Stefano Obino in Veneto with “Salazar. The silence of death”, Camena Edizioni
“Salazar. The silence of the plague”, Camena Edizioni, the latest dazzling graphic novel by Stefano Obino, arrives in the places where it was set and conceived with three meetings between Treviso and Venice from 10 to 12 May.
These are the appointments in detail:
- Friday May 10th in Trevisoin via Manin 22, presentation and signing of copies at the comic shop Comix League from 4.30pm to 6.30pm, as part of the Treviso Comic Book Festival
- Saturday May 11th in VeniceFondamenta dei Tolentini 222, signs copies at the nautical bookshop Sea of Paper to 5pm
- Sunday May 12th in Venicepresentation of the comic on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo at 10:00 am guest of Urbs Scripta, the first festival dedicated to historical graffiti ever held in Italy. Stefano Obino talks with Alberto Toso Feiwriter and creator of the festival
Stefano Obino in Veneto with “Salazar. The silence of death”, Camena Edizioni
The graphic novel unfolds in a dramatic period for the Venice of the 16th century century, after the tragic battle of Lepanto and during the crisis of the Serenissima Republic of Doge Alvise Mocenigo, hit by the most serious plague epidemic known up to then. Joaquin Salazar, plague doctor, is about to go to fulfill his duty accompanied by his beloved wife on the sea. He doesn’t know that fate will put him in front of one of the highest moral dilemmas: following the principles of work and law and denying the values that make you a man, or remain faithful to one’s oaths?
If there are many comics in which the drawings tend to accompany the dialogues, here the exact opposite is true, Stefano Obino’s watercolor conveys an atmosphere, a state of mind, a revelation with brilliant immediacyand this happens both in the wide-ranging tables, perhaps with a maritime background, and for the details of an expression, a face, an object, which can say more about that character than entire written pages.
“I am truly thrilled at the idea of presenting my latest work in Veneto and in particular in Venice, where I set the story of my new book”, Obino says: «Bartolomeo Salazar’s two graphic novels are born from the project of creating a network of Lazzaretti d‘Italypromoted by Sant. cooperative‘Elijah 2003 which manages the Lazzaretto of Cagliari, and it is precisely from Cagliari, the Sardinian city where I live and work, that the story begins, to arrive at the lagoon city with a leap back in time of about 400 years. It will be wonderful and I can’t see it‘time to see Venice again and maybe be able to paint again in the streets and views of the most beautiful city in the world”
The author
Stefano Obino was born in Oristano in 1973. After graduating in Modern Literature all‘University of Cagliari he dedicated himself above all to work in the world of communication. Graphic designer, illustrator, web designer, painter, photographer, comics author, he has collaborated as a designer and cartoonist with various island and national magazines including Europress, L‘Objective, Il Gazzettino di Padova, Mono (Tunué ed.), Efesto, Camena editions.
Since 1999 he has signed the comics Genghis Khan and Satiri Filia (for Il Gabbiano a Vapore), the illustrations for the two volumes of‘Eleonora’s Encliclopedia (Eleonora publishing house, edited by Filippo Martinez), he drew illustrations, strips and tables for the Marco Pantani Foundation. He worked with the Municipality of Cagliari for the two issues of the Sardi Junior magazine.
In 2007 he gave life to Nick and Yaya, protagonists of a comic and a line of clothing and gadgets; two years later you received the nomination as best web designer for Nick and Yaya’s site at the Web Italia Award. You also signed the three issues of Nevermate, a cyberfuturist comic and seven issues of the Fantasy comic Sardan I 7 RE; Bartolomeo Salazar. The Last Plague Doctor, The Adventures of Pistone and Sartiglia. Spring legend for Camena Edizioni.
Since 2015 he has been a teacher of Comics, Artistic Anatomy and Digital Graphics for‘Academy d‘art of Cagliari. In the last twenty‘years he has participated in various comics, painting and photography exhibitions throughout Italy.
“Bartholomew Salazar”
Camena editions
Texts, drawings and colors by Stefano Obino
60 illustrated pages
18 euros
