Stripburger #75

We took advantage of the quarantine to explore the Italian comics scene and delve into the secrets of its visual vitality: from the still dynamic and subversive veterans of the Valvoline collective to the ‘young guns’ who are to co-create the future history of Italian comics. We went back in time, to the period of the famous Valvoline collective that shook the Italian and international comics scene with their fierce energy, bold exploration and rebellion against established comics conventions in the Eighties, and we interviewed two significant members of the group, Lorenzo Mattotti in Giorgio Carpinteri, both distinctive and recognizable artists with very picturesque and characteristic styles and an abundant comics opus.