Filippo Scòzzari


Filippo Scòzzari, is an Italian comics artist, painter and writer, one of the main figures of the 1970s underground art movement. Known for his first comic at Mondadori's Il Mago under the pen name Winslow Leech, he worked for Re Nudo and Il Mago, Radio Alice of Bologna, Cannibale, Il Male, Frigidaire, Blue, Panorama, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Glamour International.

Career

His career began in the 1970s, appearing in various underground satirical publications; in 1979 he collaborated with the satirical weekly publication Il Male, and in the subsequent years he was published in Fri'Zzer, Tempi Supplementari, Il Lunedì della Repubblica and was among the founders of the comic magazines Cannibale and Frigidaire.
During the same years he also appeared in Re Nudo, Linus, Vogue, Spaceships Today, Panorama, and Alteralter.
His comics have been published in France, Brazil and Greece.
Most of his comics has been collected in eight books published in Italy by Primo Carnera Editore and Coniglio Editore, in France by Albin Michel, in Brazil by Conrad Editora.
He wrote six novels, an anthology of his best New P-Porno tales and a theatrical work, Heart in Slices. He held several exhibitions in Italy: in Rimini, in Montecchio Emilia, in Rome, in Reggio Emilia, in Milan, in Turin, in Bologna and, abroad, in Athens.
Among his comic books are: a graphic novel based on Raymond Chandler's screenplay The Blue Dahlia, a collection of stories from his underground period, a collection of his early science fiction short stories and various collections of the comics formerly published in FRIGIDAIRE magazine.
Very interesting his last sci-fi cartoons anthology "LASSU' NO" : "Thousands of details, of flesh and bolts, and then male, clerks, yawns, shady landings and ruthless assassins. Dirty worlds, mud balls, opalescent palaces like extra-luxury rocket hoods. Crazy colors, off the spectrum of bourgeois decency. All this and much more are the comics of Filippo Scòzzari, if you look at them, but if you had to risk reading them you would be invaded like the Earth by aliens. The language of Flip La Folì is the most untold and unmatched in the world comic, intricate literary construction but plausible spoken of its irregular protagonists, often equated to the prose of Thomas Landolfi for the pleasure and freedom of invention and for the sadistic mastery of stress the syntax until it is incandescent, steaming, one step away from the disintegration of the gears. Scòzzariano is said when someone tries to play hard with words and their sequence, scòzzarian is who, like me, finds himself delivered a narrative Ferrari accustomed as it was to read only utilitarians, at the maximum of Citroen. This book is the account of a climb, a book-binoculars that makes us enjoy one of the most daring comic shows ever, a peak unattainable by nature, by magic, by choice. The world is full of summits to aim for, where your sherpa can lead you. Equipped with everything, you can go anywhere. But where Scòzzari went, no, not up there."

Works