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'm Mister Wolf, I solve problems

Computer programs have it to defaul: you write, and then he corrects you all according to his discretion. Mette is why instead of why is corrects misspelled words, and replaces those who do not know. Here, it can happen that if you write "James Kirk" in a text, you find yourself writing a "James Cyrus" ...

But here we are talking about publishing the cartoon, so the figure editor (our protagonist) has a different role. More or less. Or rather, should have a different role, but I have some reasonable doubt that there really succeed. But first it's appropriate to make the point, so it is unclear who they are and what makes an editor.

Editor (called also the curator ) is an important figure, much more than you think outside dell'ambiante (And also inside, actually ...): is directing a comic book series, the one that 'assignments to the editor, make decisions, and do not answer the phone, ready to face any possible problem. If we were in a film editor is identical to our mr. Wolf Pulp Fiction "I'm mr. Wolf, I solve problems."

Our mr. Wolf does just that, to solve problems. Faces, find the solution, solve them. To take incazzature to fight when necessary, or delegate the roles where needed, to take credit when all things go well, and the blame when they go wrong (or the blame on others) . It 'paid to come up ulcer, beating his head against the wall, to speak out when necessary, paid to address the problems.

In a perfect world, the editor follows the series as if it were a daughter, sees them grow, and supervise their friendships as a stern father, by keeping cascamorto and ticks. It 's the real guardian of a series.

A good editor has written on the door of his office, laid on human blood (a designer), an old seafaring history of outstanding performance. This story explains what procedures must follow a sea captain who is on a moonless night, on a cargo with the load hook and the motor broke down during a storm, which pushes the boat against the rocky coast, with the lighthouse on the coast off the radio and in need of repair and the crew in a panic. What to do?

The answer is to avoid getting into a similar situation . Those who are able to follow the rules so simple?

One will say, but such problems can never occur during the processing of a comic book series. Oh, plenty, are always lurking, ready to ruin your day. Occasionally you may find that there is a gap of one month in a programming mistake to count the days (it happens, it happens), or designer does not respect the scenaggiatura (the "Interpretation") and you do not understand the sequence of events. Facing aspiring writers who say that this story is stolen from their subject, or see if that designer has copied some stickers from scratch, possibly before noticing the public. Or whether a designer has to be part of his work unknown and anonymous helper (never lie to your editor, if you have a helper you have to say without problems).
Then maybe a possibility that a designer cabin and soft puppet Pinocchio and Candlewick and to follow the scene of eater, and no longer gives signs of when, or who ill, or has to give birth prematurely (if it is a designer, it can happen) and for two months does not send tables, so his story should be postponed, and the continuity affanzùm that the writer had studied at the table. Or disappear from the face of the earth without giving signals, and without concluding his story serial (and continuity, etc.). Another (also an artist, have them / us to have problems ...) works hyper-fast, produces industrial quantities and prompt you to new pages of script in spite of having just handed over 300 pages that will be soon published between 5 months, because it know, has the mortgage on the villa in Monaco by pay, and someone has to tell him that maybe it can slow down (not ever, the designer will complain vigorously). Or you discover that a story in the General Custer has a wristwatch, or the Indians use a rotating barrel Gatling off-season, or the designer has designed a bullet that flies attached to the cartridge case, or a western saloon has shelves behind counter as an English pub of the '20s, the artist has hidden or encrypted messages on the posters, and all this must be discovered and corrected prior to publication, otherwise you feel like the figure of m *** that we do?
All this and much more, the impossible can happen and the imponderable at any time.

The cause of this has little importance. But if you experience some of the cases above, Mr. Wolf will find some solution, but it can work wonders (as if anyone can do it is because he has already ...): wrong ... has allowed such a thing happen. It was not alert. Has not budgeted. His ship had broken down, the wind pushing against the shore and was about to begin the night with no moon ... cul de sac, the French would say. impasse we say. And then it takes skill to put the pieces in the right places. Now let's

clear how many editors who have known in the world of comics are like mr. Wolf?

Try going to Lucca, when publishers bring their foreign editor, viewing patience with long lines of designers who offer their projects. Typically, these editors are all kind and polite, watch your designs, viewing the page and make you their compliments, but then you patiently explain why or wherefore serve him for what your product does not go very well. Provoking the ire of artists who are not used to feel criticize the short arms or big hands or eyes or all the same backgrounds and the lack of depth of field. Or just not used to having to do with a serious editor, that if you mess up drawing tells you clearly that "the first good" or "I like it" is not an acceptable justification. Editors who are able to understand even if you write, or see that you are incapable of writing a subject (or do not know what, happens, it happens), so do not start reading your "revolutionary screenplay written as those of Moore and Gaiman, the war between demons Japanese ska-punk and hip-hop underground "

Almost every evening, dinner in Lucca with colleagues, you happen to find yourself angry with colleagues, committed to complain that the editor Scotsman who has been viewing their pages, and how he done a thousand notes. And down to complain that this is not serious, as is offensive to them, for their professionalism, they have produced several hundred pages of popular comic ..

"Then," asks the reader curious about "who does not work so it is a bad editor?"
Maybe, but maybe not. Who says that James has the truth in hand? Maybe he too was wrong.

And if the subject of our places, our editor was now a figure of archaic, antediluvian and no longer needed? Retired or retired to private life. Something to today we can all easily do without? Why, for example, can handle everything perfectly and the writer, while writing his usual 11 to 11 stories designers furious.

There is a whole new school of thought that says that in today's publishing world has evolved to shape the editor, which now has different roles. In this new publishing his role is to sift through new talent, see their projects, choosing what to publish and what not to delegate to perpetrators and all the rest. A grant interviews to the press (in press comics? Okay, you can laugh) to remember their vital role in that project. To maintain friendships with celebrities, fans, the Nerd, the Mood and Rap. To be more skilled in dialectics.

