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Joe Galaxy. Comics, Space Wonders & Horrors

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Dopo il roboante successo di Squeak the Mouse, che ha riportato sotto i riflettori il genio di Massimo Mattioli, ecco un altro classico che non è invecchiato di un giorno e che ha forgiato intere generazioni di artisti, dagli underground più trasgressivi agli idoli del mainstream milionario. Joe Galaxy non è solo una rivisitazione in chiave autoriale del genere fantascientifico, ma il protagonista di una serie di avventure tra le più divertenti mai date alle stampe. Fuori catalogo da decenni, questa edizione definitiva raccoglie tutti gli episodi pubblicati a partire dalla fine degli anni Settanta, quando il personaggio si chiamava ancora Joe Galassia, con una pioggia meteorica di materiale mai riproposto in volume e una storia del tutto inedita, "fatta per gioco" nel 2018.

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2019

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Massimo Mattioli

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Massimo 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.

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March 16, 2025
Chef d'oeuvre ! Tout ce que j'aime dans la BD, l'insolence, l'impertinence, le politiquement incorrect... Je reprends les mots du préfacier, Oscar Glioti : "imaginez un Buck Rogers sous acide (...), ajoutez des monologues de polars hard-boiled, des parodies de Philip K Dick, une esthétique pop qui va des Merrie Melodies à Lichtenstein, en passant par Robert Crumb, Gibert Shelton et Moebius. Multipliez par mille et élevez au carré. Vous êtes encore loin du compte."
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June 16, 2020
Semplicemente irresistibile. Disegni cartooneschi, linguaggio scurrile, sesso spinto a go go, morti splatter passano in secondo piano di fronte all'esplosiva fantasia di Mattioli per i personaggi, le situazioni, le trame (a volte anche decisamente complesse), le soluzioni grafiche o narrative.
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