The festival dedicated to comics comes to an end with a day packed with events. After three days of great national and international guests, workshops in schools and theatrical readings, it closes on Sunday 1st December with a fourth day just as intense for the second edition of the festival di:segni , organized by the Alghero Fumetto association with the support of the Sardinia Region , the Chamber of Commerce of Sassari - Salude & Trigu call, the Municipality of Alghero and the Alghero Foundation .
Among the unmissable events of the day, two tributes to the genius of Dino Buzzati and in particular to his literary masterpiece, “The Desert of the Tartars” (from 8:15 pm at the Teatro Civico). The first is the presentation of the intense and refined comic book reinterpretation of the novel, by Michele Medda and Pasquale Frisenda and published by Sergio Bonelli Editore. The second is the musical reading Uno spiraglio di luce scendeva , entrusted to the voice and stage presence of Gigio Alberti , one of the most beloved and versatile actors of Italian cinema and theater, star of films such as Marrakech Express, Mediterraneo e Sud by Salvatores, L'ora di religione and Esterno Notte by Bellocchio, TV series and theater plays, including the brilliant comedy “Vicini di casa” with Amanda Sandrelli. Musical accompaniment by the Alghero pianist Raimondo Dore . (Free admission upon reservation at the link: The Tartar Steppe + A Glimmer of Light Descending Tickets, Sun, 01 Dec 2024 at 20:15 | Eventbrite )
The festival opens in the morning at 11.30 in the Cyrano bookshop (Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 2) with a meeting dedicated to boys and girls: the Milanese writer and screenwriter Diego Cajelli , an esteemed author of Dylan Dog, Dampyr, Zagor, Nathan Never, Diabolik, presents “The Curse of the Tear Mine” (Mondadori), set in New France in 1665, with eleven-year-old Jackie Trudeau as the protagonist on an adventurous journey on Captain Black Bill's galleon.
At 5 pm the festival moves to the Conference Room of the Alghero Foundation (largo Lo Quarter). The young Alghero cartoonist Martina Mura, aka Maya , talks with Sara Pilloni about School of Love (Becco Giallo), a successful series of novels about love and friendship, aimed in particular at a teenage audience, of which Maya is the author together with Beka, the stage name of the scriptwriter couple Caroline Roque and Bertrand Escaich. The comics courses of the Accademia KÉRBEROS - Summer School de l'Alguer are a brilliant reality born recently and aim to train future generations of illustrators and scriptwriters with courses and workshops dedicated to the visual arts, scriptwriting and writing comics. This will be discussed at 5.45 pm with Mauro Muroni, Diego Cajelli and Giovanni Bufalini , who will present an intensive technical and practical course, scheduled from 16 to 22 December in Alghero, dedicated to visual narration between cinema and comics with a focus on the spaghetti western .
The common thread of the second edition of the festival is the intersections and contaminations between comics and other arts. In particular, comics and literature meet in the works of Sualzo , a comics artist with a poetic and refined style, author of engaging books for children that have won important awards. In Alghero he will be in conversation with Raffale Sari of “ L'improvvisatore” (Tunué), with which he received the award for best screenplay at the Festi'BD di Moulins 2009 and was ranked among the five finalists of the Micheluzzi Award 2010, and of “Il cavaliere inesistente” (Mondadori), a comics reinterpretation of the famous novel by Italo Calvino.