Forgive me, I understand that the world evolves, but I still think and believe that we will still need to have mr. Wolf. Although it is true that even in the classical figure of the editor you have the figures emerging delegate everything to everyone (including faults) and pretend to be indispensable, this has created a whole new school of "editor" (quotation marks are obligatory) I believe that this major. Or take their role lightly, if there is a problem you can always order a designer to do 100 pages in 30 days, give or take.

The new editor mushrooming, following this new path unexplored: that of the editor that delegation. Not s'incazza. Living peacefully, that does not solve the problems facing them because he (was not my fault, un'uragano, floods, locusts! ") But there is the same with very many, too many thing to do : counting fingers, go to fairs, dinners introfularsi Bonelli, delegate all the work of editing a study of Hong Kong, writing introductions, press conferences on comics, or write on the forums to deny the obvious when someone dares to point out a Error in this volume, published in translation without checking. A reply spades or hearts when you talk about when you look at the finger pointing at the moon.

O to correct James Kirk James Cyrus.

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A red circle planted in the heart ...

But as the covers were beautiful series Cerchiorosso?

Many do not have certainly never even heard of, and for two good reasons. No problem, Jack now says.

The first reason is that all this was done quite some 'time ago. The number one was released in October of 1978, do you calculate how many years until today. The second reason is that it was a series that lasted very little, stopping after 38 numbers in early 1982. In this period went through a change of format and three changes of graphics, a sign that sales were not as they would wish.

Cerchiorosso was a brave attempt to bring the adventure novels on sale, alongside other popular series such as gender, yellow Mondadori Urania (science fiction) and Secret (intelligence). Same size, and color eye-catching, red. And to cover the great Carlo Jacono, who already signed and Yellow Top Secret. But ...

Already, there is one though. Because the reason I have seen this popular series of booklets is he, Carlo Jacono. Since then a Young omnivorous devourer of Urania, also occasionally ogle the covers of twin necklaces, and had learned to recognize his illustrations, by their characteristic structure which he characterized both the yellow (its already popular) than on Secret (little brother, in need of treatment). My favorite Italian illustrator at the time was already the largest Aldo Di Gennaro, known in the Corriere dei Ragazzi and occasionally I saw on the covers of books from library.

But it was love at first sight, this time, when I saw that the submarine in the ice ... in an appendix of Urania, in the advertising end number. Urania took in a few markets, in subsequent years. Already, in 1978 had not yet begun to devour FS. The shrine visit it from time to time, looking only in the field of comics and magazines in those models. So Cerchiorosso was born and died in my absolute ignorance.

So many years passed before the benches of the flea markets I could recover some of those numbers. And I could see those beautiful pictures, without having to wait four years to finish the series - and it did not conclude at all, actually, since I still have a few dozen missing numbers.

The covers, I said. Not only close-ups of faces or arms, but illustrations intact, even when the drawings were made with pencil and brush. E. .. Well, how do I explain the feeling? Years of study of art history books on Giulio Carlo Argan taught me that what is perhaps not the right method to describe and explain the concept of "beautiful".

Here, with everything I saw and learned to appreciate until now, I can say that as a benchmark between the designs seen on popular publications, the cover for Carlo Jacono Cerchiorosso were certainly among the best.

Seeing is believing.

But the books as they were?

I have no idea. I read only "Esther, Ruth and Jennifer, a number that published a book which was made into a very nice film with Roger Moore Jennifer alarm platform "(or was the adaptation of the film? Boh), which amused me a lot. Other

still stationed in their ranks, in a box. I always told myself that one day I would have read. "When I have time" . But then I did not know that life is what happens to you while you're waiting around for something to happen.

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Hunter lost treasures

All we keep old memories, old maps, objects, and other amenities. Sometimes conserving in unknown places, others again and have after years of neglect. Having an old library where certain books stationed for years, there is one area almost hidden counts where some school books or books of the time. So in the days s courses comes out (as it was out occasionally at other times) an old diary of the second or third higher. And because the materials are very easy to remember, remained untouched and the diary, I began to do what I wanted, having fun doing what I could in the lessons. Here you go.

Only a small selection irresponsibly drawn at the time on a card with a green background -like graph paper , with signs of graphite beyond the control of the tire, and thankfully fixed with spray hair, to make - If not eternal - at least " durable "

Here. And while I realize that today the world of the popular comic strip has more workers who need to know the designers that perspective, I wonder what they would say looking at these pictures of the boys of 17 years who wish to enter the world of comics, and they do still Smudge with fingers or the characters with big eyes. I never told them as designed for their age.

But ultimately, given the subject, it is easy to think "But why not designed for football players and naked women?"

Yeah, good question ...

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Lucca, you still remember ...

year Luccacomics nothing. Commitments, skip ' apartment, no meeting planned work that step. And the thing I regret, sure. Sorry first not be there, because I was already a fixture of 5 years for not see old friends and make new ones, not being able to roam the stalls as a visitor any, addocchiando material interesting and studying how they could make you do a discount.

But above all I regret not being able to be in selfarea to promote the new number of Anjce , forcing Miriam have to do everything alone. So no picture for the usual, no plan for Mimmo, no plan for Mr. Alfonso. No meetings with readers, who remember better and better every year, by dint see them again each time you follow the first few times you saw Bonelli stand now, you are to find something in that line breaks precious. And the sun, for better or worse has always accompanied least one day last year weekend Lucca. Then, almost like a sms of fate, it was raining Monday.

