Enrico's blog

I am almost on the home stretch on these watercolors for the upcoming exhibition in Paris. Here’s a few recent iphone shots from my kitchen table, the last few pieces. By the way while in France Ronnie I will also be attending Angouleme’s Festival International de la Bande Desinée. We’re really looking forward to meeting [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve known of these books for a while now, Ronnie was singing their praises a while back and man was he right. After reading Gus I finally broke down and had to get to these other books by Christophe Blain. What amazingly compelling story he has created here! Stunning drawing and wonderful writing that make [...]

I had a nice chat with Jen Contino of the Pulse. We talked about making the Venice Chronicles and more … check

The Alternative Press Expo this past weekend was really fun. It’s a tiring weekend but it sure felt good to be back in the swing of it. We met a ton of really wonderful people and we sold one hundred Totoro Forest Books! They go like candy, pretty amazing. Venice Chronicles did well too and [...]

Here it is! The ALTERNATIVE PRESS EXPO is happening this weekend in San Francisco’s Concourse center. Venice Chronicles is officially debuting at this convention and I will be sharing the table with friends Ronnie del Carmen, Dice Tsutsumi and Scott Morse. Tons of great books like Paper Biscuit, Out of Picture and Tiger!Tiger!Tiger!. We even [...]

Just got this book up in Portland and wow, what an amazing read. Don’t miss this, you might have heard of or read Blain’s Isaac the Pirate, this book is another gem. He takes the genre and turns it upside down, pushes the stuff of westerns way in the background and focuses on clueless men [...]

It’s become tradition for us selfpublishing friends here at Pixar to take photos of the opening of the first box of books. Here’s some coverage of it all, even with a shot of the first customer: Nate Stanton! Yay, thanks Nate. In the second to last shot, you can see the Venice Chronicles in good [...]