November 10th, 2009
The good news is that Bolzano Comics is going pretty well so far!
The bad news is that I’m too busy to keep up with the hundred word stories so tomorrow there will be none. I’m sorry.
In the meantime I’ll keep you posted with pictures from the festival. Here’s us while setting up the Thomas Ott exhibition, which will be open till this saturday.
October 29th, 2009
Mono #7 is about to hit the comic scene, it will be talking about crisis and be presented at the upcoming Lucca Comicon. In this issue you can find a story by me and Andrea Campanella.
Bolzano Comics will start soon (it will be from the 6th to the 15 of November). You can find infos about the whole thing on the festival website bolzanocomics.it. There you can also see the selected entries for the NoWords Comics Contest. They get published daily, on the frontpage of the website.
go for it! www.papernoise.net
October 5th, 2009
The jury, foto by Armin Barducci
Saturday the Grand Jury for the NoWords Comics contest had its final meeting. The Members of the Jury were 4 (as shown in the photo above, from left to right): Luigi Fassi curator of the Museum Gallery, Giancarlo Alessandrini the visual creator of Martin Mystere and comic artist for Bonelli, Thomas Ott our special guest from Switzerland and master of the scratch-board, and finally me.
We had a really hard time judging the entries, as there were a lot of really great works among them. In the end, after endless discussions, we managed to come to a final verdict… and I must say I am really pleased with it. Of course now it’s still a bit early to reveal the names of the winners to the public, but keep an eye on the bolzanocomics.it website and you’ll know soon enough.
Me and Elisabeth spent the following day with Thomas Ott and his wife Anet, showing them the wonders of Bolzano… like the mummy exhibition at the Archaeology Museum (the museum where Oetzi lies… how fitting!). Thomas of course really liked the exhibition… as I did as well. It’s amazing and really well done, with mummies from all over the world (from Egypt, Peru, China, Italy, northern Europe just to name a few) and a lot of background information.
The day ended with Thomas Ott sitting on our drawing table signing the books by him he found in my bookshelf. And he also gave me a copy of his latest publication called Unplugged (Edition Stephan Witschi, Zürich, CH), a great collection of sketches and doodles.
I’ve been a huge fan of Thomas Ott for a long time, ever since I saw one of his stories on Strapazin, more than 10 years ago. I think he’s one of the most interesting artists around, a real master of the scratch-board technique and he’s got this ability to create dense and capturing atmospheres, something I really would like to be able to do… so it was really exiting to meet him and go around and just talk about comics and movies and making art…
A portrait of me by Thomas Ott
Thomas Ott (t.0.t.t.) homepage
Martin Mystere
Museum Gallery AR-GE Kunst
South Tyrol Museum of Archeology
Bolzano Comics 2009
August 8th, 2009
My short comic Pixelface has just been awarded a Daily Deviation on deviantart.com. Yeah!
“*gasteropod takes pixelation to creepy new heights with his Pixelface comic comic. I particularly enjoy the clever transition of the later panels into pixels as the character transforms, and how everything is actually framed within the last panel.” (Suggested by `Iscariot-Priest and Featured by ^Cedarseed)
Just as a reminder, I had made Pixelface as a promotional comic for the Bolzano Comics Festival and the NoWords contest.