Xtina sunday comic-strip, waiting for the second book.
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
volume 2 scheduled for fall 2016
Xtina Sunday comic-strip
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
volume 2 scheduled for fall 2016
Xtina comic-strip created by Monica at Festivaletteratura Mantova
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
volume 2 scheduled for fall 2016
Festivaletteratura is a literary festival, held in Mantua, Italy, since 1997. Its peculiar formula is to host five days of small-sized lectures by authors from all over the world. The event is run mostly by volunteers, numbering around 700 in total. The lectures are hosted in historical places and squares, and during the five days of the fair there are about two hundred events. The low-profile style has in time attracted many big names of literature, along with Nobel Prize winners. The attendance to the events roughly matches the population of the city, so it is necessary to book tickets well in advance. In 2007, the fair celebrated its tenth edition. The 2005 fair was the set for the 2005 Tinto Brass movie Monamour, in which it was depicted the peculiarity of the exhibit. The 2011 edition had seen for the first time the public exposition of the world famous Lovers of Valdaro.
Xtina comic-strip created by Monica at Festivaletteratura Mantova
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
volume 2 scheduled for fall 2016
Festivaletteratura is a literary festival, held in Mantua, Italy, since 1997. Its peculiar formula is to host five days of small-sized lectures by authors from all over the world. The event is run mostly by volunteers, numbering around 700 in total. The lectures are hosted in historical places and squares, and during the five days of the fair there are about two hundred events. The low-profile style has in time attracted many big names of literature, along with Nobel Prize winners. The attendance to the events roughly matches the population of the city, so it is necessary to book tickets well in advance. In 2007, the fair celebrated its tenth edition. The 2005 fair was the set for the 2005 Tinto Brass movie Monamour, in which it was depicted the peculiarity of the exhibit. The 2011 edition had seen for the first time the public exposition of the world famous Lovers of Valdaro.
Anna & Mathias volume 2 scheduled for fall-winter 2016.
Adventure in Venice “un Inferno a Venezia”.
Books in Italian, French, English, Spanish.
SERIE: Mathias
STORY/ART: Giancarlo Malagutti
GENRE: Adventure/Mystery/Thriller/Fantasy
TARGET READERSHIP: All ages, both sexes
SETTING: Well known and characteristic cities and locations in Italy
SET IN: The Present Day
STRUCTURE & TONE OF THE STORIES: The two protagonists in this series are
children and, despite their superhuman potentialities, they behave as such. They always
travel accompanied by an adult, they never go out late at night and wherever they stay
they’re in the company of relatives. It is within this context that the storyline develops in
its own way. They’re not out to put the world to rights, yet they are endowed with a
strong sense of justice and they seek to do good in the face of evil.
COLLECTION: Each episode is 44 pages long and is a complete and free-standing story.
Reading them in order is recommended. In full colors.
5 episodes ready for print.
THE PROTAGONISTS:
Mathias is a blond 10 year-old. He’s knowledgeable for his age as a result of his
somewhat cosmopolitan education.
Anna is a freckly 10 year-old redhead. Orphaned at an early age she has an elderly
bedridden granny. Lively, intelligent and with a searching mind, she’s the one with the
sense of humour and sharp one liners.
ARTIST BIO: Giancarlo Malagutti began his career in 1973 by drawing cartoons for the monthly publication Horror. He has worked alongside Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon on several cartoons. Malagutti has drawn several one off short stories for Intrepido, Monello and Albo TV and has inked the drawings of Sergio Zaniboni for Diabolik which is where he began to write scripts. In 1981 he began freelancing for IF, working on Japanese cartoons including Princess Zaffiro, Tiger Man and Bia. In 1982 he created the series The Reporters drawn by Zaniboni for Orient Express. After having written a story line for Martin Mystère he worked as a commercial artist for some twelve years until 1994 when he resumed his work in cartoons, writing stories for Lupo Alberto, Cattivik and Mystère. Most recently he has been working on the characters of Chris Carella in collaboration with Sergio Zaniboni and both the drawings and script for Mathias www.mathias.is.it
(For a short biography visit http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/malagutti_giancarlo.htm)
Personnages principaux:
Mathias est un normal garcon de 9 ans, blondin, mignon. fils de parents aisés qui, à cause de leur travail, lui font parcourir le vaste monde. Il a une bonne culture, malgré son âge, grâce a sa formation cosmopolite. En certaines situations, spécialement lorsque il est sous stress, il réussit à modifier (pour des petites choses) la réalité.
