September 5th, 2012
For those who don’t know it, Giétz! is a comic about how Jazz music came to Italy in the 50s, a story about a young boy and his trumpet on his way to world fame. I made this book together with Andrea Campanella about two years ago and it’s been a little success (at least for us). We won two prices and the book was reprinted after a year (which is quite rare for little known Italian authors like us).
It took me some time to be able to think about a new project. I even had times when I considered abandoning comics altogether. But as you know I have a new project!
Music Makers of the World has a couple of common traits with Giètz!: both stories are about music and have a young man as a protagonist. So on one hand I like to think about MMotW as an evolution of Giètz! a more personal take on the comic-about-music theme. On the other hand MMotW will be a completely different story, much more surreal and absurd, focusing on the present (and on the future) more than on the past. The story will be full of surreal landscapes, monsters and nighmares, crazy inventions and all those things that I love to draw!
So I think this Giétzcover illustration perfectly represents where MMotW comes from, and now let’s turn the page and think about the future!
March 27th, 2012
on the 17th I’ve been presenting Giètz at a place called Vinile (vinyl) in Milan. I’s been a nice evening, in a bizzarre looking place, with a great jazz band (the No chaser trio) playing the songs from the book.
Photos: Elisabeth Busani
March 19th, 2012
For this episode of Giètzcovers I’ve tried to remember how it was when I was drawing Giètz. What was I thinking about? And what music was I actually listening to? No, I wasn’t listening to jazz most of the time. Usually I would listen to some 80s post punk stuff, like Joy Division or the Cure. If I wanted something jazzier I would play Bohren and the Club of Gore or the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.
So If I had to draw a version of Giètz that reflects what I was actually listening to in that time, it might look a bit more like this one: Nico the gravedigger who likes to play some good old Jazz while shooting some zombies… a mix between Dellamorte Dellamore and Young Man with a Horn.
March 15th, 2012
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March 14th, 2012
I dedicate this new Giètzcover to Moebius, the greatest comic artist ever. Who has been my primary source of inspiration for a really long time.
Arzach was the one comic that really made me want to get into the business.
March 6th, 2012
March 2nd, 2012
Visto che questa cosa delle copertine di Giétz mi sta pigliando bene, ecco la prossima in stile Roy Lichtenstein!
March 1st, 2012
After seeing this great piece by David Rubin, I had an idea: what if I make several variations of the Gietz! cover? Just for fun… to see what come out.
Well, I just started to do it, this is the first one: with zombies of course!
February 27th, 2012
Jazz dinner at the library il Pensatoio to promote Giètz!, which has just been reprinted
The main dish: cheese!
A view of the library, which by the way is a really beautiful one.
Incidentally, the same evening, there was a jazz concert dedicated to Chet Baker… and we didn’t even know about it until after the dinner.
At the fair, drawing stuff. Unfortunately this is the only picture we’ve taken there.
Photos by Elisabeth
February 23rd, 2012
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