Enrico's blog

Wow, Publishers Weekly sure disliked the Venice Chronicles. Ouch. Ah well, gotta roll with the punches … and take some in the face here and there … (Go here and scroll way down to read the review)

one more watercolor in the works … almost finished, a few areas to retouch …

on my messy kitchen table … a work in progress of a piece for an upcoming artshow in Paris. Indeed the “three trees” are meeting again, this time in Paris: Tadahiro Uesugi, Ronnie del Carmen and I will have an exhibition at the wonderful Galerie Arludik. Opening reception January 27th. More details to follow, but [...]

I ordered the new Gipi book a few days ago, can’t wait for it to get here. LMVDM stands for “La mia vita disegnata male”, “My life badly drawn”. Unfortunately it’s only out in Italy at the moment, but if you don’t mind that you can order it from Coconino Press, like I did. I’ll [...]

Here’s a nice review of the Venice Chronicles at Express from The Washington Post. Interestingly they review they book together with Drawn and Quarterly’s Burma Chronicles, I’ll have to pick that up. And on the VC topic below is a photo that friends Dani and James kindly took at Secret Headquarters, a wonderful book shop [...]

Ronnie del Carmen and I are gonna give a talk at the Asian Art Museum this coming saturday December 6th. The subject: “Totoro Forest – Miyazaki Hayao and his influence on western Animation”. We’ll talk about how the master’s body of work has influenced us personally and how it has managed to inspire a whole [...]