The government of the new super-state of Sillantoe has dispatched the dreadnought to explore the place, and if populated, civilise or pacify the natives. Agatha to investigate the growing loss of merchant shipping, junior officer Lieutenant Absinthe is troubled by the stunning natural beauty of volcanic atoll. When the warship Anselm II drops anchor in the bay of the paradisiacal islet of St. Either that or a classic case of a sensitive nature driven to madness by the regimentation of militarismâ€¦ With all his successive works from Murmur, the semi- autobiographical â€˜The Man in the Windowâ€™ (where he applied the same creative questioning doctrine to line-drawing as he had to paint, pastel and chalk colour), the historical Caboto and others he pursued a technique of offering multiple meanings and interpretations to the readerâ€¦įires was released in 1986, and details the experience of a navy officer seduced by the magical nature of a tropical island.

Initially working in a stylish but standard manner he gradually became obsessed with expanding the traditional comics form capturing the power of light, hue and motion on the page and exploring the inner world of the characters populating it, beginning with the seminal Il Signor Spartaco in 1982. His stunning illustrations have graced magazines as varied as Cosmopolitan, Le Monde, Vogue and The New Yorker. As well as the book under discussion here, his most well-known work is probably his 2003 Eisner award-winning adaptation of Dr. Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia 1954, and after studying architecture became a comics storyteller before graduating into a second career as a designer and illustrator.

By Lorenzo Mattotti (Catalan Communications)

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