Lucca course was too, but everything has its downsides: to lose most of the time to move from one pavilion to another, crossing cosplay loads of accessories, backpack or boys who do not look around them while running. The current location, with the fair around the city, it is preferable to the old one, where it was compressed in a confined space and where we always ate sandwiches in the same place, here you can breathe, but if you appointments and commitments in different places in different halls in two adjacent squares, and maybe at that time the civil defense people are doing out of the shed because the publishers crowds for Ratman ... Well, in this case is decidedly uncomfortable.

And then there are the things that I will not see, which I do not miss, like the infamous bronze faces of the "usual suspects" in their stand that if they pull it, or the usual "experts" who sneak everywhere.

conclude with a friendly recommendation. If you find yourself queuing up at a booth to receive a drawing or a print, do not EVER bring back a big red marker tip, and if by chance you have even ignored if someone wonders if there you have it (you says the sin but not the sinner, remember). you risk big.

And then ... I know it may seem like the speech of the fox and the grapes, but perhaps maybe, have you ever seen ... it could rain!

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Preview ...

Or doing a preview. Below are the first three pages of the last episode of Anjce .

explaining to those who do not know, what it is. It 's a self-produced project you do with two friends, Miriam Blasich and Luke Vergerio . Same character, each writes and draws an episode once a year, to be ready to 'appointment Lucca with a new number. 48 pages in black and white, color cover.

Each time is a challenge, to write and draw a story that comes from within, you feel him, and that is also a good story (hopefully), that people remember after reading it. Trying to be modest. Of course, you will not be the comic will go down in history, but at least it's something you enjoy doing, for you and your fun.

Every year is a company that gives you the idea to reach the starting point for the final story. The ideas are many , rotate, change, change and evolve, and eventually you think that might work in particular. You concentrate on that, I'll study the structure, we begin to reason and visualize in your mind: storyboard, phrases, words, and you say you're done.

Then, bastard as a practical joke, one day, while you're doing everything else, another idea comes into your head suddenly. And you thought with the fateful question from which all ideas are born " And what would happen if ...". Then it's over. Throw all that you had studied up to that point, because the new history is there ready, start, progress and end, with all the things you want to say at that moment, we are all right.

Then it is just to draw and put the lyrics. One thing at the bottom of automatic because now you have in mind what will come out, it remains only to determine how and when to do it, shaping and polishing the rest of the corners. Using all your 13 pages. I leave

guess what the "What would happen if ..." which started the whole idea. Perhaps from the preview of course, but maybe not. But that's the beauty of previews: they should not say too much ...

Somebody might wonder what happened to the idea gets discarded, what you'll study until a few days earlier. Remains on paper, and nothing forbids you to reuse the first or later, somewhere. Sooner or later. The first of the series, six years ago, was not the first story I wrote by myself, to say I was ilv. Already on a few occasions I had done something. But it was the first to have a certain distribution, and restore the note "text and drawings by GP. Sniff, tear, emotion, amarcord ...

And then, as it continues? Well, this is just a preview, I said at the beginning ... Typefaces

the first four, self in just the next two. Curious, just as certain smaller publishers with certain types of production (but facendosela ripped off). The sixth was completed in recent days, and will be available Luccacomics & Games in Selfarea , stand Anjce . For those who do not will be ... enough to apply by writing to info@anjce.it, or visit the website , perhaps even leaving a message in the guestbook.

And then everything starts again as usual, to infinity and beyond ...

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How many pages from here to eternity? Still Crazy After All That

Every so often, not too often yield to an old habit, I forget my pessimism of default on the craft of comics, and try to return a player. A simple reader. Just to be clear as to what I was some twenty years ago.

Yeah, we want to be a player? I see myself as a child, with a number of Corriere dei Ragazzi in hand. Okay, not really the child, adolescent. A castaway on a boat lands on an island in the South Seas. Scene from Lost , palm trees and endless beaches. At that moment I was really with him on the beach. And then at any other time, I followed him to every page. At 6 pages per week (as in previous years to rrivava also to 2 pages per week). The result? "A suivre " or "Continue" ... seven days, same time, same channel. Then the same newspapers, the same newspaper. What cool.

Years later I see the same newspaper. The beach is beautiful, the palm trees are 4, the 'setting of Lost no guesses. Oh well, the memory was better.

Yeah, but that was before. Before begin drawing with the method, before focus to do it in a coherent and continuous . Before you even think of making it come away from your job.

Before you start to grind tens of pages per month, curandotele as if they were your pets. Before you learn how difficult reaching the final, in which everything must be answered, and each extra page or a page is too less to explain. When you learn the methods that use smart writers, the ones that allow you to get to the last page and everything goes fine, no rush. Today all this

entered my blood now. I recognize eye fixes, editorial interventions, the dead spots of the stories, I can not short to avoid testing the comics that I read with a critical eye. And if I see a stingy I grimaced. If an 'inking is completely ineffective on the face is the smile Joker. If the designer has copied photographs, well, it really is too obvious (though until recently drew in different ways). If there is a background, if a prospect has all of his personal rules unknown to us mortals, in short, everything that I ruin the pleasure of reading. But then life is not just for Milton Caniff , comics like everything else in the world evolve, so I'm keeping the complaints in the drawing, with some effort I can not recall the artist who supercritical c 'is in me, and I read a cartoon in one breath.

Or rather, I try. Why at this point I struggle with a typical habit circulating today in comics, whether they are detectives, mice and ducks or superheroes in tights.
dilation. Many things I agree, some narrative tricks too, but a history of stretch, was for 20, 100 or 300 pages, not the straps.

Example: Guy walks into a room, greeting, asks how it goes to the landlord. Amena conversation and moving slowly coming to the door of the first room. A page and a half in which nothing happened. It was not said anything relevant to the story. But I read two pages in the meantime. I tell myself that I'm wrong, that my mind has deceived me, the story may not be so expanded. Then go back and look with the method. Soundings page. Guy comes in and plays a sticker on the door. Two vignette that arrives Caio preparing to open the door. Vignette three opens, and gets a look of surprise. Four, we see the host and master of the house that they said goodbye. Or rather, the newcomer who asks a question of no importance. The landlord, Tom, answered in five. In six Caius enters smiling reply.

