Jan
8
2010
We can only pray that this ain’t gonna be brutal, my friendz… oooh, my bloggin’ companioz… we have here the main Capo of Komikaze collective… I..i…i…i…i…ivana A…a…a…a…a…armanini…
Photo: Ivana Armanini
Illustration excerpt from Adventures of Gloria Scott (2005)
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Nov
18
2009
His characters are nameless, yet each of us… dancer… boxer… prisoner… trumpeter… dreamer… runner…. juggler… invisible painter…
Vita Precarie by Danijel Zezelj taken from Globalproject
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Aug
6
2009
During the Animafest, back in June, I have visited master class by cartoonist Bill Plympton where he was talking about his approach to cartoons and showed us some of his latest films. Afterward, we sat and talked a little bit on his carrier, influences and animation…
Photo taken from independentfilm.com (c)
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Aug
5
2009
Robert Crumb… Comic book author guilty on all charges for creating and spreading underground comics… I don’t think I’d ever read any of his comics that hasn’t made me laugh out loud… take the best of independent America + influences of all women Crumb tried to get laid + a bunch of his obsessions = brilliant and hilarious world of Robert Crumb…

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Jul
7
2009
For those of us hooked up to Miguelanxo Prado’s atmospheric and, kind of Borgesian graphic novels, animated film ‘De Profundis – The Sound of the Sea‘ was simply an extended version of artist’s imaginative and poetic world.
This film has all complexity of the novel structure that characterizes Prado’s work with interlaced elements, like music and fluid atmosphere that simply slide on the big screen the idea of deep Ocean life and parallel, the idea of deep artist’s imaginarium inherited from his life experiences.

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