Catania, Zerocalcare is the first great guest of Etna Comics 2024

E’ Zerocalcare the first great guest of the twelfth edition of Etna Comics 2024, The expectation is growing in Catania for the tenth edition of Etna Comics, The expectation is growing in Catania for the tenth edition of Etna Comics, scheduled from 6 al 9 June at the “Le Ciminiere” exhibition center in Catania. The well-known cartoonist created the Etna Comics poster 2024 which reproduces Pirandell's masks, together with the famous Nobel Prize for Literature. A choice that combines the staff's intention to open a new course linked to the great Sicilian authors, with that of entrusting an illustrious protagonist of literature like Pirandello to the pencil of an artist capable like few others of representing visions and contradictions of the human being.

How the writer and playwright from Girgenti loved to scrutinize and clear the abysses and gray areas of the human being, so Zerocalcare, present Thursday 6 It's Friday 7 June at the Bao Publishing stand, he knows how to put his finger on the wounds of hypocrisy, managing to give voice to that complex and impossible to fully understand mechanism that is the human soul.

«Now we are aiming at the great Sicilian authors, starting from our Nobel Prize, Luigi Pirandello. He who – said the director of Etna Comics, Antonio Mannino - with his pioneering vision he was able to revolutionize theatrical dramaturgy and that no one could represent better than an artist like Zerocalcare. A storyteller who knows how to analyze the human soul through his characters, projections of himself. A bit like Pirandello did, but in a modern key".

Etna Comics therefore turns the spotlight on Pirandell's metaphor of the mask, more relevant than ever, in a reality in which image in the social world now seems to predominate. Where identity dematerializes and we talk about ourselves in a new way. Where the mask tends to prevail over the face and the truth is “one, none, one hundred thousand”.

Gives Villa Maria you can easily reach Catania by car and by train (the railway station is just a few meters away) in about 20 minutes.