria, Castelli Animati, Romics, La città incantata), the editor of series and the author of introductions to volumes (including I classici a fumetti by Repubblica, the Collezione storica a colori by Tex, Zagor, Dylan Dog also by Repubblica, Ken Parker by Mondadori, and Crepax and Pratt again by Repubblica). A long-standing contributor to Repubblica and il Venerdì di Repubblica, he has been running a column in Lanciostory since 1994, for which he has entered the Guinness Book of Records. He has published several essays, including “Il fumetto” for Il Saggiatore/Flammarion in 1997, and Tratti e ritratti, i grandi personaggi del fumetto da Alan Ford a Zagor for minimumfax in 2009. Tunué has now reprinted “Le anime disegnate, il pensiero nei cartoon da Disney ai giapponesi”, originally published by Castelvecchi in 1994 and reprinted by minimumfax in 2005, and also published in French. He has published the novel “Lo spazio dentro” for Mincione edizioni. A television writer, he wrote the screenplay for the animated film Johan Padan with Giulio and Lorenza Cingoli, based on a play by Dario Fo, and he collaborates on the programme Wonderland on Rai4 and on Wikiradio on Radiotre. Mina sang one of his songs: Ninna pa’.
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Cover image: detail from “Il Professor Pi” by Bob Van den Born
Communications Office of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
Coordination: Prof. Guglielmo Gigliotti g.gigliotti@abaroma.it
Collaboration: Chiara Picco, Martina Macchia, Marianna Pontillo comunicazione@abaroma.it