La Mappaterra del Mago... THE BOOK!

Cover art by Francesco Frongia

My dear friend, musician, comic book author and scholar Francesco Pelosi did it! 

He revised, expanded and collected the Mappaterra series of essays he wrote for the online magazine Quasi (in Italian, of course), and they will be printed in book form! In this volume (as he did in the articles) Pelosi traces a map of Moore's work, investigating his stories under the lens of Eternalism, spacetime theory, magic and the power of imagination. You can still read the complete series HERE. I think they could disappear from the Web sooner or later (paper rules!), so... hurry up!

 

The 268-page book will be released on the 30th of April, published by Odoya. It's highly recommended, especially if you can read Italian! ;)

With a fantastic cover by Francesco Frongia, the volume is enriched with amazing illustrations by Italian artists (in order of appearance) Alessandro Aroffu, La Came, Alpraz, Christian Galli, Claudio Calia, David Bacter, Francesco Frongia, Polsino, Emme, Chiara Raimondi, Lorenzo Palloni, Alessio Ravazzani, Titta D’Onofrio, Federica Ferraro, Sara Vincenzi, Officina Infernale, and Rise. 

Afterword by Paolo Interdonato and a foreword by... yours truly! Grazie mille, Francesco!

Please note that Pelosi contributed to the Alan Moore: Portraits with a "remixed" essay from the Mappaterra series. So, you can read it there in English! No excuses!

Again, I highly recommend Pelosi's book: it's an amazing reading!