The program of the second edition
Thursday, September 4, 2025 – Piazza Fontana
– 5:00 pm, INTRO / Silvio Camboni presents: my “comics treasure”
– 5:30 pm, Marcello Toninelli presents the books Manzoniana – I promessi sposi a fumetti, Dante 2000. Return to Helland Zagor 1982–1993. A man from Siena in Darkwood. Independently published, 2024
SPEAKER: Andrea Pau
– 6:30 pm, Paolo Mottura presents the books Moby Dick (new edition) Panini 2025, Gli strani mondi di Topolino Panini 2025 and Circus. Ombre della ribalta Panini 2024
SPEAKER: Emiliano Longobardi
– 7:30 pm, Silvio Camboni presents the books Mickey and the Lost Ocean (new edition) Panini 2024, Mickey and the Land of the Ancients Panini 2021, and the three books from the series The Extraordinary Journey Panini 2021
SPEAKER: Andrea Pau
– 9:45 pm, Film screening: The Road (Casa Piras) – USA, 2009
(Dimension Films, 2929 Productions, Road Rebel, Chockstone Pictures, Nick Wechsler Productions)
Directed by John Hillcoat.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce
Friday, September 5, 2025 – Municipal Playground
– 5:00 pm, INTRO / Davide Barzi: Reading comics to learn how to make them
Event in collaboration with Scuola del Fumetto, founded in Milan in 1979 by Giuseppe Calzolari.
The author recommends essential books for a cartoonist’s background:
Il grande Lupo Alberto. Tutte le prime 1,000 strisce, Silver, 1985;
Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, 1987;
Asterix and the Britons, René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, 1966
– 5:30 pm, Ilaria Palleschi presents the books Buster Tunué 2025 and Nereidi Il Castoro 2025
SPEAKER: Emiliano Longobardi
– 6:30 pm, Davide Barzi presents the books The Return of Dorian Gray Sergio Bonelli Editore 2025 and Don Camillo a fumetti Vol. 23 – Emporio Pitaciò Renoir Comics 2024
SPEAKER: Giovanni Pilloni
– 7:30 pm, Sualzo (Antonio Vincenti) presents the book Il cavaliere inesistente Mondadori, 2024
SPEAKER: Giovanni Pilloni
Saturday, September 6, 2025 – Casa Piras
– 5:00 pm, INTRO / Michele Medda presents: my “comics treasure”
Mort Cinder (1962–64), Héctor Oesterheld & Alberto Breccia, 2008
– 5:30 pm, Otto Gabos presents the book Franz Kafka – Fragments in the Night 24 Ore Cultura 2024
SPEAKER: Emiliano Longobardi
– 6:30 pm, Michele Medda and Pasquale Frisenda present the book The Desert of the Tartars Sergio Bonelli Editore 2024
SPEAKER: Emiliano Longobardi
– 7:30 pm, Otto Gabos reading (words, music and images) from the book I camminatori (new edition) Edizioni 9970 2024
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Piazza Fontana
– 5:00 pm, INTRO / Keiko Ichiguchi presents: my “comics treasure”
Poe no Ichizoku (The Poe Clan), Hagio Moto, 1974–76
– 5:30 pm, Sergio Gerasi presents the books Dylan Dog / The Planet of the Dead Vol. 8 – Una risata vi resusciterà and Eternity Vol. 5 & 6 – Hat as a Beauty Treatment and I giorni non finiscono mai e la vita passa in fretta
Sergio Bonelli Editore 2024
SPEAKER: Stefano Piani
– 6:30 pm, “Author presents author”
Keiko Ichiguchi and Andrea Venturi present the books The Life of Otama Sergio Bonelli Editore 2025 and Tex – The Apache Rebel Sergio Bonelli Editore 2024
– 7:30 pm, Moreno Burattini presents the books I Am Zagor (new edition), Zagor / The Origins Vol. 7 & 8 – The Cursed Swamp Sergio Bonelli Editore 2024 and The League of the Six Nations Sergio Bonelli Editore 2025
SPEAKER: Emiliano Longobardi
EXHIBITIONS
Open all 4 days – 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Casa Piras & Via Margherita
Emiliano Longobardi & friends
Rusty Dogs
Casa Piras & Via Margherita
Otto Gabos
The Worlds of Otto
Casa Piras & Via Margherita
Luca Usai & Bruno Enna
The Mystery of the Giants
FREE MASTERCLASSES
Ex Monte Granatico
Friday, September 5, 2025 – 9:00 am–1:00 pm
Stefano Piani – Literature, Cinema and Comics
Starting from an analysis of the novel The Road (by Cormac McCarthy), the masterclass provides key guidelines for adapting and rewriting a text for different expressive languages.
In this case: The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006) becomes a film (The Road, John Hillcoat, 2009) and a graphic novel (La strada, Manu Larcenet, 2024).
Ages 15 and up
Saturday, September 6, 2025 – 9:00 am–1:00 pm
Davide Barzi – Stories Never End
Starting from the graphic novel The Return of Dorian Gray (by Davide Barzi and Werner Maresta), linked to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the masterclass explores some of the ways a screenwriter can imagine and create a sequel to a great literary classic.
Ages 15 and up
In case of rain, scheduled events will take place at the Ex Montegranatico, Via Margherita 18, Pimentel (SU).
Note: During all afternoon and evening events over the four days of the festival, artist Bruno Olivieri will create satirical and/or humorous cartoons live, using a graphic tablet connected to a projector, allowing the audience to follow the entire creative process during each event.
