NAPLES COMICON 2008

La tenth edition of Naples COMICON - International Comic Show, dedicated to MAGENTA and its main variation, the RED, will take place, as usual, in the splendid setting of the sixteenth-century Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, for the first time in 4 days, from 24 to 27 April 2008.

Also this year, the Salone will be organized on the two floors of the Castle: in the space of ambulacra on the first floor with the Market Area, the Auditorium, the Video Rooms, the Meeting Room, the PRO Area and much more; and in the space of High prisonon the second floor, entirely dedicated to the main exhibitions of the Salone and which will be open until the closing of the Salone until 30 May.

Napoli COMICON, in fact, has been part of the official programming of the Castel Sant Elmo/ Polo Museale of Naples and was born with the patronage of the Campania Region, the Province and the Municipality of Naples and is promoted by the Special Superintendence for the Neapolitan Museum Complex.

Great expectation for the Guests, the exhibition exhibitions and the many Events branded 2008. After 2007 dedicated to Cyan, in the chromatic path of the 4 basic colors of typographic printing, 2008 will be centered on the emotional and symbolic shades of Magenta, and therefore of its main reading, Red.

Lorenzo Mattotti, one of the world's leading cartoonists and illustrators, has
created, as you can see from the website, the official image of the Neapolitan Salone,
repeating the work done for 2007 by Enki Bilal for the Cyan.

Also for this edition the program, divided into Exhibitions, Meetings, Projections
and Autographs, it will be very rich. How broad and consolidated the presence of Authors will be
e National and international operators, increasingly rich and qualified for years, e
more and more distinctive character of the Naples Show.

Among the many Exhibitions present at the Salone, we anticipate a few:
the first anthological dedicated to the great and late Attilio Micheluzzi;
the monographic with over one hundred originals by the French erotic author George Pichard;
the tribute to Lorenzo Mattotti and his innovative graphic novel "Fuochi".

Among the many Italian and international guests of the 2008 edition, they confirmed
their presence, in addition to Lorenzo Mattotti:
from France Georges Wolinski, a very famous Tunisian author;
from the United States Terry Moore, author of "Strangers in Paradise" and the young author
specializing in superheroes John Cassaday.

In relation to the solid network of collaborations with many international events,
then, Naples COMICON hosts a different festival every year, among the largest in the sector:
after the Barcelona Motor Show hosted in 2007, this year it's up to the important
German Comic Salon in Erlangen.

We then underline the growing importance of the PRO Area, reserved for operators
and professionals, national and international, now in its sixth year.
Proposed in 2003 by Napoli COMICON, the PRO Area was an authentic innovation
in the national comics scene. This year it will be presented in a version
even more equipped and comfortable, equipped with wi-fi connection, numerous workstations
PC and the classic free bar.

Another innovation of the 2008 edition is the presence, inside the Salone, of one
review entirely dedicated to Animation Cinema, CartooNA, which will present in
the large and usual section dedicated to Animation is more organic and visible.

COMICON is not just Comics, Visual Arts, Cinema and Animation. But also Music,
of great quality. Since 2006, the Phonotheque of via Morghen has been experimenting with
good feedback from the spectators of the Festival, a series of DJ sets that will
take place during the opening hours of the show. In 2008, to celebrate ten years of
COMICON. Fonoteca presents the third edition of Co'MicON, real
minifestival with lots of live music, performances, presentations by artists and DJ sets.
As soon as the doors of COMICON close, those of Co'MicON, in the United States, open
spaces of the ambulatories of Castel Sant'Elmo, until late at night!

The Napoli COMICON billboard is also enriched with the inevitable Comicon
Cosplay Challenge, the Future Future exhibition that interprets new trends
of the world of Italian comics and presents the best that is stirred on the scene
national, the IMAGO Competition involving schools, the many events of COMIC (ON) OFF
which will take place outside the walls of the Castle and which will animate centers
cultural, institutions and bodies of the regional territory, as well as meeting and local points
of the Neapolitan territory. Do not forget the prestigious Attilio Micheluzzi Awards-
COMICON for works published during the year 2007.

All this and much more at Napoli COMICON 2008, in the name of power
metaphorical of RED!

