His name is Toons, Pera Toons. To the cartoonist adored by hordes of kids, who has been on the charts for months with multiple books at the same time and who is now returning to bookstores with a new volume entitled That fun!, we dedicate the cover of the new one Robinson on newsstands from Sunday 28 April, with an interview by Luca Valtorta and a comment by Viola Ardone.
A journey to the roots of the success of this author, who started as an advertising graphic designer and cartoonist and established himself on Instagram with Who killed Kenny?. And which bears the name of a fruit: “Pear like the abbreviation of my surname, Perugini, and Toons like cartoons, because in addition to books and comics I have always worked on the web also with animations” he tells Luca Valtorta .
Alessandro Perugini it’s a real one phenomenon: in 2023 it broke all sales records and in 2024 it will probably do better. But what is his secret, especially among the very young? “In my stories there is never real violence,” she explains, “and with children I know that when you say something you have to stick to it.” And then she adds: “I experienced first-hand the feeling of inadequacy: for a long time I felt like a fish out of water. I didn’t understand what my goal was, then little by little I made it.”
Pera Toons sarà al Turin Book Fair in the monumental Robinson Room on Sunday 12 May. Save your appointment now and don’t forget to bring your children: you won’t regret it!
For the reading of the week we instead propose a story by Eraldo Affinati which starts from a basement in Casal Bertone, in Rome, where Italian is taught to immigrants and worlds are shared.
In the space dedicated to TikTok two of the bookmakers who collaborate with us, Giulia Salaccione and Camilla Cardarelli, tell us about the evening they attended on 23 April at the Tlon theater bookshop in Rome, on the occasion of World Book Day: a great party based on readings, chats and cell phones left at the entrance. A more than successful experiment, inspired by the similar “mobile free” literary events that are popular in New York.
While Sara Scarafia interviewed Catharina Maura, Dutch writer with Caribbean roots, emerging star on TikTok where she is very popular with The other bride (Magazzini Salani), first volume of the Windsor romance saga.
As always, many reviews of the latest releases in bookstores, starting with The Guardian Of Ron Rash (arriving from April 30th for The New Frontier) which tells the story of deep America with the protagonist being a tomb guardian in North Carolina in the 1950s: Gabriele Romagnoli read it for us. While in Eurotrash (The ship of Theseus) Christian Power it conquers us with the crazy, unpredictable journey of a mother and son in Switzerland on the road as Sarah Savioli tells us.
Nadia Fusini instead reviewed the essay by Arturo Cattaneo e Gianluca Fumagalli, Shakespeare in Hollywood (Einaudi), which explains why the American twentieth century adopted the Bard into its canon, fueling Hollywood. The author to finally be rediscovered, by popular demand from readers, is Alfredo Panzini in the portrait of Filippo La Porta.
In the pages dedicated to kids we met Orianne Lallemand e Éléonore Thuillier, author and illustrator of Lupo, Bestselling French series much loved by children and happily brought to Italy by Gribaudo 10 years ago: an editorial phenomenon translated into 23 languages and published in 50 countries which also gave life to a cartoon broadcast on Rai Gulp and Rai Yoyo. The two authors visited some Italian schools for the first time and confessed to Ilaria Zaffino who met them in Bologna: “Our Wolf gets angry, makes mistakes, has a belly, one bigger eye and one smaller one: it is precisely the its imperfection that makes it credible.”
Protagonist in art is Masolino, master of Masaccio and true father of the Renaissance, now rediscovered by an exhibition in Empoli, as Antonio Rocca tells us. And, again, with Gregorio Botta we rediscover the Kounellis secret through his drawings exhibited at Museo Novecento in Florence. While Olga Gambari and I go to see the premiere Malta biennial which hosts a large group of Italian artists. This week’s Straparlando is finally with Giuseppe Goffredopoet and editor.
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– 2024-04-28 09:52:59
