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How far can you go when looking for your way home? That’s what Dante Deboni is trying to figure out. Dante is an Italian cartoonist on the rise who’s overwhelmed by debts and by his own struggling. He’s published a bestseller book that gave him fame and allowed him to live a lascivious life: women, partying, booze and comics. What else?
But the same world that was able to give him so much suddenly turns back on him, so our hero is left all alone. Not even his only real friend, the bartender Bacco – the only one Dante can get booze from for free without getting beaten up – is able to help him now.
Dante is a very confident guy who always has a joke up his sleeve, but now that everyone has left him, even the woman he was supposed to marry, and living alone in a garage, his incurable optimism doesn’t seem to help him. The scorpion is watching him and its claws grind his dreams.
When your life breaks into pieces, what is the only possible solution? Facin… I mean, running away from it! Possibly with a one-way ticket to Australia.
Dante’s idea is that of trying to work as a graphic designer in a video game development studio, and to do so in the middle of breathtaking cliffs, extremely useful Scottish lessons, credit cards hidden in refrigerators, comics travel journals, poisonous spiders, nightmarish monsters and… a breathtaking redhead.
But, in spite of all this, Dante will have to realize that escaping thousands of miles away from home is not enough to feel better. The scorpion has been following him and his poison knows no distance.
Luca Baino, author of this graphic novel, knows it well – this is a terribly autobiographical story, even if a bit romanticized.
The Tamed Scorpio is a real travel journal made in comics. While reading it, many people will laugh at what’s happening to Dante, but they might as well feel moved by it and see themselves in someone that is trying to figure out how to face his fears and… his dreams. Life is a journey, and this is the only lesson that we keep learning throughout our lives.
We said that this is a true story. Ok, maybe in real life there are no giant scorpions to be seen, but… we are sure that everybody has to face their personal demons. Sometimes all you need is being able to draw them.
Luca himself might like to tell us something about it, and share with you a few stories that you will find inside the book!
Luca, though, didn’t take this trip on his own. He fought the scorpion together with Mariano Rose, who worked on the editing phase of the book and helped with the writing, and Zeno Colangelo, one of the new emerging talents of international comics. Through his art you will be drawn into a great adventure in exotic places… both real and imaginary. What else could you desire, especially now that traveling is so difficult?
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The book that you will hold in your hands will be an elegant hardcover edition of more than 160 pages, 17 x 24cm, printed on top quality paper. The book will be printed both in English and in Italian. You can choose the book’s language before the shipping.
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