– Long lines at the BaoPublishing stand for the now legendary copies of Zerocalcare, who tirelessly donate time and drawings for its fans and ever-growing comic book reader base to beat the heat and boom in attendance at the Torino Book Fair.
Super awaited his meeting today, May 21, in which he will talk about his next comic book, a graphic journalism sui generis that is a kind of sequel to “Kobane Calling” that will be released in autumn 2022 and of which reveals at the end the title live. ‘No Sleep Until Shengal’
“It’s a kind of travelogue that I did in June last year in northern Iraq, specifically in a region called Shengal, where the Yezidi come from, a population that belongs to Kurdistan but belongs to a pre-Islamic religion. A minority that has been repeatedly massacred and discriminated against over the years. In 2014 there was a very serious massacre by Isis in which many women and girls were raped.
That is why the Ezidis fled this region and then reconquered it with the help of the Kurds and have had a kind of autonomy in this area ever since. This autonomy, based on the principles of the Kurdish revolution, that is, on the liberation of women, the coexistence of all peoples and self-defense, is currently being threatened by the Iraqi state, which wants to retake this territory, and Turkey, which is bombing it incessantly from a year the killing of the civilian population, but also the representatives of the Autonomy and the Autonomous Administration, because this enclave linked to the Kurds does not exist”, ANSA Zerocalcare calculates that from moment to moment there is that the autonomy is in danger from these forces , who don’t want to be swept away, my new book served to shed some light on that specific experience,” the best-selling cartoonist underscores.
But is it a sequel to Kobane Calling, whose 2020 bestseller came out in an updated edition? “It’s very difficult to understand what the sequel is when talking about true stories because they are stories that never end. When you’ve finished writing a book, that doesn’t mean things don’t move on. Now Turkey is the biggest threat to this area.” It’s important to me to give continuity to this thing, otherwise it seems like you just used the stuff to sell a book and then moved on to something else.
If you care about something, stick with it.”
What about the war in Ukraine? “I don’t want to talk about it because I’m not an expert. Although I was there in Kurdistan and know what we are talking about, on February 23rd most of us discovered Ukraine and the Ukraine conflict. 2022. Already a lot of people are saying things, I don’t want to be in this choir. I can only repeat what I read in the newspapers or on TV. Obviously I’m as concerned as any sane person, normal,” explains Zerocalcare as fans wait in long lines of up to 5 hours to get copies autographed.
After the success of the animated series Tear Along the Edges, any other TV projects? “There’s a new story I’m doing for Netflix that isn’t Season 2 of Tear Along the Edges, it’s a whole new thing with the same principle as the books. Instead of making the sequel, I’m trying to make a story about something. “Others, however, with my characters. Netflix does my family justice when I tell you what it’s about. We’re at a pretty advanced stage, but the animation times are long.”
Of signing copies, he says when fans are demanding it: “I’m doing this to be on par with karma, and because then I’m actually doing a job where I’m home alone, it’s super alienating, no contact.” to have to people. It’s a dimension. human,” he says. Tomorrow, May 22nd, he will be live with other artists to breathe life into an animated film. (HAND).
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