In Solo RoomTuesday 23 April at 6.00 pm, the Neapolitan journalist Mario Natangeloborn in 1985 – considered the most caustic satirical cartoonist around – presents, in dialogue with Viola Ardone, the book “Ash. Notes from a mourning” (preface by ErriDeLuca), published by Rizzoli.
Ash is an illustrated story dedicated to mourning the loss of a mother. A book about death, about pain, but not only. Cenere is first of all a book about life and love, where you cry a lot and laugh a lot. Natangeloeven in this latest work, he does not give up on Satire: sarcasm and comedy, this time are turned against himself, and with his recognizable trait and sharp wit, he offers the reader a new, more intimate and vulnerable face.
In a time that takes on a new rhythm, the irregular one of waves of pain, bringing the reader closer and further away from the day of his mother’s death, Natangelo draws on all his satirical baggage. And to the question “Can you make people laugh by talking about one of life’s greatest, inevitable and natural pains?” the answer incredibly becomes yes.
In the diary of his suffering, in what Natangelo defines as a “speleology of the heart”, “a core sampling of pain”, together with his sister Annato “beloved father”, to his nieces and the characters who crowd his daily life, colleagues, directors with caricatural features and beautiful and ethereal women, there is room to suffer and have fun, in both cases without fear of reaching tears .
«The drawing has the graceful trait of reducing, of attenuating, in contrast with the violence of the loss», he writes Erri De Luca, in the preface to the book. After Ora dove sei?, Somewhere in Italy and Ghiaccio, his latest webcomic is Ultime dalla Terra. A cartoonist in Patagonia, published on www.natangelo.it.
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