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Alessandro Bazan: Jazz Paintings
What can a Sicilian painter in love with jazz and drawing do? Sketch melancholy stories--blue, improvised, dissonant. These strong, deep paintings, produced between the early 90s and today, are a fine tribute to the music that Alessandro Bazan treasures. And like Charlie Parker's solos, once they've gotten into your head, they stay with you.
80 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2006
About the author
Massimo Mattioli
30 books5 followersMassimo Mattioli (1943-2019) was an Italian cartoonist, illustrator and screenwriter.
Born in Rome, Mattioli debuted in the middle of the 60's with the comic Vermetto Sigh for the magazine 'Il Vittorioso'. After some cartooning experiences in London and Paris, in the early 70's he returned to Italy and created the character Pasquino for the newspaper 'Paese Sera'. He also began a collaboration with the comics magazine 'Il Giornalino', that lasted more than forty years. Therein, he published Pinky (1973-2014), a whimsical and surrealist strip about a pink rabbit reporter.
In 1977, together with Stefano Tamburini and Marco D'Alessandro, Mattioli founded the seminal underground magazine 'Cannibale'. He remained a frequent contributor to both 'Cannibale' and its successor magazine 'Frigidaire' throughout the 80's. In this period, Mattioli adapted his surrealist cartooning style for a mature audience, most notably with the series Joe Galaxy (1979-1983) and Squeak the Mouse (1982-1984). The latter remains his best-known work internationally. A sequel Squeak the Mouse 2 was published in 1992, and a third volume appeared in 2019 in the collected Squeak the Mouse by Coconino Press.
Mattioli was awarded several prizes, including the Yellow Kid Prize at the Lucca Comics Festival in 1975 and the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize at the Napoli Comicon in 2010 and 2011.
As an illustrator, Mattioli worked for advertisement and music album covers. Additionally, he wrote short stories and screenplays for cinema and television.
Massimo Mattioli died in 2019, at age 75.
Born in Rome, Mattioli debuted in the middle of the 60's with the comic Vermetto Sigh for the magazine 'Il Vittorioso'. After some cartooning experiences in London and Paris, in the early 70's he returned to Italy and created the character Pasquino for the newspaper 'Paese Sera'. He also began a collaboration with the comics magazine 'Il Giornalino', that lasted more than forty years. Therein, he published Pinky (1973-2014), a whimsical and surrealist strip about a pink rabbit reporter.
In 1977, together with Stefano Tamburini and Marco D'Alessandro, Mattioli founded the seminal underground magazine 'Cannibale'. He remained a frequent contributor to both 'Cannibale' and its successor magazine 'Frigidaire' throughout the 80's. In this period, Mattioli adapted his surrealist cartooning style for a mature audience, most notably with the series Joe Galaxy (1979-1983) and Squeak the Mouse (1982-1984). The latter remains his best-known work internationally. A sequel Squeak the Mouse 2 was published in 1992, and a third volume appeared in 2019 in the collected Squeak the Mouse by Coconino Press.
Mattioli was awarded several prizes, including the Yellow Kid Prize at the Lucca Comics Festival in 1975 and the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize at the Napoli Comicon in 2010 and 2011.
As an illustrator, Mattioli worked for advertisement and music album covers. Additionally, he wrote short stories and screenplays for cinema and television.
Massimo Mattioli died in 2019, at age 75.
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