Jazz Friday talks about music, art and probably a lot about my latest comic Gietz. Jazz Friday will be published weekly, each Friday. Jazz Friday will feature “making of” and “behind the scenes” content, as well as some tutorials. Jazz Friday is something I have been wanting to do for some time now… And now… let’s get on with it!
Gietz, the origins, or… why did I accept to do this in the first place?
First sketch I made of the protagonist, Nico
Sometimes I still ask myself, why did I accept to work on this comic? I was already sick of historical stuff, of stories dealing with reality, of documentaries and documentation. Round and Round had proved that, this was not the type of comics I wanted to be working on. So why draw Gietz? The answer is: there’s nothing I like more than a good challenge… and Gietz was a huge challenge for me. Fortunately it wasn’t a real historical comic. Though the story is set in a precise time (the fifties in Italy) the plot and the main characters are all fictional. For me the challenge was to work on something bigger than what I had done until then (the longest story I drew was 33 pages). The 130 pages of Gietz looked like a good exercise, and in fact they were. 
I’ve learned a lot of things from this work. First of all I refined my techniques, I learned to keep on fighting even when I could no more. I have become a lot better in evaluating and managing my time and I have developed a lot of tricks to make work easier and quicker (tricks I will be talking about soon!) This will probably be the last comic of this kind I will be working on for some time, from now on I want to focus more on my deformed, grotesque style, but forcing myself to draw this way has been very important. 
The other reason why I have accepted to work on this project is certainly my interest for the relationship between music and comics. I have always found it to be a really fascinating one. Not only because I love music, as I love comics, but because I think that these two languages somehow complement each other well. So, while Gietz might be the last comic of this kind for me, I’m really glad I had the chance to be working on it!
Jazz-Friday, coole Sache.
Kann mir sehr gut vorstellen das eine tolle Möglichkeit ist sich technisch weiter zu entwickeln.
“I have developed a lot of tricks to make work easier and quicker (tricks I will be talking about soon!)”
klingt interessant.
Un certo signore di Luson , prima di concedersi alla sua passione , ha firmato le storie piu’ impegnate e belle del fumetto italiano, solo che pochi sembrano ricordarlo.
Mi sa che avete l aria buona.
Anch’io sono contento che tu l’abbia fatto e non vedo l’ora di metterci le mani sopra!