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As some of you may know by the previous posting, I was invited to participate on a new web enterprise called Coreingrapho by my Italian pal Marco; better known as Makkox.

As you may know by the previous posting, I sent a short comic titled “A Walk”, that was wonderfully translated by JD and right away posted on their site.

I was happy, proud, ecstatic and a bit overwhelmed by the fact of having something I created in the same web site as Makkox and Flaviano; artists I was fan long before we ever exchanged emails, (now I’ll have to add to my list all other guys participating who are as talented).

I received comments for my comic strip (more than I ever had before!!!); most of them in Italian (some have been translated gratefully by Marco and JD), but I’ve found extremely helpful to read all of them in their original language using my own translation. It is always fun to read “testa di merda” and know they are saying “an artistic visionary” or “che cazzo stai dicendo?” and understand that they “love my words of wisdom”.

But in any case, this post is not to show off how much the Italian readers have loved my work, as they point out clearly on this comment: “Vaffanculo a Lei. Lei e' un cafone stronzo.” But to express how happy I am to discover that there is an audience that gets involved not only on the stories, but on the process of creation. It is something I haven’t found so easily here in the USA.

I’ve never been a huge fan of Marvel and muscle super heroes; although Frank Millers “Dark Knight” is an important part of my comic library. I’ve found other kind of graphic novels more appealing to my taste Gipi’s Garage Band, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Persepolis, Kings in Disguise, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic… and soooo many more.

All of them full of characters from everyday life, no special powers, no tights and capes. Plain and simple people you often feel very identified with.

Is it possible that in Europe with a smaller tradition of “cape crusaders”, a bigger audience has grown looking for a different kind of graphic novel one that “touches closer to home”? As an artist I hope so and as European I feel very proud for that.

Anyway, I wanted to thank all those people who left their comments, likes and dislikes and whom participate every day in a very active way in this wonderful project, as well as those who read my weekly strip and keep pushing me to make more.

Cheers.

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Working on my comics

Since I had a quite busy week and my whole family had been sick with flu, I had to crammed up today's comic strip in a single night... last night. I decided to go with a short story and not much of background.

Still the strip was up at 12:00 am.

Enjoy it!!

http://comics.escorialdesign.com/2009/02/20/books/

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