(Italiano) Giètz! su iPad

August 13th, 2010

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La news non è nuovissima… ma sempre tardi che mai. A proposito della questione iPad, fumetti, libri, gente che legge e che non legge ne avrei un bel po’ da dire, ma sarà per un altra volta, intanto eccovi la news così com’è, senza commento (via tunue.com):

Il numero dei graphic novel che la Tunué sta convertendo in app per iPad diventa sempre più alto, e così anche Giètz! ora può essere scaricato da iTunes App Store a soli 0,79 cent.

Ambientato a La Spezia negli anni della liberazione americana, è una storia di passione, per la musica e la vita: Nico, il protagonista, è un giovane che ama suonare la tromba e a contatto con i soldati americani e afroamericani scoprirà sonorità nuove e realizzerà così il sogno di diventare a tutti gli effetti un vero trombettista, un trombettista giètz.

Un graphic novel completamente incentrato sulla musica e sull’unione che ha provocato in anni di paura e divisione trapersone diverse; una storia avvincente che potrebbe essere, come dice Paolo Fresu, curatore della prefazione “la storia di uno dei tanti trombettisti jazz”.

Per scaricare l’app
Giètz!


Absorber, now in Polish!

August 12th, 2010

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I recently found this anthology named Pirat in my mailbox. It’s a project by Polish comic artist Mikolaj Spionek, who ask me for a contrubution some time ago. It’s really fun to see one’s creations translated into a foreign language…

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Music related illustrations-comics

August 10th, 2010

It’s been a hot summer so far. Not only because of the climate we had here in the region, but also because I’ve been on fire with work! The consequence is that I have become a bit “lazy” in relation to this blog. On the other hand, now that things are cooling down a bit, I have a lot of stuff to talk about, so let’s start!

Giètz! is not the only music related work I’ve done in the last year. In fact as I had forseen, it’s been a very “musical” year so far!

I had the pleasure to create an illustration dedicated to the great band Pere Ubu for the venue Il circolo degli artisti in Rome. Pere Ubu is really a very inspiring band for my work.

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Being a fan of 80s darkwave tunes and retro horror aesthetics I was more than pleased when the Italian fanzine group Lamette gave me the opportunity to create a comic about Bauhaus. This comic was also a great chance to test my “parasite” techniques on a black&white format. I chose to work with a style that takes a lot from old horror movies (like those starring Bela Lugosi), which works perfectly in b/w.

tavola02The last one, is also the oldes of the three. Its a comic inspired by the song Spiracle by Soap&Skin. To quote myself earlier:

Spiracle is a wonderful song by Austrian songwriter Anja Plaschg aka Soap&Skin,contained in her first (and still only) album Lovetune for Vacuum. Andrea Provinciali, one of the editors of Il Mucchio, asked me several months ago to participate in this project called Pencil Song, where comic artists are asked to reinterpret a song of their choice in comic form. It was around that time that I discovered Soap&Skin and her sound just made me want to draw something to it.
As a funny side note, the issue in which this comic appears, is fittingly numbered #666.

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I’ve got several other music related project which I’m currently working on, so there’s more coming soon!

New stuff in the pipeline

July 27th, 2010

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More about this soon…

Cover design for PlainFlavored

July 26th, 2010

cover_v1.3As you probably know I recently got more and more involved in the wonderful world of chipmusic. Until now it was mainly something related to my musical activity (as a listener and producer), but recently this has started to involve also my activity as an illustrator and designer. Actually I have been longing more and more to close the gap between these two worlds, creating illustrations for musicians, and making music inspired by illustrations and comics… somehow things are starting to work out!

I’m proud to announce that the album Hexadecimator: Chipmusic in G Minor by PlainFlavored, for which I’ve designed the cover, has finally been released! You can grab it at Calmdownkidder.com or check out the first track of the album right here.

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More about the realease:

Adam Schackart may be PlainFlavored by name, but his music certainly isn’t! Hexadecimator includes five tracks of DMG music influenced by a dream that took place in the summer of 2009, as well as eight years of previously abandoned works. This creates a work that is both somehow fractured and complete at the same time, turning from underclocked churning to high powered energetic music instantaneously.
With cover art by Hannes Pasqualini (click album art for larger image) and vocal and acoustic guitar intro by Andrew Winzenburg.

Lazy Saturday Sketches #26

July 17th, 2010

As you might have noticed I’m back from my vacation. We had a good time, the weather was fine, the sea in Sardinia beautiful as ever, and thanks to a friend of mine, Marco, I now am the proud owner of a Gameboy Camera! Coolest thing ever!

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I thought I had been really unproductive at the sea, but now that I browse through the pages I have drawn into my sketchbook I see that it isn’t true, in fact I have been quite productive… I’ll be posting some of these drawing over the next weeks in my “lazy Saturday sketches” series.

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Massarosa Jazz Festival, pictures

July 16th, 2010

I’m on vacation!

June 23rd, 2010

If you’re reading this in your office, envy me! Because I’m in the most beautiful place in Italy, in Sardinia! If you’re on vacation yourself, shame on you, what are you doing in front of the computer!

Anyway… I’ll be back in a couple of weeks!

And now… let’s jump back into the water…

(Italiano) Massarosa Jazz Festival

June 18th, 2010

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(Italiano) Comic Battle a Torino!

June 17th, 2010

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