Presented by Francesco Cappellotto
No short story collection here, but a long, fast-paced criminal adventure written by Lorenzo La Neve and illustrated by Spugna, under the supervision of the maestro, Silver
Pitch-dark shadows, jagged lines, and skewed perspectives perfectly capture the nature of this shambolic anti-hero. Each cartoon is an explosion of chaos: tubes leaking mysterious substances, insects that are caricatures, teetering cities where the law is more bumbling than crime. Cattivik advances like a live stain, always ready to break the law…and ever doomed to fail. Dynamite that smokes but doesn’t explode, bold strikes that are off the mark, wild plans that implode: Cattivik’s wrongdoing is stagy, childish, and irresistible. His “Ghep!” and “Splak!” become soundbites that pierce the prevailing darkness. In his distorted comedic art, Cattivik celebrates imperfection. He’s a hero of failure who turns every disaster into a show. A small, tenacious blob who keeps on trying, despite it all.
Spugna is a cartoonist and illustrator. Author of Una brutta storia (Grrrz Comic Art Books, 2014), for Hollow Press he published The Rust Kingdom (2017), followed by Fingerless (2020) and Rusted Tales (2022). Illustrator of the comic books La quarta guerra mondiale and Vita da soldatinen, with texts by Marco Taddei (Feltrinelli, 2021 and 2022), Spugna drew an episode for Dylan Dog Color Fest (Sergio Bonelli, 2022). He collaborates with various self-produced Italian comics, such as B Comics, TINALS, Capek, and FRANKENSTEIN Magazine. He is a member of the collective Trincea Ibiza, with whom he created the comic Nove Maghi (2023). Spugna has won three Boscarato Awards at the Treviso Comic Book Festival: best new artist 2015, best cover designer 2020, and he shared the Best Artist prize in 2021(script and drawings). He also won the Micheluzzi Nuove strade Award at Napoli Comicon in 2018.
