NUES – MEDITERRANEAN COMICS AND CARTOONS FESTIVAL – MACOMER – 13 TO 16 DECEMBER

From December 13 to 16 in Macon (NU) returns Nues,
the festival of comics and the Mediterranean.
In the fourth edition focus on comics in the Maghreb,
with international guests, exhibitions, presentations, round tables.
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Back Nues, the international festival dedicated to comic books and cartoons of the Mediterranean, created and directed by Bepi Vigna (one of the “fathers” of Nathan Never, the lucky hero of the publisher Bonelli). After an issue in Nuoro (in 2008) and two in Cagliari (in 2009 and 2010), the initiative organized by the International Centre for Comic Strip Art, meanwhile become biennial, for its fourth plant the tents December 13 to 16 in Macomer (NU).

And ‘once again a full program dedicated to “clouds” of the author fielded by the festival this time pointing his magnifying glass North Africa and its cartoonist, having explored in previous editions, cultures of Greece, Yugoslavia and the Middle East through the works of designers and illustrators.

The premises of the former barracks walls are about to become, for four days, dense, in a “citadel of comics” (open to the public from 9 am to 13.30 and from 16.30 to 20.45): Filigosa are taking place in Hall presentations, meetings with authors, round tables, while the pavilion Tamuli will be the home of the exhibitions, seven, and laboratories. Available to visitors is also a reading area for children, a bookshop (organized by the Library of Emmepi Macomer) and a space of encounter between established and emerging authors (or even unknown) for which he coined the name ” Nuews “.

Enriches the program, of course, also the presence of a series of protagonists of what has been termed the “ninth art”. Since the international guests: the cartoonist and illustrator for children Yassine Ellil, author of “Goodbye Ben Ali,” the first book published satirical in Tunisia after the fall of the regime, the designer Gihèn Ben Mahmoud Abou-Seoud Messadi, President the Salon de la Bande de Dessinée Tazarka, long-lived comics festival which celebrated its sixteenth edition in August. They will animate the substantial series of events dedicated to the complex and lively reality of Tunisia, the same as in December 2010 triggered the revolutionary period of the “Arab Spring” across the Maghreb.

But the authors from the North African country will not be alone. Indeed, a large number of colleagues of art, characters in various ways the movement of Italian comic, enriches the program of this year’s festival. A program to browse all have a strong guests as an illustrator and cartoonist Cagliari Andrea Serra, named “Best Artist” at the British Fantasy Awards 2012, Otto Gabos (born Mario Rivelli, he cagliaritano of birth), a leading exponent of fumettismo Italian, semiotician Franciscu Seddon, Massimo and Massimo Fabbri Simbula, members of indie digital publishing platform dedicated to comics “Manicomix,” author and professor of history Gianni Marilotti, the publisher Dario Maiore.

Just two of the authors present a Nues, Andrea Serra and Yassine Ellil, will be delivered within the festival, the prize Ennio Zedda 2012, recognition of entitled to one of the great illustrators of the twentieth century Sardinian (Zedda was born in Macon in 1910). The award, in its second edition, is organized by the City of Macon, in collaboration with the International Centre for Comic Strip Art of Cagliari.

Among the most important initiatives of this edition, Nues pays homage (with a meeting and an exhibition) in Edina Altara, extraordinary figure of an artist and illustrator from his Sassari, in the first half of the last century, was able to assert its work in time not easy for female creativity.

Yet to be reported in the bill “Saints comic”, a meeting between three Sardinian designers, Roberto Lai, Sandro Dessi and Tullio Meloni, who made many graphic novel devoted to mystical figures, respectively Sant’Antioco, San Paolo and Fra ‘Nicholas by Gesturi.

Also new this year, Nues speak on Macomer to the whole world: all meetings and round tables of the festival – from the opening ceremony on Thursday, 13 to 17 – can be followed online via a live stream visible on the site and on the page facebook festival.

Accompanying the exhibition a special issue of the “Papers Nues” dedicated to comics in the Maghreb, written by Bepi Vigna and published by Taphros.

All events of the festival are free entry and free.

The fourth edition of Nues was created in collaboration with the UNLA (Centro Cultural Services Department) and the Association of Macon Verbavoglio, and the contribution of the Education, Culture, Information, Entertainment and Sport of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia of the City of Macon.

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