Anna: fillette de 9 ans, cheveux roux et lentilles. Orpheline, elle vit avec une grand-mère agée immobilisée au lit. Tres éveillée, intelligente et curieuse. C’est elle qui s’occupe de sa grand-mère. Elle vit avec l’épée de Damoclés d’être envoyée dans un orphelinat et sa grand-mère expediée à l’hospice de pauvres. très indigente, son unique revenu est la pension de sa grand-mère. Elle parâit seulement dans cet épisode mais elle peut revenir.
Texte/dessins: Giancarlo Malagutti
Genre: mystery/humour/ fantasy
Target: 8/12 ans (mais adultes aussi)
Recostitution: World
Epoque: de notre temps
Giancarlo Malagutti.
Il fait ses débuts en 1973 en réalisant les crayons de quelques histires pour la publication mensuelle Horror (Ed.Astoria). Il dessine quelques histoire sur L’Intrepido, L’Albo et Il Monello (Ed. Universo), Il encre les crayons de S.Zaniboni pour Diabolik.
En 1981 il réalise la version en bandes dessinées des séries télévisées de Princesse Saphir, Homme Tigre, Bia. En 1982 il crée la série “The Reporters”
dessinée par Sergio Zaniboni. Aprés avoir écrit pour Martin Mystére (Sergio Bonelli Editore), il se consacre au travail publicitaire et quitte pour le moment l’activité d’auteur de BD qu’il reprend quelques années aprés en écrivant des scénarios de Lupo Alberto et Cattivik (Acme/macchia nera) et Martin Mystére
Xtina for earthquake. Amatrice is a town and comune in the province of Rieti, in northern Lazio (central Italy), and the seat of the food-agricultural base of Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park. The town was devastated by a powerful earthquake on 24 August 2016.
Archaeological discoveries show a human presence in the area of Amatrice since prehistoric times, and the remains of Roman buildings and tombs have also been found. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area became part of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto, included in the comitatus of Ascoli. The town of Matrice is mentioned in the papers of the Abbey of Farfa in 1012 as commanding the confluence of theTronto and Castellano rivers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatrice
Xtina comic-strip created by Monica
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
Monica Literary Agency Opening Office in Santa Monica, fall 2016
Xtina the mid-august comic-strip, Xtina is a comic-strip created by Monica
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
Xtina the first strip of august, Xtina is a comic-strip created by Monica
Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.
Dalla presentazione di Gianfranco Goria:
Eccola qui, Monica (figlia d’arte, mi dicono, con una naturale propensione, si direbbe, per le strip statunitensi, così efficaci, così difficili da fare bene). Eccola col suo tratto essenziale e pulito (perfetto per la rete, ma pubblicato sulla carta stampata), da leggere con leggerezza per ricavarne un sorriso e qualche pensiero intelligente.
Al momento l’autrice ha appena qualche anno in più della protagonista della sua striscia, XTINA, lavoratrice museuale diciannovenne ingabbiata in quel banco informazioni che, se da un lato la rende libera e autonoma, dall’altro la costringe a fuggire costantemente con la fantasia (da ex impiegato di concetto, come la capisco…). L’arte arriva fino a quel banco, anche se magari non nel modo che la ragazza avrebbe voluto, ma non è l’unica a desiderare di più per la propria vita: c’è anche, per dire, un giovane in divisa che, per ora, sembra davvero fare tanta fatica a trovare quel che cerca… Ma, no, non ci si deve rassegnare! Oh, no. C’è tutta una vita davanti! In fondo “un anno nuovo è un foglio bianco tutto da scrivere”… Oh… cioé… insomma… cestini permettendo.
Immagino le sue giovani lettrici, immedesimarsi con estrema facilità. Immagino i padri delle sue lettrici, riconoscere (e forse scoprire) le proprie figlie. Immagino altre strisce e altre ancora che verranno e mi chiedo se XTINA crescerà anche lei, nel suo mondo a strisce, e troverà le cose belle della vita che la attendono, appena un poco più in là.