Daily notes about whatever I see, hear,read….instead of drawing
“I am eager for my boys and girls to exert themselves to do good and to grow nobly. What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I’m interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners.” All …
Carlo Cottarelli is an authoritative economist, with experiences in important institutions. In my opinion we could define him, with an oxymoron, a romantic enlightenment. In fact, for years he has been engaged in monitoring the Italian situation, studying the increasingly urgent adjustments to our unsustainable way of life. In this essay he highlights the two …
Other Hells: Carlo Cottarelli, All’Inferno E Ritorno, Feltrinelli, 2021 Read More »
… Everyone says: “It’s the plague, we’ve had the plague”. They very nearly want a medal. But what is the plague? It’s life, that it is… Albert Camus, La Peste, Giunti / Bompiani, May 2020. From the italian translation by Yasmina Elaouah.
…””Tutti dicono:”E’ la peste, abbiamo avuto la peste”. Poco ci manca che vogliono una medaglia. Ma cosa vuol dire la peste? E’ la vita, punto e basta.”” Albert Camus, La Peste, Giunti Editore Spa/Bompiani, ed.ne maggio 2020. Traduzione di Yasmina Melaouah.
I have an ancient passion for comics. And also a certain respect: it is not at all easy to write and draw them. Someone calls it the 9th art, a sequential art, an expression that I do not share sic et simpliciter. Comics are necessarily editorial products, they live on stilemes, iteration, seriality. In other …
