Inauguration of the exhibition: “Vittorio Giardino, the elegance of comics”
Vittorio Giardino, author of the 2024 Festival Manifesto, is the most refined Italian comic book author and is best known in Italy, France and the USA and his works have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages. His meticulous and impeccable sign allows him to range between genres, with a foray into detective stories, eros, spy stories and bildungsroman. Giardino’s comics are characterized by the choice of often obscure historical settings, including the periods of Nazism, the Spanish Civil War and Stalinism, allowing their author to stage increasingly refined and full-bodied stories with a great variety of genres, passing from the hard-boiled of Sam Pezzo to the sociopolitical spy-story of Max Fridman, to erotic comics with Little Ego, up to Jonas Fink, a coming-of-age novel by a young Prague Jew from the post-war period to the fall of the wall. Cartoon Club dedicates a personal exhibition to him with a wide selection of original plates.