You wonder why. We can not answer that question definitely be a venial sin: "They pay me to page, and I dilate this story so far as I gain more." No, basically I realize that churn out a good idea every week or every month can be tiring (though a reasonable doubt remains, of course). I realized that seeing how the stories of Startrek on television became more and more verbose, and ending with the endless chatter between Janeway and Seven of Nine in Voyager ( noooiaaaaaaa ). Where in Startrek The Next Generation the writers had invented (or only applies to) the story editing, weaving in an episode that is the more minor events which by themselves would not be sufficient to hold an episode. But this had happened years before ... other writers, more textures and themes to draw from.

Perhaps the authors feel that in the comics the influence of Graphic Novel American? The romanzoni 300-page comic book that had so much success? Well, no, to the length aprte those made sense so long, there was so much to tell.

Or the problem is bigger and covers all the literature in general? Maybe that d Ilatia is not just a problem of comics?

Take a hardcover book of 500 pages. One at random, Italian or foreign. He may have within it a scene like this:

" Pablo put his hand on the handle of brass-colored ash blond, brown smoke, forged by the masters of Senegovia Atlantic in 1918, at the end of the great World War, resistance is felt the touch of his fingers long and pale, covered with sparse hair . Exerted a slight pressure above method and that object at that moment seemed so strange and obscure. Increased the pressure feeling it give way, and he took a breath continuing to press until you hear a sound dry and penetrating that hurt the ears, almost breaking that eternal moment of silence when it was penetrated by a few minutes. He pushed again, and the door opened, creaking imperceptibly as a rebel trying to support one last attack, or resist the charge of the 600 (...)."

Do not look for it around, I invented now. More than ten lines of text (though I think once the publishers to pay the amount of words) to say nothing about anything, except that the potagonista Oung the fingers, pale and hairy (trouble if the reader does not discover this particular be careful!). Literature? Bho.

course. This makes it easier to write a novel and get to 700 pages. But where Tolkien 500 pages employed to describe the battle of the ditch Elm , now you can find written, "They left at dawn for the battle, and returned in the evening, winners." So what's in this 900-page? Here's what I think when I read about young people entering who think a trilogy ...

O comics with people knocking at the door ...

Okay, that's just because every time I have to write a comic myself, I fight with the storyboard to be able to do everything at the right time. E 'in these moments that I realize how difficult it is to be a writer .

Page to Anjce # 6, forthcoming.

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years ... We are all missing

What follows is a piece recovered from Facebook, where I wrote last January, when my birthday. I came back to the days scorsai , as I faced the same argument of the piece with a friend (useless speech, everyone was on her, alas, how to lose 20 more minutes to no avail). But the party is sull'imprinting damn true, I tried it on my skin ...

How many good things can happen, being born in the cold January of 1964?

Now, after a certain number of years, I try to look back.
When the man arrives on the moon in 1969, five years and I'm too young to remember anything. Or having seen the film 2001 A Space Odyssey. Too bad ...
But I have 8 years in 1972, when I find the cartoons Messenger boys, and I'll have 12 in 1976, when degenerate into something grammatically unreadable ( Corrier Boy, ARGH). A good imprint on a young mind has its own importance? Today, in hindsight I would say yes.

I have 10 years in 1974, when I find the classic Walt Disney on the newsstands, with the first volume of reprints Paperinik, which includes investment half of the precious gift from my sister Ornella (1000 pounds) . Same age as when my father and my brother gives me a "surprise bag" of those who were in the news-stands, formed by various publishers yields sold off for cheap. In ours we'll find a comic book Buck Danny of Charlier - Hubinon . Only years later plugged it into the name of one of the authors with that of the gentleman who wrote in the Corriere Blueberry small ... one of the many newspaper comics that were in all newsagents. Yes, it seems very good imprint for infants and children.

And find the magazine Orient Express to 20 years, where I devoured the first two years Metal Hurlant . And 24 years to take the first issue of the Fantastic 4 Star Comics when Italy Marvel / Panini did not yet exist. Read the first Urania to 18 years, and the trilogy Isaac Asimov shortly thereafter. Starting to get interested reading, and not stopping but more.

At 13 I can see the Star Wars movies. Need I say more? A 17 see Raiders of the Lost and Heavy Metal . 18 And when I see Blade Runner (and the world will never be the same) and ET (and barely found a seat in the cinema). And when my city will be only one film, as the Teatro Verdi remained closed for restoration in those conditions for years failed to Ulysses from Ithaca, I can still see all the unmissable film of science fiction series B of the '80s. To know StarTrek when it was still called "Destination Cosmos", in 16 years. A good imprinting adolescent, I guess.

And what about TV? UFO to 8 years in the TV boys, to 17 on Saturday, after a 'test pattern that endless characterized the lack of programming , at a time when some television executive had definitely ruled "Why but do you want to watch TV in the afternoon, we're serious, "and then the end of the newscast of 13.30 to 17 had the afternoon free to count on your thumbs and do nothing (to count the toes, for example). So in times like The Orion spaceship a year later, Space 1999 and 12 years Doctor Who with Tom Baker , and then Grendizer to 14 Gundam ( My friends are Peter Rei, commander of the robot ... ) shortly thereafter, and Conan and Lupin III and Grand the Prix champion . And yet to see Nausicaa Valley Wind a Christmas of that time there, even when I had to learn who he was Miyazaki. When those times had not yet caught on fitness programs, gossip and large number of brothers. And then Fury , Happy Days , Zorro , A man in the house , George and Mildred , Hawaii 5.0 and Mission Impossible , Inspector Derrick and Lieutenant Colombo . And then
and endless TV private ... TV commercial when the definition did not exist. I'll have 17 when Channel 5 will, and already the temperature was increased from the TV a bit '. Except for a nap ... nothing Smurfs and Criss Angel, I was already over. But I witness to the years of lead and do the second media (Latin required , porcum canem ).

