Double Page for D(X)I Magazine.

Ok, here is a picture of hum...ya, should be one month ago. It's a double page made for D(X)I magazine, sort of cultural something that speaks of design, art and other junks distributed somewheres in Spain. I'm in it and the double page really, it smells very good. I've been drawing untill two, doctor said I should take a better rithm on my work. Someone can explain my doctor that illustrators and comics designer are kind of drawing sixteen hours a day without noticing most of the things happening out of their atelier? Well, pressure is good, heart also, it's stress. She said it's stress. I agree. I chosed the wrong job, I should have studied for becoming a doctor. Or a punk poet. Or I don't know, those kind of useless things as mine. I doubt anyway that I can eat one hundred valium pills and arrive to the bottom of a Keglevitch bottle as a punk poet, even not the half as maybe a shoegaze one. I think I'm ok with a yogurt, some wafers and a cleaner apartment.

Hugs


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Simpathy For The Gators -Evolutionism as never saw before

Ok guys, I'm coming back. Sorry if I didn't post anything. I am trying to understand how to make better this blog but as I'm not a good web technician it wonna change at least untill I don't have an enlightment. There are a "couple" of news. 'been published here and there and still now I'm on some projects. Please stay tuned.

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Open Mike Academy:Hey Baby, Take A Walk on the Wild Side

Seasoned readers, addicted fellas and friends, I'm sorry to take a so long period of silence. I am not still busy, I'm just taking a pause. It's good to take a pause sometimes :) overall when the weather is not all the time incredibly helpfull for drawing, for the eyes, for the inspiration. Back to all soon, I promess!

Yours

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Schiaffo Edizioni- L'Uomo Visibile

Hello dear fellas and visual addicted, here are the new illustrations for - Schiaffo Edizioni -. The idea coming from a team of creative heads moving around the reality of Modena and Bologna city is to take three people -> one writer, an illustrator and a graphic designer (that shakes everything together), and making a unique something coming from them. An illustrated short tale that is possible to send -the size is the same of a postcard-, hang on a wall with a golden baroque frame or keeping it under the short leg of the kitchen table -for this you need lots-. More detail about them here ->http://www.tastemeat.com/schiaffo/

P.s.- Some people and not just Marino asks why the Hell writing in English. Let's say that Italian language or even french are not really "for everybody". So, or I do a new blog for fellas and another for the community (the rest of the world is quite big and no, anybody of them speaks a fluent italian or french... So I prefer to keep, at least here, writing with my antigramaticalignorant english) or well... Well, vote for it! A new contest is launched! English against rest of the world! Who wants what?!?!?!

Yours,


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FEFE' PROJECT- THE MAMMOTH MAG STRIKES AGAIN

Some months ago I met Mr Vernieri, the art director of a rising Mammoth Magazine made in Italy with the visual collaboration of many, really many artists, graphic and comics designer from all over the world. The idea behind FEFE' project is something misteriously conceptual but so conceptual that it's easy to get it, like a quantum geriatric couple escaping from their nurse through the toilet tub. And I like it. This maybe is the most incredible thing, I liked a so called -conceptual proudly to be it- magazine for creative people. So, in Luxembourg at the Symposium of Independent Magazine we met, we had some tasty prosecco with the other fellas and I promised to do an illustration for him under the thema given for that issue. I was happy to meet such a nice crew so I've done some very radical drawing. In Barcelona then, at the presentation of the new number of the magazine I discovered they gave me not just the possibility to be in the list of the people published, that allready it's nice, but I got the front page. For the second time this year I was the choosen artist for the cover of a design magazine. I mean, fuck, nice not? When I do my work in my room I really try to give my best. Sometimes people doesn't get how much energy there is in a single piece and how much passion I put in it. I was really happy about that collab, not for the cover only, but because there is a real connection between people respecting each other when the basic is making the good. Coherence pays back.

Around The Fire

Hello Hello! It's incredible. Outside the weather is sunny, sky is blue (it's November!!! It should be grey and foggy here!!!!) and I finished ten minutes ago to read the first number of Garth Ennis and steve Dillon's " Preacher"...Soon I move out for a walk. I don't know, this volume has more than ten years but it's absolutely one of my favourites tales. It's like Lobo, it relax my brain and burn the bad thoughts. Recently I took back from the graveyard also a genuine volume of Mezzo and Pirus, Armed and Dangerous. There is so much inside these books... Some months ago, it was May, I went inside a comics store in Vienna, next by a big street in the central area. It was a treasure of whatever could make shine my eyes, but I had very few minutes. Franco, a friend, and Henna were waiting me outside with the car on the railway street and The Choice was urgent... "Hurry up and bring yourself here immediately" they just said in chorus. In some hours I knew we had to separate; she was flyin to Finland, I was taking a train for Italy and one month had to run before seeing us again. In that period before we left I believed she was looking me really strange when I was speaking about comics. Better, d'you know this feeling when Her eyes turns like guns and shoot all the miserable words you say? Ya, exactly. Now I also understand that at that time I was so unsecure about what I wanted to do that one day I was speaking about being tempted to do a school and the other one to run a graphic design agency, so I completely understand her point of view and her disappointment. But, but but but but... I wanted absolutely to give her something that really could make me understand if it was a savage allergy to all the comics world or if , with the right choice, I could leave to her something special that could at least begin a process of understandment.
What taking as present for making her see something completely out from the idea of "comics" she had? I took the volume of -Watchman-.Alan Moore. Jesus, if this doesn't work, I'm ready to pay my debts and become a monk, I said. For me it was a real discover when I bought it, even if I was allready a comics enthousiastic reader. But for me? What could I take for me for the loOoOooOong travel? The choice fell on Forty Niners, written by the same Alan Moore of Henna's Watchman and designed by Gene Ha. But I wanted something more. It was in that moment I took 100 Batman made by Paul Pope, and that, well, made me realize how much wonderfull is to experience some creative mind working together in the narration of a story. Thanks to Paul Pope on the train I didn't felt alone, it was a bizarre sensation, Henna was far, but I could feel like in a forest, under the tent with a little lamp. Somehow I really desired to go on drawing, thanks to a volume of Batman...Scary hun? On Monday I will move to Milan and fly to Henna in Finland. It's like my real birthday of the year... Ciao Bubu!!! :P

