THE DARKSTORE MISSION SPX 2010!!! 
One year has passed since my first Swedish Experience. SPX 2009 [the
report has been published on
Scuola di Fumetto (School of Comic) # 69 (
Coniglio Editore )] has been full of international artists and publishers, meetings and release parties, to testify the costant growth of the festival created & organized by Kristiina Kolehmainen chief of
Stockholm's Serieteket inside the
Stockholm Kulturhuset , with the contribution of Anders Lundgren & Johannes Klennell, editor in chief of
Galago Magazine (Ordfront).
This year, from April the 23th to April the 25th, the label/not label The Darkstore will bring to Sweden @
SPX2010 a bunch of Italian publishers, independent and selfproducted. And of course in Illustration & Comics italian translation: almost all the books will be bilingual (Italian / Inglese) to entertain the Scandinavian readers with a pocket full of italian comics! So here we go with the italian indy wild bunch of the season:
Canicola ,
RAM Hotel, JUDAS
, Passenger
Press, Modo Infoshop, Ernest, and Puck! ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------
One year has passed since the first Swedish experience. The SPX 2009 is documented in
report published
School Comics # 69 (
Coniglio Editore) was packed with guests and international publishers, meetings with authors and presentations of new publications, reflecting the continued growth of this event organized by Kristiina Kolehmainen, responsible for the internal
Stockholm Serieteket Kulturhuset in Stockholm, in collaboration with Anders Lundgren and Johannes Klennell, boss of the magazine Galago
(Ordfront).
This year, the label / non-label Darkstore The April 23 to 25 lead in the land of Sweden
SPX2010 a handful of Italian publishers and independent self in sign illustration, comics and bilingualism, making imaginary bridge between Italy and Scandinavia. So here in the wild parade indy italian wild bunch of the season:
Canicola ,
RAM Hotel, JUDAS
,
Passenger Press,
Modo Infoshop ,
Ernest, and Puck! technical specifications and details to follow!
Editor / Publisher: Canicola
Website: http://www.canicola.net/ Language / Language: Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Products / Products: Canicola Magazine Graphic Novels
Dettagli/Details: The Canicola experience formerly was founded by
Edo Chieregato & Liliana Cupido (curators),
Andrea Bruno ,
Michelangelo Setola ,
Giacomo Monti plus
Giacomo Nanni ,
Davide Catania ,
Amanda Vahamaki &
Alessandro Tota . Bruno has been a guest of the past SPX09 with an impressive exhibition of his most recent artwork at that moment, host by the Stockholm Kulturhuset. This year together with his previous graphic novel
BDN Brodo di niente (Soup of nothing) comes
Sabato Tregua (Saturday Truce - the original artwork has been recently on exhibition Inside the
Fragile Continuous Gallery through Perugia's
Miomao Gallery ). Beside Bruno's books, will be available the new anthology by James Monti
No one will hurt (No-one will hurt me) and
The train (The Train) by Chihoi Lee and the numbers 7 & 8 of Canicola Magazine. For Further details & infos: #
http://www.canicola.net/libri.htm Editor / Publisher: RAM
Hotel Website: http://www.ramhotel.com/ Genre / Genre: Books illustration / Illustration books
Language / Language: Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Products / Products: Joanna Hellgren -
trees Children / Kids on the trees , Christopher Hittinger -
Giants / Giants ; Sara Colaone & Francesco Satta -
Monsieur B. : Paulina Makela - Parallel
Spook David Catania -
Ghosts / Ghosts ; Vincent Filosa -
A story like the houses homeless / Like the houses without roof: a history ; Michelangelo Bristles -
Night in the container / container Into The Night, Paper Resistance - First Security
; Tuono Pettinato -
NAM Hotel ; Manuele Fior -
In viaggio, Berlino, Oslo, Aswan/On a journey: Berlin, Oslo, Aswan ; Marino Neri -
Il segreto dell’autocombustione/The secret of the spontaneous combustion Dettagli/Details: An art gallery and a indy publisher developed from
RAM Graphic studios , founded and owned by
Marco Ficarra . The peculiar square catalogues, small & elegant, are the trademark of this growing reality.
