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Depuis la création des site bdgest.com et bedetheque.com, nous nous sommes fait une règle de refuser tous les formats publicitaires dits "intrusifs". Notre conviction est qu'une publicité de qualité et bien intégrée dans le design du site sera beaucoup mieux perçue par nos visiteurs. Pour continuer à apprécier notre contenu tout en gardant une bonne expérience de lecture, nous vous proposons soit : Francesca Ghermandi: It is a moonlit evening in an enormous chateau deep in the Italian countryside. The long corridors are empty. Outside the winds moan. Alone in her cavernous bedroom, the night shadows gather around a little girl lying in her bed. Drowsy and a bit scared, she tries shutting her eyes to sleep. Vivid images start to dance before her eyes. She can’t stop visualising all the bedtime stories her mother and grandmother have been telling her, with their not-so-happy endings. The little girl’s nocturnal imaginings merge with the faces and creatures she has been absorbing in all day from her much loved comics and picture books, and the drawings she has made of her own. Sleep eventually comes, floating her on a tide of dreams to the morning. Welcome to a night in the childhood of of Francesca Ghermandi, one of Italy’s most talented and exuberant comics creators. Growing up in a huge house with her sculptor father and artist mother, it must have seemed as if she had a castle for her home and magicians for her parents. From the earliest age, making art and stories became part of her everyday life and as a student making comics or ‘fumetti’ would be her chosen postgraduate studies. It was at Bologna’s Zio Feininger comics school that she became inspired by American animation’s most manic genius Tex Avery. If anything signaled an end to the sugary sweetness swamping American cartoons under Disney it was the short, sharp sniff of Screwy Squirrel in Screwball Squirrel in April 1944. With this short, Screwy escorts the supposed star of the cartoon - a charming, chattering squirrel - behind a tree, where he proceeds to beat him up and then hijack the cartoon to his own ends. Avery’s sadistic, selfish squirrel personifies the sheer entertaining anarchy of seeing established order and common sense demolished. "In a cartoon everything is possible," and the same is true in Francesca’s funny animal fumetti. Helter Skelter is her cat sheriff of the future, named after the book and movie about the Charles Manson murders. His one weakness is a ravenous appetite for sardines. In the delirious ‘splatter cartoon’, her moral guardian is always being persecuted either by a grinning horned devil midget or by his own criminal brother, Killer Driller, but according to the laws of cartoon physics, always bounces back unscathed for more punishment. Francesca’s first publication in English, in David Mazzucchelli’s Rubber Blanket in 1993, led to her next series being picked up by Kim Thompson at Fantagraphics from 1997 for the anthology Zero Zero in issues 19, 20, 22 and 24. In Pop. 666 (as in population 666, the cursed number), Francesca and writer Massimo Semerano invented the improvised ghetto of San Lazzaro, described by Thompson as like, "Palomar on acid." No funny animals live here, but the human inhabitants are equally grotesque, obsessive and destructive. Even at the bottom of society, there is always someone else even lower to exploit. Extortionist and sex-starved glutton Rocco terrorises the villagers by forcing them to pay taxes on ‘his’ land, but beneath his brutal exterior, he pines for his forgotten movie starlet Hilde Historieta, now a desiccated, aquaphobic shell. When Francesca was only eight, she was transfixed by Chester Gould’s stark black and white morals in Dick Tracy , one of her inspirations here. The difference is that there is no square-jawed detective dispensing justice, only a godless slum, where everyone pays for their sins , including the innocent. This is true ‘cartoon noir’, so desperate and absurd that it becomes chillingly funny. The tone is her three wordless Pastille albums (Seuil) appears much lighter, recalling Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland , although the world can still be threatening for this hapless heroine with a head shaped like a Tylenol tablet. Silent comics take you back to an age before you could read words, when you could only try to make sense from what you see. They force you to read the faces and body language, to spot the clues from one panel to the next, to really look. The effect of this is to make you feel the same sort of disorientation that Pastille is going through, heightened by the textures and atmosphere in Francesca’s pencilling and shading. There is a little of Francesca in all her characters, but I think this little girl with a hyperactive imagination particularly taps into