Enrico’s blog

James Jean certainly doesn’t need any introduction, he sure is taking the art world by storm. But I just found out about Rift, a wonderful book he’s made with Chronicles. And it just blows my mind, beautiful!!!

What an unlikely trio uh? But I’m currently reading these three books. They are all three wonderful reads. “I Fellini” is irreverent and funny, “Open” is a total page turner and “The Little Prince” in Italian is a treat.

I did some book shopping that made me quite happy this weekend. The first is a kids book I got at Konokuniya by the prolific Taro Gomi, Kingyouga nigeta. The Goldfish escaped. Been really loving gomi’s work, it’s so much fun to share it with Fio. I was also really impressed to read that this [...]

Another amazingly talented co-worker here Pixar, Sanjay Patel has just released a fantastic book Ramayana: Devine Loophole with Chronicles Books. This is a four year in the making labor of love for Sanjay and it shows, every page is filled with an astounding amount of beautifully designed detail. I was totally blown away by his [...]

Great news, “A, kikoetayo” (“I can hear”) the beautiful japanese kids book that Dice illustrated and his mom wrote is available for purchase at StuartNgBooks, don’t miss this gem and the nice little special artwork that comes with it. Details here on Dice’s blog.

Finally Amazon has the Venice Chronicles in stock again … for the cost conscious, and who is not lately, it’s still the best deal you can find. And don’t miss this other wonderful book, Fio’s favorite!

You can read a recent interview I had with Jeremie Noyer mostly regarding the Venice Chronicles, atAnimated Views in english or atMedia Magic in french. Cheers.

I am so happy for Ronnie with his brand new book coming out in matter of days. My name is Dug is written by Kiki Thorpe and illustrated by Ronnie del Carmen, it features one of the stars of the upcoming Pixar film UP: Dug. It’s a beauty of a book and I can’t wait [...]

I can’t wait for this book to be out. Miyazaki’s Shuppatsu ten is getting a US release by Viz in July. The book contains writings and essays about film-making and philosophy by MiyaSan. Read more about what the book contains in this wonderful post at GhibliWorld.com. And since we’re on the subject, I was overjoyed [...]

“Yuppi!” means “Yay!” in italian … strange word … but anyway the reason for my joy is that I just received in the mail Gipi’s latest book: “La mia vita disegnata male“!!! I read it last night from front to back and I was just blown away, what an amazing read! He weaves very personal [...]