Editore/Publisher: GIUDA (Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawing Arts)
Website: http://www.giudaedizioni.it Genere/Genre: Rivista di Illustrazione/Illustration Magazine
Lingua/Language: Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Prodotti/Products: GIUDA Magazine
Dettagli/Details: Created & leaded by
Gianluca Costantini &
Elettra Stamboulis (creators of
Mirada Gallery and
Komikazen Festival in Ravenna), GIUDA is an interesting and ambitious illustration project, a wild ride through "unreal spots, graveyard portraits, puzzles of anonymous citizens" with the contribution of international artists, like the spanish collective El Cubri,
Armin Barducci , Ciro Fanelli, Marco Lobietti,
Rocco Lombardi ,
Angelo Mennillo ,
Robert Rebotti and
Alice Socal .
Editore/Publisher: Passenger Press
Website: http://passengerpress.blogspot.com/ Lingua/Language: Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Genere/Genre: Rivista & Libri illustrati/Magazine & Illustration books
Prodotti/Products: Passenger Magazine, Passenger Cahiers
Dettagli/Details: Created by the graphic designer, illustrator & cartoonist
Christian Marra , the Passenger Press realises the Passenger magazine, a collective of international artists. The most high product of this small but growing indy reality is The Passenger Album Limited Edition, a must in his genre. Really interesting the newborn line “Passenger Cahiers”, featuring the artwork of
Alexis Ziritt and
Yan Wei .
On line store:
http://passengerpress.bigcartel.com Editore/Publisher: Modo Infoshop
Website: http://www.modoinfoshop.com/index.asp Lingua/Language: Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Genere/Genre: Illustration artbook
Prodotti/Products : POTENTE DI FUOCO, Il suicidio spiegato a mio figlio
Dettagli/Details: Erika il cane is one of the most renowned italian artists of the latest years. The powerful and impressive
POTENTE DI FUOCO published by Modo Infoshop (Via Mascarella 24b Bologna) features 96 full-colour pages where the artist recreates his childhood’s dreams & nightmares. “Twenty years after, his parents showed him his first drawnings, featuring both creatures from thin earth, and fantastic ones, and he simply started to draw them all again.”
Editore/Publisher: Ernest,
Website: http://www.ernestvirgola.blogspot.com/ Language / Language: Italian / Italian & Italiano-Inglese/Italian-English
Genre / Genre: Illustration books, one shot comics, comic anthologies
Products / Products: NY by Davide Toffolo,
Barcazza by Francesco Cattani,
Minimum by Raffaele Gaioni,
Pages iterative music by Ernest & Spizzo Fulvia, the anthology, Ernest, The Anthology.
Details / Details: The Ernest, experience is a collective created by comic artists formerly
Francesco Cattani & Sara Pavan, together with Samantha Luciani, Rebecca Rossi, Vincent Filosa, Giuseppe Walnut
Alessandro Lise & Alberto Talami ,
Laura Camelli and the young talented artist
Cristina Portolano (nominee Best short story in
Neaples Comicon 2010 ). Their logo and gadget is a button. They tell about everyday life, often breaking into the Theatre of the Absurd, depicting panoramas of daily frenzy.
Editore/Publisher: Puck!
Website: http://hurricaneivan.blogspot.com/ Genere/Genre: Underground magazine, featuring international artists
Lingua/Language: Italiano/Italian
Prodotti/Products: Puck! Magazine
Dettagli/Details: Probably the only real & living underground magazine published in Italy, featuring the talents of italian and international artists. Hunt Emerson, Kaz, Zograf, Bill Griffith,
Giuseppe Palumbo , Maurizio Rosenzweig,
Alberto Ponticelli , Roberto Mangosi, Hurricane Ivan Manuppelli, Mike Diana, Foolbert Sturgeon, Vanessa Belardo, Federico Sfascia, Massimo Semerano, Welcome Suckers,
Pat Moriarity ,
Maurizio Ercole , Danilo Loizedda, Alex Tirana, Emanuele Fossati and Robert Armstrong: here’s the headline of the first impressive issue of the crew leaded by Hurricane Ivan Manuppelli, father of the Puck! Project.
