Conversation with comics artist David Marchetti

When and Where

Friday, April 28, 2023 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Online via Zoom - https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81634098673

Speakers

David Marchetti

Description

Conversation with the comics artist David Marchetti about his sensational debut work, "Uno" ["One"] (Hollow Press, 2021 - Nominated for "Micheluzzi" prize as best first work at Napoli Comicon 2022), his creative process, his experience as an artist and his approach to the medium.  The conversation will be in Italian with simultaneous translation into English.

David Marchetti was born in Pietrasanta (Italy) in 1992. He graduated in 2019 in the course of illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. As a thesis work he created a book of about 400 pages entitled Uno(One). He recently started a collaboration with the Hollow Press publishing house which after reading Uno, decided to invest in the young author and make his first work public in 2021. He is currently working to his second project l'Osservatore(the Observer). 

This lecture is co-organized by the Toronto Italian Comics Studies (TICS) Study Group and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Toronto.

To attend this event, please connect at this Zoom link.

Sponsors

Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies - University of Toronto, Toronto Italian Comics Studies (TICS), Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Toronto