Vague stars of fantafumetto, including reprints and new – the poster (Registration)

The science fiction: a genre for all seasons, very popular since the birth of popular fiction, film, and it goes without saying cartoon. Like an underground river, though, with moments of great sweep alternated with apparent drought. The current trend? That of a cheerful brook, between interesting and rare but significant rediscoveries “new proposals” to watch.

Philippe Druillet , to say. Impossible to summarize in a few lines this French seventy: son of fascistoni expatriates in Spain. Little patient of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Collector of beetles. Protected René Goscinny , co-author of Asterix. Painter and sculptor. co-founder of Humanoids Associates and author of Bede much appreciated everywhere, but not in Italy, where his nervous sign and very detailed is a cult for a few … reminds Magic Press with two pillars of the production of the French Teacher : Lone Sloane – integral and and Salammbo . The proscenium, the Space Cowboy created by Druillet for Pilote in 1966, and obvious inspiration of George Lucas (avowed fan) for many inventions of Star Wars . The two collections for sale to € 30 and 20 describe the best of character, witnessing decades of graphic and narrative evolution: at the beginning and if the influence of the comic stars and stripes seems clear, over time the adventure of Sloane part on a tangent, with a mix of aesthetic suggestions able to range (!) by Gustave Flaubert to conceptual art. Comic meditation, to sip slowly to better appreciate the infinite nuances, in the hope that sooner or later Magic Press decides to publish works such as The night , “therapeutic” futuristic story of bikers made in homage to wife disappeared.

Always Science Fiction , but with a different slant, in Patience by Daniel Clowes, published by Bao to 25 euro, the longest work and perhaps the most overtly “light” Chicago author . relative lightness, of course, because as in the masterpiece of late 90s David Boring , the tendency to psychological excavation is carried too far, with a maniacal attention to tic , of the past, phobias and very human character limits. Here too, the citationist game picks the style of so many comic books 60 years, including time travel and funny gadgets improbable assumptions, but just the stark contrast between the meticulousness of the character building and shortcuts mysterious gravure creates the preconditions for a wonderfully layered and rewarding reading. Engine of each other, two lovers of extraordinary normality, forced to chase the folds of the past and present to be able to carve out a hope for the future, Clowes updates the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to contemporary anxieties of ‘eternal insecurity. The work that is not there, the seductions that are not consumed, the sense of futility that turns any heroism in an enterprise without catharsis and without redemption … There would be enough to ask of such delights would be able Clowes with any super -eroe by super-problems. Too bad you do not appreciate.

About super-heroes with super-problems: never forget the Japanese. Not so much the mecha , which also represent a major item in the catalog of manga ; As other heroes “cursed”, also culturally rather distant from the milieu which has accustomed us the comic of our house. One above all, the Violence Jack by Go Nagai, amazing foray Father of the various Mazinger, Grendizer and Jeeg in the genre of apocalyptic science fiction and “alternative sequel” devilman . Even this tall giant more than two meters from the wolfish grin and prodigious strength has the characteristics of a demon voted to good, with his obstinacy in exercising violence of the title only on the most sinister survived the catastrophic earthquake that has turned Japan into a tabula rasa. But even if the first volume of the organic reprint of Violence Jack seems perfectly in line with the canons of the genre, in fact the maxi series of Nagai should be read in light of monstre duration, eighteen tankobon 500 pages € 9.90, and over twenty years in the making: a darkly compelling digression on the hidden evil in the human heart that leaves little room for frivolity. For those, there is on newsstands the complete and cost of super-robot series produced by the same J-Pop to celebrate the career of the mangaka acclaimed host the latest edition of Romics .