NEWS
Enrico Berlinguer: the centenary of his birth
Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the PCI from 1972 to 1984 would have turned one hundred today (he was born in Sassari on 25 May 1922). Ettore Viola remembers him with two portraits for the Manifesto and for the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.
Darwin Day
The 213rd birthday party of the father of the theory of evolution
Published today unpublished by Pier Paolo Posolini
On the occasion of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the illustration by Ettore Viola
Happy birthday Virginia Woolf
“In idleness, in dreams, the submerged truth sometimes comes to the surface”
Attilio Bertolucci and his poetry
On November 18, 1911, the great poet Attilio Bertolucci, father of directors Bernardo and Giuseppe, was born.
We remember him with a portrait of Ettore Viola
The touch of cartoonists
The touch of cartoonists.
Unpublished by Ettore Viola.
Three americans: Winsor McCay, Chester Gould and Milton Caniff. Two belgians: Eduard P. Jacobs and Willy Vandersteen.
Viola’s technique
The main element of Viola’s technique is indian ink traced over pencil lines. Being one of the simplest and fastest techniques, it’s particularly suitable for the frantic times of the daily newspapers he used to work for.
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