Coconino The stand is one of the first step in any self-respecting Lucca. The main reason is that if you want a drawing from Gipi , or arrive early or you will see your volume on top of a filthy cell that probably will be disposed to Lucca later. Detailed examination of my purchases, the Coconino this year has captured 33% of the costs comics, for a total of nearly one hundred EVRI. Was it worth it? Yes, yes and yes.
Gipi : lmvdm . The author tells in a stream of consciousness of personal events ( doctors, friends, drugs ), which distort and are transfigured under the lens of a dramatic irony and fantasy free rein. All without losing the thread, never get to the chaos. Enjoyable, legible, in short, albeit with a narrative structure by no means trivial. Gipi confirms an author really above average, with drawings to know how to go from "doodle" a few pages "badly drawn" to the wonderful watercolors of pirate history-in-history. To read, buy, give away to anyone. 
Gabriella Giandelli : under the leaves. The Giandelli track dreams to Chagall, with figures that look like puppets contours thick, black invades the cartoons, a fixity of expression that rarely deviates from a neutral witness, a neutral life, with a touch of melancholy acceptance marked their role. Dreams and ghosts, even when These micro stories of desperate everyday life dramas that lie beneath the leaves of a life spent in hiding. The stranger, the trait d'union of the two stories in the book, is the eye that brings them to light, which assists or generates the first crisis of catharsis. Under the leaves know fall into this pit of deafening minimal gestures and unspoken desperation with a slow hypnotic rhythm of images that follow one another like a procession. Remarkable. 
Dominique Debeurme : Lucille . The volume catalog of the most expensive Coconino ( € 29: Direct competition "with the work as essential Blankets and Bridge Nogunri ). The stretch of Lucille is light, thin, refined ( for once stole one word at a presentation on the back cover ), the cartoons are arranged on the pages floating in a sea of \u200b\u200bwhite and waived the usual grid of European comics, preferring carve out their functional positions to the story. Very reminiscent of that masterpiece which I've never liked of Chester Brown. The story of the plot between two boys and their problems of growth, the inner demons that follow them, anorexia when she slips, the fate of stifling poverty that seems to fade on him. Two souls, for reasons many come to believe that flight, together, is the only solution to the world they live. Lucille is a love story, a Bildungsroman, talking about dreams and how the real world is fun to cut. If you need to give him a pedigree, has won at Angouleme ( in 2007 Goscinny Prize ). Certainly it was a strategic victory deserved. Spectacular. 
Francesca Ghermandi : Hiawata Pete . It 's a collection of old strips Ghermandi , recolored for the occasion. His designs are: unique and always very expressive. The main character moves in a world weird stuffed to bursting with strange objects and characters impossible. The pace, however, remains very much the ducks disney, without departing from the canons of the genre. The result, perhaps because of age stories, the volume is decent but does not seem essential. 
Davide Toffolo : five gay guys dead (vol. 1 and 2) . Top stories of the dead boys, with the revival of the genesis of the group, in its original form ( designs that strange! ) and revised / updated. Is there any style of our own, with the stretch classic, smooth and a little theatrical, sometimes echoing Magnus, always very nice. The stories are naive and declamatory, with our intent that seem constantly to declare his state of being beyond the rules of life. But the two books you read well, have fun, and cd are in addition a further gift, maybe for completists Tofo of the band, but still interesting.
