La magnifica illusione. New York 1938
by Tota, Alessandro
Through a romantic fresco populated by artists and immigrants, Alessandro Tota recounts the golden age of comic books and the birth of a veritable industry. At the end of the 1930s, young Roberta Miller flees the Kansas countryside, made inhospitable by the Great Depression. She arrives in New York, the city where anything is possible, and there she frequents communists and illegal cabarets. She writes stories about detectives, beautiful women and masked superheroes. She experiences glory, abundance and love… while trying not to starve to death.
- Publishing house Coconino Press
- Year of publication 2024
- Number of pages 244
- ISBN 9788876187568
- Foreign Rights Alessandra Sternfeld alessandra@am-book.com
- Ebook non disponibile
- Price 22.00
Tota, Alessandro
Alessandro Tota was born in Bari in 1982. One of the founders of the magazine Canicola (Prix de la Bd Alternative, Angouleme 2007), he lived in Paris from 2005 to 2021, where he continues to teach comics and screenwriting. His books are published in Germany, Great Britain and Spain, and in Italy by Coconino Press and Oblomov, where they have won the main awards in the sector, including the Gran Guinigi award for Best Book at Lucca Comics&Games.
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