Lucca Comics and Games 2022: Leo Ortolani presents Musa

Lucca Comics and Games 2022: Leo Ortolani presents Musa

Lucca Comics and Games 2022



Lucca Comics and Games 2022 is missing less and less time and the calendar of appointments is getting richer. In fact, during the event, Leo Ortolani will present Musa, his first artbook. Let's find out all the details together!

Leo Ortolani presents Musa

On the occasion of Lucca Comics and Games 2022, Leo Ortolani will present Musa, a celebratory volume dedicated to over twenty years of honorable career. Inside there will be a series of splendid illustrated tables, colored by Sarah D’Imporzano. So get ready to experience a journey capable of bringing to light everything that influenced Leo Ortolani during his career, such as Frank Frazetta, John William Waterhouse, Alfons Mucha.

Being a celebratory edition, al inside there will also be a collector's print, protected inside a precious parchment envelope. In short, this new proposal promises to be something essential for every passionate collector.


Photo: Leo Ortolani We also inform you that Leo Ortolani will also be present at the event "Musa: a journey through artistic influences, with Leo Ortolani". The appointment to mark on the agenda is on Saturday 29 October at 10:30 at the San Giovanni Auditorium.

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The unmistakable style of Leo Ortolani

Leo Ortolani is today one of the most important and appreciated Italian cartoonists. His ironic and pungent style has earned him numerous awards and among his most famous works it is impossible not to mention Rat-Man, probably the most iconic character born of the artist's mind.

Buy on Amazon il box set from the Rat-Man series with the first four collectible volumes inside






All ready for Dampyr, a €15 million Italian megaproduction

26/09/2022 - Riccardo Chemello's debut feature, a fantasy action film based on the cult comic book of the same name and with an international cast, will debut at Italy's Lucca Comics & Games


Frida Gustavsson in Dampyr


The first Italian franchise entirely in English and with an impressive budget of over €15 million, the fantasy action film Dampyr [+see also:trailerfilm profile], directed by first-time director Riccardo Chemello and based on the cult comic book of the same name, is the first film of the Bonelli Cinematic Universe and is set to open the next edition of Lucca Comics & Games, where it will have its world premiere. Co-produced by Eagle Pictures, Sergio Bonelli Editore and Brandon Box, the film will be released simultaneously in Italian cinemas on 28 October, with Eagle Pictures (here is the trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWg2X9P6rJo).

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Dampyr, based on the first two albums of the comic series created by Mauro Boselli and Maurizio Colombo (published by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 2000, now numbering 300 albums), is scripted by Mauro Boselli, Giovanni Masi, Alberto Ostini, and Mauro Uzzeo. It is set during the Balkan war, in the early 1990s, and follows the adventures of Harlan. Persecuted by horrible nightmares, Harlan makes ends meet by pretending to be a Dampyr (in Slavic mythology, a being half-human and half-vampire) capable of ridding villages of what the superstitious inhabitants naively believe to be terrible curses linked to the world of vampires. But when he is summoned by soldiers attacked by bloodthirsty creatures, Harlan discovers the truth: he really is a Dampyr. While trying to confront a terrible 'Master of the Night,' Harlan must learn to manage his powers and discover his origins. Accompanying him is a renegade vampire and a soldier seeking revenge.


The cast is international: Dampyr is embodied by Wade Briggs (the Still Star Crossed and Please Like Me series), Emil Kurjak by Stuart Martin (Army of Thieves, the series Jamestown and The Medici) and Tesla by Frida Gustavsson (Tigers [+see also:film reviewtrailerinterview: Ronnie Sandahlfilm profile], the series Vikings: Valhalla). Alongside them are David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Sebastian Croft (Game of Thrones) and Luke Roberts (Game of Thrones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman). Behind the scenes, hair designer Giorgio Gregorini, Oscar winner for Best Makeup and Hairstyle in the film Suicide Squad; Makeup Designer Francesca Galafassi (Game of Thrones, Ben-Hur); Vladimir 'Furdo' Furdik as Fight Choreographer (Skyfall [+see also:film reviewtrailermaking offilm profile], Game of Thrones, The Witcher) and Lubomir Misak as Supervising Stunt Coordinator (Game of Thrones, The Last Legion, The New Pope [+see also:series reviewinterview: Paolo Sorrentinoseries profile]); Giovanni Casalnuovo as Costume Designer (Wanted, Romeo & Juliet, Beowulf). The producers are Roberto Proia, Vincenzo Sarno, and Andrea Sgaravatti.


The Bonelli Cinematic Universe is part of the project of Bonelli Entertainment, the production arm dedicated to the development of film and television projects based on its characters, such as the animated series Dragonero, an international co-production with Rai Kids, Power Kids and NexusTV, and the 10-episode live-action dedicated to Dylan Dog co-produced by SBE and James Wan's Atomic Monster.

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