The GialloLuna NeroNotte festival, organised by the Pa.Gi.Ne. Cultural Association of Ravenna, celebrates literary works related to the mystery and noir genres.
Born in 2003 as a multidisciplinary festival, it will offer, during the 2024 edition of the Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest, a calendar of presentations, curated by Nevio Galeati, writer, journalist and director of GialloLuna NeroNotte.
Riccardo Crosa - Born in Syracuse but adopted by Ravenna, he has worked as an illustrator with numerous publishing houses, including Stratelibri, Mondadori and Gruner und Jahr (for Focus Giochi and Focus Junior). As a cartoonist, he drew two issues of Agenzia Incantesimi and Jonathan Steele for Star Comics, and an album of Lupin III Millenium for Kappa Edizioni. His are also the drawings for the French series of Sanctuaire Redux and Sanctuaire Reminded published by Humanoides, Synchrone published by Le Lombard, Vigilantes and the one-shot Highgate published by Soleil. As an author he invents and draws the world and characters of Frusco il Feligno, and the character of Rigor Mortis, the Genius of Evil. He also illustrates the board game Kragmortha, the card game Sì, Oscuro Signore! (Yes, Dark Lord!) and Looterz. Since 2016 he has been a partner in the game publisher Pendragon Game Studio, in the role of art director. Since 2015 he started collaborating with Sergio Bonelli Editore for the Dragonero series. He was the character designer for the spin off Dragonero Adventures, the new editorial project of the Milanese publishing house dedicated to youngsters of which, in addition to being one of the regular illustrators, he is also the cover artist. He also edited the concept adaptation, together with Stefano Vietti and Luca Enoch, for the Dragonero Adventures animation project for Rai Animations. He created, with texts by Luca Enoch, the three-volume series Sottosopra, also by Sergio Bonelli Editore.
Davide Reviati - Born in Ravenna in 1966 to a family from Parma. In 1989, together with some friends, he founded the VACA group (Vari cervelli associati), which dealt with art, publishing and cinema. In 1997 he met Francesco Coniglio and began collaborating with the magazine "Blue". This was followed by the books: Drug Lion - I sogni e le stelle (Mare Nero e Vaca ed., 2002) and A - Un'avventura di Drug Lion (Centro fumetto Andrea Pazienza, 2003). Then the meeting with Igort, artistic director of Coconino Press, to whom he presented the plates of Morti di sonno, to be published in 2009. Editorial case of the year for critical and public consensus, it was translated in France (Casterman), Spain (Norma Editorial), Korea (Mimesis) and received several awards, including the Micheluzzi Prize at Napoli Comicon, the Romics Prize in Rome, the Prix Diagonale in Belgium and the Prix dBD Awards in Paris. Also in 2009, he published Dimenticare Tiananmen (Becco Giallo Editore), dedicated to the memory of those killed in the 1989 massacre; translated into France in 2013 (Cambourakis). Then comes Spit Three Times, published in 2016, translated in France, Germany and the United States and entered in the Sélection Officielle of the 2018 Angoulême Festival. He wins several awards including the Micheluzzi Prize, the Lo Straniero Prize, the Boscarato Prize at the Treviso Comic Book Festival. In 2019, he creates the illustrations for the book Chickamauga (Else - Edizioni Libri Serigrafici), inspired by Ambrose Bierce's story about the battle of the American Civil War. Two years later, Ho remato per un Lord (I Rowed for a Lord) was published. A short story by Stig Dagerman (Coconino Press).
Gianni Sedioli - Born in Ravenna in 1966, he came to comics in a way that was anything but predictable. In fact, he graduated as an industrial technician, and then worked as a commercial agent until 1991. Following his passion for comics, however, in 1992 he made his debut on "Tiramolla", writing and drawing a dozen stories. When the weekly magazine closed, between 1994 and 1995 he produced Cronache di mondi fantasy for Luca's Edizioni. Then, with Hobby&Work he drew two of the three volumes of the Steampunk miniseries. In 1996 he founded Seagull Comics and produced The Witch and Sunglasses. In 1997 he began to collaborate with Sergio Bonelli Editore, initially on the pages of Zona X and Jonathan Steele, and then became one of the most appreciated pencilers of Zagor, which he has been drawing for more than twenty years. He also took part in the project "I misteri dei Musei", realised by the Province of Ravenna, with texts by Massimo Marcucci and Gianni Barbieri (2009).
Join us on THURSDAY 17 october at 6 p.m!
Where? Teatro Rasi - Sala Mandaye N'Diaye.