her memories and feelings from childhood. Cartoon noir also best describes her latest 80-page large-format colour album The Wipeout , also from Fantagraphics. Francesca’s cast of misfits may look like cute advertising mascots and cartoon figurines, but their passions are all too sordidly human. Meet hen-pecked husband Jim Tartaglia, a big-nosed, overly flexible, die-cut silhouette. He’s a poorly paid, absent-minded chemist, who easily lapses into erotic nightmares, when he’s not busy refining his revolutionary all-purposes cleaner. No wonder, when all his bald beachball wife Bawl yearns for are the latest hair transplants, way beyond their means. Their stagnating marriage reaches breaking point when Jimbo falls in love with dishy brunette Virgin Prunes upstairs. When they accidentally discover that Jim’s cleaner mixed with milk literally wipes people out, erasing every identifiable trace, Virgin lures Jim into using it to murder a blackmailing loan shark. But in true Femme fatale tradition, her motives are far more devious. Since Jim is the same shape as her husband, Virgin and Bawl plot together to wipe Jim out and pass his blank corpse off as that of Mr Prunes so they can split his life insurance. In this dizzying maelstrom of desire and deceit, part Double Indemnity , part Mulholland Drive , you need your wits about you to distinguish dream from reality, present from past or future, truth from lies. Francesca’s hardboiled fantasia dazzles in its lustrous palette, harking back to vintage Disney cels and Sixties Italian advertising illustration. Like the rollercoaster on the cover, its spiralling logic rattles around the tracks of your mind, long after you have woken up yourself. In 2004, Francesca had a major gallery exhibition in the Museum Of Illustration in Ferrara, Italy and new strips appearing in the Graphic Classics collection of Ambrose Bierce adaptations and The Comics Journal’s 2004 Special . In her two-page strip she is auditioning a new character, an Addams Family-style skeletal figure who looks set to be the actor in another album now on her drawing board. Francesca is back in her bedroom in the chateau. It’s getting dark, it’s time to go to sleep. Time to close your eyes and dream… Posted: April 22, 2007. The original version of this article appeared in 2004 in Comics International , the UK’s leading magazine about comics, graphic novels and manga. Art Of The Soul . Emotional And Interactive . Art In Constant Development . Thursday, March 1 there will be a conference of Saatchi & Saatchi: One of the most important advertising agencies in the world with over 143 studies in 83 countries worldwide. Saatchi & Saatchi works with many advertisers and works for major brands and organizations in the world: Toyota, United Nations, Amnesty International, Bose etc. At present their activities will be the Deputy Director of Saatchi & Saatchi pancreatic Rome, Stefano Massari. Sunday, February 25, 2007. Slow French Song With. Typography and reading. Saturday, in "All Books" de "La Stampa", was released a short article on typography and the importance it has had and continues to play in the field of reading. Clicking on the title of the post you can download the pdf. Friday, February 23, 2007. Rash Caused By Sinisutis. The sketchbook of myself. E 'I always used to make sketches on any piece of paper that happens to me in his hands and then I learned to always bring along a notebook or something and of course a pen. ideas you can come at any moment, you are indeed more often when you're uncomfortable places to draw. Rarely find the inspiration to your home but when you're changing jobs or are in some way also challenging simplicity because you manage to relax or change the system of thought. The sketches are like thoughts but also more than that, because each section is not equivalent to a word but a set of traits tell a story. Sometimes it's the story that the author wanted to tell, other times it is this history that is interpreted by those who see and read in its own way. I personally sketches serve as a reminder, remember the ideas that I had to carry them out success. The fact is that we still realize little, and I hope that this school will help me to realize more, you know what to do with ideas, meanwhile, continues to collect. At home I have mountains of paper, notepads, and so on. Unpresentable all stuff! I never thought it would be useful to see their sketches, have always been very jealous . The sketchbook is lighting! Present their sketches, drawings, photographs and stories about a good book! For me it is very useful and I will continue to do. Experiment with some different format, maybe even a little larger than the size that I use now because I hate fill their pockets even if it is small and do not ever put it. Instead I move always with a bag and sketchbook wherever I go I keep it there. Now that we are doing design work I like combining the two-dimensional graphics to photography rather than drawing and then I'm putting my pictures in the sketchbook. A Camuffo liked and Robert asked me to write this piece. I see them already sketched! PABLO. Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Stiff Neck Meningitis Itchy Fine Rash On Back. Print jobs. blank sheet of paper when printed. On Friday we visited Maggioli graphic module, and we thank them for availability and acceptance. We were able to admire near the complete process from pre-packaging, is essential to understand the complexity of a printed chart rpogetto. Saturday, February 10, 2007. Building A Wood Beer Pong Table. My book of colors. After reading "The Little Book of Color" by Michel Pastoureau and Dominique Simonnet (published by Ponte alle Grazie, Milano 2006 ), I had as a shock, and found in many passages the author's analysis of symbolic colors, I said to myself: "Why do my brainstorming on the different colors?" Note, for those who have read or read (which I recommend deep), that my impressions may, indeed, should not be, as they are to those of the historical anthropologist, but stem from a series of experiences, feelings and, indeed, "impressions" that are typical of those faces. Finally, I would not like this was some sort of review on a popular book, or a set of guidelines on methods of design (I do not have the skills yet), but a simple starting point for those who want to confront the outside world and themselves. Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Jon Cryer Make Per Episode. Friday there will be a lecture on record sleeves. Everyone is invited to bring your favorite CD. For those who have difficulty recover in time for Friday, should still tell us the title and author and if possible bring an audio file of the same. Sunday, February 4, 2007. My Friend Gives Blowjob. Pastille visual music and the other! Friday afternoon Francesca Ghermandi us into his world. Took us through his career, his passion, his drawings and his visions, from the early works in black and white drawings to color, from the first stories written entirely by her animation produced for the Venice Film Festival . It was an intense and entertaining encounter given the ability to tell Frances and describing his characters, his life, and for simplicity in responding to written questions from the students: When. dreams at night, do you ever dream your world of comics, or dreams has always been a comic? Why do your drawings seem macabre, scary? Your. is definitely a job that leaves a lot of freedom, right? Having to work fast do not you ever discouraged? What is the void for you? Your city, Bologna, affected in some way on your education and career? Why did you choose the comics? What kind of subjects you liked to draw as a child? You feel more free to express yourself now or in the 80s? How do you think people are so strange, so exasperated with parts of the body? No offense, you must be sick or just very imaginative? qunato is important to draw well? The ability is innate or can it develop? What advice would you give to an aspiring cartoonist or such? What are your sources of inspiration? What prompted you to make this work? The stories are purely invented, or are drawn from practical experience? What do you love most about your job? Your. was an experimental work, especially in technical in which you are now able to better communicate your ideas and why? Your work is influenced by the tools or instruments are chosen depending on the job? Pastille by Francesca Ghermandi. Francesca Ghermandi è nata nel 1964 a Bologna, dove vive e lavora. Inizia la sua attività di fumettista e illustratrice dopo aver frequentato un corso di fumetti tenuto dal gruppo Valvoline e da Andrea Pazienza. Le sue prime storie a fumetti escono su Reporter, Il Manifesto, Frigidaire, Sortiez le Chienne, Echo de Savannes in Francia, El Vibora in Spagna e La Dolce Vita. In seguito, è pubblicata su Cyborg, Comic Art, Il Grifo, Linus, Mano, Strapazin (Svizzera), Streepburger (Slovenia), Kitchen Sink Press, Rubber Blanket, Graphic Classic, Comic Journal (USA). Con l’editore Phoenix ha pubblicato Helter Skelter, Rebo, Pastil, Pastil 2 (in Italia, pubblicato da Einaudi). Il terzo libro di Pastil esce presso Editions du Seuil (Francia), Sinsentido (Spagna). Per Fantagraphics Books (USA) escono Bang! e Grenuord. Per Ed. Riuniti ha illustrato testi di Rodari e Piumini. Come illustratrice ha collaborato con numerose case editrici e agenzie di pubblicità, italiane e straniere. Suoi lavori sono apparsi in mostre collettive e personali, in Italia e all’estero. Fra i numerosi premi assegnati: Lo Straniero, Miglior Autore Completo Lucca Comics, Jacovitti/Lisca di pesce Expocartoon. Nel 2005, ha realizzato la sigla animata per la 62° Biennale Cinema di Venezia.