About the image...Ya, ya... I know, You want something new, but this is one of the illustrations made for -O.U.T.!- Somehow I want to make you understand how much I dedicated my attention to that project. Keep in touch!

The distance of the ants -vices and virtues of a regrettable experience-

-Once Upon a Time!- was a project I was working on untill one month ago. Now -O.U.T.!- finished to be runt. Sometimes things like these finish, they finish exausted for a misunderstandment, harmonized by intellectual differences or a lack of trust. They decade for a a privilege mostly, that all the believers in the old Bible of the Old Capitalistic view are thinking to represent, to personify and to handle. It is something that sounds like this : I will fuck you, because I allready fucked many before and you represent just a benefit more in my bank account. You know why this people is going to die with nothing in their hand more than a good prayer from a priest -by the way, paied for being there-? Because they are part of an establishment that grew up waisting the life of entire communities, families, writers, artists, engineers, teachers, with a not so subtle mechanism of esclavage. The freedom from provincialism is purging most of the boogey mans of this category and if still they stand it means that it's not enough the position, the people's choice between creating human value and esclavage to these incredible old dinosaurs. This project died for lies made for covering other lies and again and again and I should be frustrated just because I didn't trust my instinct and I got on for two months even if it was all smelling burned and maybe the house was allready in flames.
-O.U.T.!- had all my attentions, I made a lot for making a solid creative image of that brand, but I was working for a poor idiot. So all the artworks came back warpspeed. Now people can watch them here or by private mail and all in this little community around this blog with their kind words makes me feel I don't have to give up for what happened (thanks Henna, Yann, Marino, Ursula, Holger, Alberto, Richard,Andrej and all the wonderfull others).
I'm honestly gratefull.

Thanks Really a Lot You All


Yours


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INGUINE MAH!GAZINE OUT NOW!!!

Dear Girls and Boys, Let me introduce you the Menu of the new new new 2008'S INGUINE MAH!GAZINE. This marvellous book published by Comma 22 contains lots of juicy and tasty delicacies from all over the world representing the breaking the waves universe of Underground illustrations and comics today. Why do I speak so incredibly nice about? Well, ya... They published me -Yahahahahahahaha- but not one time...Twice! In the beginning and at the end I open and close the Book.
Please, eat it, enjoy it and bite it untill the bones!!!
These the wicked contributors:Peter Kuper | Wostok | Stefano Zattera | Elettra Stamboulis &Gianluca Costantini | Claudio Morici & Armin Barducci | Marta Poggi &Riccardo Falcinelli |Emory Douglass | u_net | Felipe Cava & Laura Peréz | Squaz | Paper Resistance | Vittore Baroni | Max Andersson | Christian Del Monte & Angelo Mennillo |Boris Battaglia | Michele M. Serra | Leonardo Guardigli | RolandBruckner | Marta Fontolan | John Porcellino | Giovanni Barbieri |Aleksandar Zograf |Ben Katchor | Gary Panter | Emanuele |Clìo | Paolo Bacilieri |Daniele Brolli | Nino Terremoto | Marcel Ruijters | Paolo Parisi |Tuono Pettinato

Please take a look here down:
www.comma22.com
www.inguine.net

The last lie of Pinocchio

Dear Bubu and friends, something bad happened and still I don't know if that is positive or negative. In the latest months I was hooked up by a project with an industry. The industry wanted to dedicate me a personal collection and there were the conditions for that could happen easily. Right now conditions changed. Maybe because it had to happen like this, or I do not know, it was from some days I was getting a whiff of that smell a person understands something goes bad.
So today I made a few calls. It is very stupid, but as I expected it going in that way I was very calm and relaxed and I didn't say any bad. Treating people right when they know they should be treated as they deserve is too easy. Better a lave-taking veeery gentle, even kind. So here I leave an unfinished work it was part of that collection. Take care Pinocchio, take care, if you don't, anybody will for you. Some prefer to see - Life - as a dirty trace of shit left in the pants, I would say that if you don't want to be like someone living his or her life like that, it is much better to give the real value to things and people and creating human value where we are about to be. Hughs from the Monarchy of the fourth floor!