I am proud to have seen Niki Lauda won with Ferrari at the age of 11 and 13 years, infinitely grateful for having followed the whole dish Gilles Villeneuve at the right time. Or having visited Italy to Panatta - Barazzutti - Bertolucci - Zugarelli win the Davis Cup Pinochet's Chile deserted by the great tennis. When, to be clear, I did not understand one iota of the rules of tennis.
And Paolo Rossi and Spain's world of 18 years. And before Peter and Marcello Fiasconaro Mennea .

Without the military 20 years and have seen Dune and Ghostbuster in cinemas Pordenone, have lent the book to the guards smontanti and then discuss in front of a pizza "But the book is best the film ..." and have divided the number of Mickey Mouse with the first part of " Uncle Scrooge and adventure in Formula 1 (Pezzin and of Cavazzano) with all the barracks, and find that a number of Mickey Mouse (that time, eh?) could be read by 200 people and return to hand untouched, while a number of horn or Jacula lost in pages and cover a few hours ... And watch the tragedy on the stage of ' Eisel small television in the switchboard, filled with people were stunned by what he saw. And the snow of the century, and nights with no moon and no lights in the empty streets of the barracks. And having experienced for the first time in my life, the absolute silence around me ... in total darkness.

And there would be told things. Of Music, the first 33 laps of Vinyl ( Glass Houses of Billy Joel ) got 18 years, or last (007 Licence to Kill of Michael Kamen ) at 25, one week before the Standa empty the vinyl section in favor of the CD. Be passed through countless tools HiFi : the recorder Jealous of his grandfather to record the initials of the series, from 14 years onwards. At the first and only Walkman to 26. And then the 'Ipod tarot to 44 (with quick-charging battery that sis, but then was tarot, I know ...). Having seen the VHS boom when not distinguish it from the Video and the 2000 Betamax , waiting to see which of them would have survived .
And having heard of the Laser Disc, and then rapidly (too fast) evolution of the DVD, Blue Ray el ' HD.
And the cousin who was taking the new summer revolutionary thing called a computer, the ZX Spectrum , with programs for audio cassettes (20 minutes to load Space Invader, and it seemed to me very fast ...). And the first PC (brother) to 28 years. 386, then 486, then Pentium, and Pentium 2. And the games polygons, those slow, slow. And the first site visited (and who remembers?) With the connection at 56 k. When you download a small picture called for endless minutes . Before wikipedia and Youtube, when I used Altavista and you seemed to find everything. Before
facebook and mobile phones, and when you wanted someone calling on the phone. And if there was no patience ... would call another day. After all that fast went? And you had to remind you birthdays.

And when you start to see the girls differently. When she gives you her phone number and you have to talk with her, and ask you the pass, and hope we have made a good impression.

And now? The years continue to pass the pepper in his hair to grow, the technology evolve, the TV to degenerate, the comic book to sell less, and the friends they settle, their children growing up, and you that while you look in the mirror every morning you ask yourself how did he go so fast all that time. "I'll have 36 years in 2000, you should get there before!" you said laughing, long time ago.
and think about that girl a few weeks ago I asked you how old you were curious. I see you smiling to answer a quiz for her unsurpassed . "Do a little 'accounts: I saw Star Wars at the cinema ..."

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Flickr and Getty

Flickr is a web camera in the early days disdain. I felt unattractive. Now that I found out and sailing in the community flickeriani, I can not do without. Upload my photos, create sets and add my photos to a wide variety of photographic groups. And exploration. There are some real trend on flickr and amazingly talented photographers. Flickr can also be as a showcase to present to various types of people who do the work (without having to do a site specifically). But on flickr you can also sell and in fact it was a pleasure to discover that the prestigious Getty Images goes fishing pictures more interesting "commercially" and sells on his website. Fantastic! In fact, posting some photos on a specific group, editors have chosen some of my Flickr pictures that have gone to increase the stock of Getty!

Not bad! Keep working!

© 2010 Elena Fantini

Motivational Letter To A Depressed Friend

Figure

Yeah. These days, looking around in the sea in the world of comics in Italy, seem to see some of the constants' everywhere. Look, look, think, and you realize that the world of minor publishers often lack of important figures. Consider perhaps superfluous, unnecessary, that you can do without when it comes to limit expenses. A salary less. Money saved, so the comic book comes out well anyway. " Let's not let them disappear in 'indifference .

And we begin with a very special figure. Yes, we speak of because editor, this unknown.

"Who is it, man?" What? Why would anyone would miss it? " application, the reasonable reader.

Well, let's see. A self-respecting editor, to begin working in a drawing, for example. With a phone maybe. Here's the first problem: if there is no editor, if we can do without him, what the hell is an editorial? You can do without, of course. And his phone.

But (of course) who is it? What exactly does? How does it fit in a process editorial that leads to create a popular comic strip?

We try to answer. In a comic, there must be a writer . Which is often the subject. Then there is the designer. And letterer. And the publisher and printer, and distributor , and newsagent, and so on. The

writer writes the script . It goes to the artist. In a popular comic strip, monthly or so, find themselves working together most designers. A cartoon drawing in 100 pages a month (although some did), in theory even in three months (even if someone is proud of it), and if a number has to come out every month, meet to work on the same days at least 4 or 5 designers. Sending the tables designed, and are paid accordingly.

