CulturaPOP presents: the comic and its authors - Giacomo Keison Bevilacqua
On the occasion of the return to the comic store of Attica, the "manga" created for Sergio Bonelli Editore available in the complete version with box set, Giacomo Keison Bevilacqua will tell us the background of this unique publishing project, of his future projects and of the his Bevilacqua-verse now in full expansion!
Moderated by Domenico Bottalico, Manuel Enrico intervenes.
CulturaPOP presents: the comic and its authors
CulturaPOP presents: the comic and its authors is a monthly space in which writers and designers from the national and international scene will be guests of CulturaPOP's Twitch channel to tell the background, anecdotes and curiosities about the work behind the volumes and comic books that arrive in bookstores and comic shops.Giacomo Keison Bevilacqua
Giacomo Keison Bevilacqua made his debut in 2006 for Eura Editoriale, drawing the number 22 of the comic monthly Detective Dante edited by Lorenzo Bartoli and Roberto Recchioni. Later he works on the John Doe series, published in Skorpio magazine, and on the creation of various short stories published on Lanciostory, for example Easter, a miniseries created by him and Bartoli.In 2008 he creates the first strips of A Panda like, his most successful work, initially published exclusively on his blog and subsequently collected in paper volumes by Edizioni BD, Panini Comics and Feltrinelli Comics.
In 2012 he published Metamorphosis, a three-issue miniseries written and designed by him with the Aurea Editorial. In 2013 Bevilacqua joined the Panini Comics stable and made his debut with the Metamorphosis omnibus, and with A Panda Likes The First Great Book.
In 2016 he published his first graphic novel “The sound of the world by heart” with BAO Publishing. In the same year he also began his collaboration with Sergio Bonelli Editore with two other stories entirely written, drawn and colored by him: Lavennder, released in July 2017 for the Le Storie series and then, again, in November of the same year in all the bookcases in deluxe format, the second, as a special volume by Dylan Dog dedicated to Groucho, released in the Grouchomicon collection.
Between November 2019 and April 2020 he publishes the first edition of Attica for Sergio Bonelli Editore, a self-contained series in 6 volumes inspired in style and format by Japanese manga, designed for the comic book circuit.
About Attica:
WINNER OF THE LUCCA AWARD 2020 as BEST SERIES OF THE YEAR. Conceived by Giacomo Bevilacqua, author of A panda likes and various graphic novels, as a manga miniseries, by themes, format and narrative modules, Attica is now collected in a box that contains all the 6 numbers that compose it, after being distributed in in recent months in the only channel of comics with excellent sales, Attica, surrounded by impenetrable walls, is considered the most beautiful and modern city of the 21st century. A coveted tourist destination and hope for a better life for thousands of people, Attica is actually a big lie. For this reason, five boys with strange powers will unite in spite of themselves to carry out a crazy undertaking: to raze the walls of the most beautiful city in the world and put it to fire and sword, trying not to get killed. Or not to kill each other…
The appointment with CulturaPOP presents: the comic and its authors - Giacomo Keison Bevilacqua is for tomorrow 10 December from 9 pm on the Twitch channel of Cutura POP!.
Buy Attica (Box with the complete series).
