Zerocalcare

He was born in Cortona and grew up in France and then in Rome.[1] He began his career in 2001, when he created a cartoon about the G8 summit in Genoa.[2] In 2003 he began working as an illustrator for the daily newspaper Liberazione and for several Italian periodicals such as Carta and La Repubblica XL, and for the online division of DC Comics, Zuda Comics. In 2007 created the cartoon La politica non c'entra niente in collaboration with Push/R, inspired by the murder of Renato Biagetti. In October 2011 he published his first graphic novel, La profezia dell'armadillo, produced by the cartoonist Makkox. In November 2011 he started a cartoon blog zerocalcare.it in which he published autobiographical strips. In September his blog won the Macchianera Award 2012 as Best draftsman-Cartoonist.[3] In the same month he won the Gran Guinigi Award at Lucca Comics for best short story. On July 14, 2014 the editor BAO Publishing published the cover of the Zerocalcare's graphic novel Dimentica il mio nome. In April 2016 the stories published in the magazine Internazionale were collected in the volume Kobane Calling, a cartoon focused on the conflict between the Kurds and the Islamic State. In 2017 Kobane Calling won the Micheluzzi Award as best cartoon at Naples Comicon. Kobane Calling was published in English in 2016.[4] The 14 January 2018 was published on L'Espresso questa non è una partita a bocce, a satiric comic focused on the rise of Neo-fascist movements in Italy.[5] The 7 May 2018 was published Macerie Prime sei mesi dopo, that concludes the plot of the previous Macerie Prime of November 2017.

From November 2018 to the end of March 2019, the MAXXI hosts Zerocalcare. Scavare fossati, Nutrire coccodrilli,[6] the first exhibition in his honor. On December 21st 2020 the author announced a forthcoming animated series entitled 'Strappare lungo i bordi' written and directed by him and hosted on Netflix.

During October 2017 started the footage of the movie La profezia dell'armadillo, from the namesake comic. Zerocalcare was one of the screenwriters of the movie. The character of Calcare is interpreted by the Italian actor Simone Liberati[7]

• La profezia dell'armadillo, Edizioni Graficart, 2011, ISBN 8889021446
• La profezia dell'armadillo – colore 8 bit, BAO Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9788865431030
• Un polpo alla gola, BAO Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9788865431139
• Ogni maledetto lunedì su due, BAO Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9788865431559
• Dodici, BAO Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9788865431801
• Dimentica il mio nome, BAO Publishing, 2014, ISBN 9788865432549
• Kobane Calling, Internazionale n. 1085, 2015
• L'elenco telefonico degli accolli, BAO Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9788865435014
• Ferro e piume, Internazionale n. 1122, 2015
• Kobane Calling, BAO Publishing, 2016, ISBN 8865436182, ISBN 978-8865436189
• Groviglio, La Repubblica, 24 December 2016
• Macerie Prime, BAO Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-8865439760, ISBN 978-8865439777
• Macerie Prime sei mesi dopo, BAO Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-8832730760, ISBN 978-8832730852
• La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare, BAO Publishing, 2019,.[8]
• Scheletri, BAO Publishing, 2020, ISBN 9788832734898.
• A babbo morto.Una storia di Natale, BAO publishing, 2020, ISBN 9788832735512.

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