Here, those who send them? By mail or in digital mode? To someone who should be taken against the production, dates, number of days before the deadline. That once received by mail sent to the letterer , catering and put the lyrics. Which shall be read and checked. And once the re-read the story several times, looking for inconsistencies and errors. "One moment," he interrupts the watchful attentive reader, "But that's what makes him writer! "Yeah, now he thinks it. And he always takes into account the time, all the while writing stories for 3 3 designs that bring a hurry.

is that our figure is missing out. P hy this part of the work should be him doing it, our editor is missing. One who might be willing to spend the whole day to examine the literary history, to check if everything is clear and in place. All while answering the phone ringing.

you know how many times it happens that an author builds a story, you face all the questions and give answers, and then a Once you start to forget to write them all ? You forgot to mention or give a solution, believing that everything is clear? Why is absolutely convinced of her date, know why they had thought about so much, that he invented a perfect solution?

Example: The editor read the complete story, and finally says, "But this misses the motive of the crime." The writer says that there is, the cop says so clearly. But then he goes to check and see that ... at the last moment he changed a dialogue, and without noticing has taken important clue. But more will become aware potersene easier than I can someone who read that story for the first time. The reason why a cartoon (but also applies to the novels) should always reread several times by several people (old rule Bonelli ). Otherwise the forum will be filled with readers who enjoy find errors and inconsistencies . Here, the editor is the first critical eye. But then, to think is not good. There may very well think the writer , while simultaneously writes 4 stories for 4 designers busy. Or read it (without commitment, but hurry, please) to friends, relatives, his girlfriend, or Baker's fumettofilo .

Our editor should also keep an eye on the drawings. Assuming it has a good working knowledge of comics, will find that a designer is "pulling out" (they do, they do, the designers are human beings, with all faults and qualities that this entails), or using a valid and anonymous aide for backgrounds. Or inexplicably delayed deliveries. And then the necessary changes to our editor detective, investigates and informs, because this could affect the quality of work. An artist falls ill and can not draw for three weeks? And his story is at risk of not ending time? Who makes measures, investigate who else might continue the story, if it was not really possible to postpone ? Which is held every schemini and dates on a sign on the wall?

Yeah. But this can also do the writer in his free time that allows the work to write 5 stories for 5 designers involved, so what good is the editor? Let

. to acquire and prepare designs for print, perhaps? Well, of course, somebody has to think, no? Or to receive shipments of the designers, to photocopy or scan everything. "You do not think the designers?" Calls the inclined reader. Oh, yes, it must also thwart the designs because are ready for printing. Where once it was not their task. Either we think our dear writer, in his spare time that leaves the difficulty writing with 6 stories for demanding designers 6.

And if the artist has copied from other comics? Modestly or entirely intentional ? Who ever let him touch the cazzettone a must? Always the writer

, breaks for meals that can win while writing stories for 7 7 designers in a panic.

Okay, but then who meets the young designers and willing to make calls and send their drawings to the young and aspiring writers who send their revolutionary logorrheic and trilogies? Those who read and watch everything, to be fair to them? In order to encourage an informed opinion of them to give themselves to the noble art of horseracing, or others to insist because something good, though still immature, is it?

"I know, I know!" said the reader easy-going, "We think the WRITER!"

Damn. You can not really hide anything. Already, in the end can really think of him as he writes damn 8 stories for 8 damn designers in a hurry.

Well, then yes. So I really do not need (an employee salary less). Just as it is a drawing (a rent less). The editors may well become the home of writer , spaces that carves out writing stories for 9 complicated 9 workaholic designers, with the money they earn and can afford to pay for the phone whenever he called the designer who moved to Iceland.

Well, now maybe the next time a reader complains that a writer is losing shots, or who no longer writes a time, take 5 minutes to think and reason above, and then gives the answer himself. If not then there is the problem, it means that I only lost 20 minutes to write a post that is perhaps unnecessary, God bless. Anzichenò.

Yes, yes, as a very old advertisement said, "It looks easy!"

Easy, right?

PS: Well, after all this (and more) could do it another figure missing, the editor . But it seems he may well do without. But we will see in another post.

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Sometimes even the phlegm from classic to designer, what I do for all the doodles, that answers all the questions, who has the patience to listen to someone more nerd than he (yes, they exist), every now and then relents. And the artist receives from her gut upside a subtle thought, a whispering voice that whispers in your ear a delicate little word: "Send him affanzùm."

But what ever may trigger a reaction in such great personage well as for our dear designer?

Oh, many things, but no more than the others.

Tizio Caio, an aspiring artist in the grass, Gatton crawl approaching the designer polite. She asks him if he wants to look at his drawings, and maybe give you some advice . The artist welcomes clean-cut, and looks. Look at those drawings, turn the pages, and there is a problem:

design is different from person to person. So maybe I do not like the style but who cares - after not even like the style of some of Marvel comics. So can not give an opinion on style, but on the whole. Because maybe that style will evolve spontaneously into something extraordinary, and you do not know. So, unless extreme circumstances with no hope (yes, there are those) who are you to point out defects of the classic topical: hands too big, scale bust etc., or watch the story. If you work environment for some time, if you drew more than a thousand pages, if you continued to be critical of yourself, you'll see for sure. Our designer friendly look at the page and note that the narration does not work. Bobo is the hero in an apartment on the phone in a cartoon, and soon after was in a car, and then somewhere else. The designer

patient notes this error, explaining that some leaps in time are not used, because they create confusion, which in these cases also helps give the reader the space action. And then for example would also draw the car along the road. Or the young

asordiente overlapping vignettes with identical shots, without using reverse. The budding designer listens rapt, agrees with a gesture of the head, and then, at the climax draws his supreme bullshit. The word that destroys all that there was complicity nall'aria until then.

says, "But I like it."

point. The final answer, one that does not allow replies. What the designer says now irrevocably altered one thing that goes something like "I do not mind that advice you gave me, nor any other you can give me, to tell the truth, because I have already learned . "

Back in my body and I resume talking about me, I explained the concept now. When it happens me, my answer is always the same: "Then why seek advice?".

you make an effort to make Mr. Spock, to argue with logic and cut the hairs, and the other side would you rather have a ' Horta rather than with the young man that you are smiling face. But you were trying to do no more or less the same thing as the art teacher had done with you in your school years, when I had seen the Smudge with fingers on graphite. I patiently explained that it 1) you could not make a uniform surface larger and 2) you could not make that effect with the ink. The reason over irrationality. Damn. It 's true. Why not I arrived there alone? And run for cover.