Here are the main events "outside" the Castle

As for last year, the calendar of exhibitions and events that will make up the program is also very rich COMIC (ON) OFF, that is the exhibition spaces and the many events scattered around Naples that will collaborate with COMICON to make our city the capital of world comics, for the period April-May.
In relation to the solid network of collaborations with many world festivals, the Naples Salone has decided to host a different festival every year, together with its geographical area of reference: this year, the host festival will Erlangen Comic-Salon, an important German event dedicated to the Ninth Art, with which it will be set up, al Goethe-Institut of Naples the fantasy exhibition Pose mit Schwert, taken from the fantasy masterpiece "The Chronicles of the Immortals" by Wolfgang Hohlbein by Thomas Von Kummant e Benjamin von Eckartsberg, from 16th April al 24st May. At the same time COMICON will organize a collective of the best Italian artists of authorial and narrative comics entitled Comic Heute!, for the May edition of Erlangen, from 22 al 25st May.
Relations with the Institutes of Foreign Languages and Cultures very active in the Neapolitan cultural panorama are consolidated:Instituto Cervantes an important collective of the new Spanish comic will be exhibited, selected by the author Miguel Angel Martin. The exhibition entitled La otra mirada del comic español contemporaneo will see 10 young Hispanic designers and their new way of looking at the Ninth Art, from 7 al 24th April. All 'Institut Français Le Grenoble instead it goes on stage La Bande Dessinée célèbre les 40 ans de Mai '68, from 21th April al 31st May: another collective of authors celebrating the important anniversary, through a special issue, of the historic magazine Pile, standard-bearer of the author's comics of the 70s / 80s, in collaboration with the French publishing house Dargaud. Furthermore, always on stage at Grenoble, the original experiment by Artist's residence, which will see the transalpine author Mathieu Sapin in Naples, committed to living and describing our city for a month, as well as collaborating with Italian School of Comix, for an active workshop with students, also exhibited during COMICON.
Important the exhibition at Feltrinelli with the volume of Luca Genovese and Luca Vanzella which celebrates the biography of Luigi Tenco, edited by BeccoGiallo (by 23 30 to April); also in this case it is a collaboration with a partner festival, BilBOlbul of Bologna. Also in the bookshop in Piazza dei Martiri, the latest satirical work, published by Lavieri, by Careless (Simona Bassano del Tufillo), cartoons on the hot topic of garbage, in the exhibition Star Trash. The exhibition, which began on Tuesday 1st, will be open until 22.
As always, the Comiconian commitment ofAcademy of Fine Arts, where, in addition to the usual meeting with the authors, there will be a particular exhibition of Sara Colaone, taken from the book Monsieur Bordigon, from 21th April al 10st May.
Two comics will be exhibited in local Neapolitan historians: the volume of Reinhard Kleist su Johnny Cash, on show at Sound library, and the Franco-Italian magazine Action 30, exhibited with Giuseppe Palumbo at Trip in via Martucci, with a performance-debate to be seen on 24th April.
Two Neapolitan galleries are confirmed as partners of COMICON, setting up comic and illustration exhibitions in April-May: in particular the gallery HDE, will host the magnificent staff of the guest of honor of the Salone, Lorenzo Mattotti, with his work Carnival, on display since 18th April al 16st May; and the little one ZeDesign, in piazza Bellini, with Kufia-100 designers for Palestine.
Still other exhibitions and events will be located in other historical places and shops, such as the restaurant Umberto, which has always been the site of the Comic Menu experiment, or at the same Comix school or the library Comix Factory in Caserta; and still other events, meetings with authors and editorial presentations, such as at the FNAC, where the philosopher Giulio Giorello, our juror for the Attilio Micheluzzi-COMICON awards, together with the co-author Pier Luigi Gaspa presents the volume Science in the clouds Sunday 27th April at 18.30.

Another mention for the inclusion in the OFF billboard also of the homage that COMICON will pay to the 50th anniversary Capodimonte Museum, with an important exhibition of new and published comics dedicated to the relationship with the Arts, and the Site Specific experiment conducted by the authors Andrea Bruno and Maurizio Ribichini; and yet another collective exhibition which COMICON collaborates with in May at the international gallery MondoPOP of Rome, on the transfigurative theme of the Mona Lisa.
We end up in style with an exhibition-sale of Vincent Cucca, in collaboration with GG Studio, to the important Galerie 9e Art in Paris: for the first time Naples COMICON closes its doors with two international appointments, at the Comic-Salon in Erlangen and at the Parisian gallery of Bernard Mahé.

We then close this communication with the news that the genius Frank Cho will not be among the guests of COMICON, for imperative personal reasons.

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