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Jesi showcases 33 years of independent comics with Slovenian collective Stripburger

The city of Jesi (Ancona) is hosting, from September 19 to November 23, 2025, the fifth edition of the exhibition dedicated to international comics with the exhibition STRIPBURGER - Pioneers of independent comics | 33 years on the scene. The initiati...
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Salento, Taranto's MArTa and Salicomix festival bring archaeology and comics together

Myth and fantasy meet in the heart of Salento. Salice Salentino, in the province of Lecce, is preparing to host the third edition of Salicomix, the fair dedicated to comics, animation, role-playing and board games, card gaming and video games, schedu...
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Here's why Frank Miller's 300 is a good comic book

When in 1998 Frank Miller (Olney, 1957), an American cartoonist and screenwriter, published 300, published by Dark Horse Comics, the American comics landscape was undergoing a phase of transformation: the superhero language was seeking new avenues, a...
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Israeli-Palestinian war told in Gina Nakhle Koller's comic strip

A new book chronicles the Israeli-Palestinian war through an unconventional narrative medium: comics. Lebanese-Palestinian author Gina Nakhle Koller, born in 1982, recently published While the World Watches, an illustrated chronicle documenting the v...
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Lorenzo Mattotti brings his Fantastico Altrove between fairy tale, color and memory to Peccioli

On Friday, March 28, the exhibition Un Fantastico Altrove, dedicated to Lorenzo Mattotti (Brescia, 1954), one of the most celebrated contemporary Italian cartoonists and illustrators, opened in Peccioli, in the rooms of Palazzo Senza Tempo. The event...
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Milo Manara's drawings for Mozart on display in Modena

Modena's Museo della Figurina pays tribute to one of the great masters of Italian comics, Milo Manara, with an exhibition celebrating his passion for opera and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From November 22, 2024 to January 12, 2025, in the spaces of Pala...
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Rovereto kicks off Nuvolette, the illustration and comics festival

Live drawing performances, workshops, solo and group exhibitions, meetings with authors and a comics and pop culture publishing fair will transform Rovereto, May 22-26, 2024, into an open-air art gallery. Artists and musicians for five days will enli...
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Milo Manara rereads the Metamorphoses. His illustrations for Così Fan Tutte exhibited in Jesi.

A Milo Manara exhibition in Jesi: The Marche city is hosting the master of comics for the first time with an exhibition dedicated to him in the Betto Tesei Rooms of Palazzo Pianetti, Oct. 14-29, 2023. On display is a series of 24 new illustrations by...
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