The editor notes that Jonathan refer you shoot with his right hand into a vignette and the other with the left? Heck, it's true, I have to adjust. Your car takes a left and you're not in London: error, I have to adjust. You have seven fingers drawn to a man: But how the hell did I do?

Here, when you do this job you need to know that there are people you can trust that you will point out the errors, so that you can correct them. NOT to tell you that you are stupid.

Years ago, before they came all now retired, went back to my school to say goodbye to my old teachers. And in the middle of a lesson I see my art teacher from life to approach a guy and make him notice that he was making a mistake, as he had done with me and other willing students in its time.

The student response this time was "But I like it."

Here's my little prayer: if one day you happen to see me absorbed after a feast to draw and I want to ask for advice (but I'm sure that goes for all my colleagues), I ask you: when I gave Council specifically requested , do not respond, "But I like it." Otherwise, sooner or later I'll end up doing a bang ...

Bum. Crash. Zoom.

Gulp!

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Carpe Diem


The Selfarea is one of the best initiatives of recent years about the comics convention. Established in Luccacomics ( & Games ) three years ago, on a proposal and management of the comic Andrea Pazienza Center provides a space available of self-produced at a lower price than that of Exhibitors normal, all within an exhibition of great interest as Lucca.

on this experience sooner or later I'll write a piece, but when I focus on a detail of the last edition (November 2009). Is organized each year in the selfarea initiative that would involve groups present. This time it was asked to compose a cartoon of a story in continued (more or less, then everyone invents his own and violates the rules, as taught Moebius). Purpose had been made a space in the warehouse, where a tripod and white cards, along with black acrylic paint and brushes, waiting to be used by young artists.

In three days of the fair I was always in a hurry. At the booth of Anjce we'd change with Miriam when possible, and every so often one of the boys of the staff asked us if we wanted to make a design well us, and whenever I have time maybe the stand was already occupied, where at other times the time I was missing altogether.

And then comes Sunday night. People are starting to sbaraccare, they make a decision, gather the autoproductions and come off the posters, and there's a big pit of people and boxes. And when I stop by to look at the drawings, and I begin to think it is a shame not to be able to join. The drawings attached to the wall are really beautiful, different from each other, a thousand different styles, from abstract to photo, from the funny to the Cubist, a feast for the eyes

But ...

But now the stand is empty. Yes, there is a large pit, but if you like ... yes, but then I am bringing that idea? It is, I decide to take those few minutes to make the design promised. "More and sought to continue ..." I suggest a young staff, apparently satisfied that in the end I also participate.

In seconds you do come to mind? In this case, a simple extrapolation "comic story - the beginning - the progress - the final." Here, I write the end. And do it quickly (I have a pencil to sketch, I will manage). The brush is medium, but is saturated with color until the middle of the neck, no one should have thought to clean it after use, or simply has been placed inside the jar of water (half a plastic bottle cut in half) for too long. Benvenuto Cellini managed to make it look like a titanic merger of the statue of Perseus in fundamental text Life ( essential "for those who studied art history, of course), I do not I'll try not to describe those 10 minutes, with everyone you pass by carrying something.

And then in the end it was fun. And my idea to end it was not bad.

The picture I did in the opening few minutes after the drawing, which is still on the stand, just before they were to remove everything, and being able to aprofittare a rare moment when there was no crowd. The top one is the last, my, of course, the last one.

is one of the reasons why designers sometimes start a blog: to tell similar stories and show these moments, which otherwise would be lost .

Since then, every so often happens to me, especially the mind expect a light to change or queuing at the post office (or when someone tries to convince me with his skillful dialectic gestalt is better than mine), well in similar cases happens that my mind climbs in elliptical virtuosity and colorful abstractions, and suddenly decides to pull the fundamental questions. And suddenly you get the urge to find answers to questions like "Why do we do?", "What happened to have made the designs made in selfarea?" or "What the hell I put as the head of the blog?".

Then the light turns green, here comes your turn to row in the mail and the phone rings scassamaroni persuader, and your cycles to resume their normal thought pattern analog and relaxing.

And when you find the header for the blog, and think that after all is not so important to know why you do what you do, you still have a question that sought to answer: what have made the designs of selfarea? Someone will make a publication ? Someone has photographed and put on-line ? Some visitors to the selfarea paused to watch?

Colorful abstractions and elliptical virtuosity, precisely ...

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I wanted to be Stanley Kubrick ... Every now and then resurface

was a bit 'that I wanted to post it somewhere, but outside of my pc has never been possible. I could put it on Facebook, but the vision was restricted to visitors. Youtube? Too broad. And then I find that blogs can also make movies.

Okay, so let's start with this. April 2010, as if I were to report, here is the tour of Naples Comicon. Recommended vision in the dark room, because the light in the movie is really low.

Have fun ...

What Is A Pinky Finger

Yeah, sometimes you want to go to Google, enter your name, and discover that nothing has changed. What the heck, not Alex Raymond are after all, is plain to see always the same link. The comic characters are not gossip, I 'Rockstar ("normal" I mean), and still have more pages devoted to them by Mr Rossi, Valentino excluded ...

The first link back to Wikipedia , who discovered a page There is a bit 'of years ago, when I rang the phone. "Tell me a bit, but you've opened that page on wikipedia, right?" I demand my nephew Fred, who discovered it. I fall from the clouds, deny, and then run to read and discover that some pious soul put me and other designers with enough information correct. Yes, I confess that I "adjusted" a few things in his voice, just for the sake of accuracy. As I adjusted a couple of links on the page of the designers books by Jonathan Steele , absent in origin. And my contribution to the Wikipedia end there.

I remember when he discovered the entry dedicated to me, the page was under observation as someone had objected to his presence. Even my nephew intervened on behalf of myself and my comics in general (I've never thanked enough Fred?), And after a year the dispute disappeared. And after 10 lines of this note the author realizes that in fact it was he wanted to talk in the wikipedia post, but one thing leads to, you know.

However, one of the entries in the first page shows a interview that made me and a friend of Rome to his friend Carlo Recagno , now back in 2006, for the online magazine Borderlands . Charles still remembers happily as "The second time m'intervistarono.

Well, for the curious and fetishists comics (there exist), a reading is recommended, although Charles did not reveal any scoop on Martin Mystere.

The tenth item in the Google search for my name, port Lambiek.com . And this is a surprise, given that 1) the database is international designers and immense, and especially 2) somehow managed to find a cartoon appeared only on the Italian fanzine of Startrek!

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Designers are people, "strange" ...

How many times I've read stories drawn from time and realize that Jonathan Steele fired holding the gun with his left? Is coupled with all the times that I noticed at the desk, and being still in time I could cancel without any mercy careless mistake. Well, if sometimes a collector of original pencils felt a cold shiver down my back and went to make sure that the boards would not lose its precious graphite, well, now you know who caused that brief moment of panic.

The blame is always our usual habit - probably derived from the comic book artist Jack Lemmon in "How to Murder Your Wife" - to copy ourselves, at least on certain occasions. Of course, there is no doubt that a good designer needs to know to draw a human figure from head to toe, well-proportioned, with a good balance, in a position consistent with what the story requires, and possibly winning. Hogarth lessons on the human figure once you learn you do not leave, and although sometimes you escape to a pose Tarzan, most of the time helps you get by in difficult situations (to draw, what they understood?).

But sometimes, just sometimes, in some detail is good, useful and highly recommended to copy something. Use it when you're dealing with an object, a plane, a car or a gun. When you have a car you have to draw the right person at the wheel, with his back to the right place, his arms outstretched but not too much, the seat that distance and so on. And if you shoot someone with a gun you have to do them by hand, and if the hand is in the foreground, and you see all the knuckles (two fingers, 5 fingers, always visible from at least 4 shot), and must be the right length, then there must be the arm and shoulder, and a jacket that falls from the shoulder, and you can not use action figure because those are the rotating shoulder, like Grendizer, so to speak, and draw Grendizer firing in a realistic cartoon is not ideal.

So take the gun. Imitation of course. The gun, not the hand. With his left hand, of course, because you have a pencil in his right hand. And you miss it, damn it, we do not think, drawings and then escapes and if you just hope that someone knows that there are people ambidextrous, and it is therefore quite possible that they could be among the actors in a cartoon.

Otherwise, if you are aware of the problem and want to avoid it, then you geniuses. To take a picture. If you have a volunteer you're done, otherwise, if you're Alec Ross (who has many friends willing), then you have to do it alone. You put yourself in laying up the camera, shots, and watch the result. Of course, on digital, we need the result immediately.

Too close. Too far. Too dark. Who cares if you have a long beard and disheveled or six you can glimpse the bald? Much is required of you. How

the title of my post? Strange people? Exactly ...

This goes back a few weeks ago. And I do not know if one day someone will find where is the sticker never looked so good.

Now do not ask me where to find sources of inspiration ...

Small note: I changed the settings to enter comments, can now do so even those not registered to Google. I only ask a favor, Firmat in the message, because you put all the settings as anonymous. Thank you for your courtesy, drive slowly and do not be violent ...

Traditional German Ring

There once was a fax ...

Collectors with original drawings, pages of script and all the sketches that were used at the time, are stacked to one side, beautiful vertical. Someone with the tag that marked what it contained. Others without, because the content changes depending on how much stuff I had to stow away. Carcare open to something firm. Pull out all those pages, browse for that design in particular ... no, too demanding. So

fallback on the old CD, full of stuff scanned at the time. The moment you begin to convert the digital age, when you see the fax, which you so faithfully served for so long to maintain contact with the drawing-up, soon you would not most had occasion to use it, becoming obsolete, replaced by more efficient digital systems. A new era, in which you first load a CD on your computer and navigate their images with a button that open an old wallet.

And the pictures are running, as if a time machine that goes backward, bringing to an era when the future was uncharted territory, in which you saw not wait to begin exploring. So slowly see drawings you've done so long ago, and you have sent by fax in what is now called the "last century".

As this drawing here. What remains a mystery why it is being scanned and the fax come and not the original. This fax arrived in Bonelli 12 November 1999, the attention of Frederick, who was commissioned to create a few days before. I think I remember that he was satisfied.

One of my creations for Jonathan Steele, among those of which I was more (and still are) happy, here in the form that was sent to colleagues, via fax. For some years I continued to hope that the day um Burago could call Federico Bonelli or someone ... asking if she could make a model car Myriam: the "Cezanne".

Years after the Renault car called "Picasso." Perhaps there had gone too far with the advances the future. Then, much later, the series closed. And some time after the Burago was taken by the Chinese ...