My dear friend, musician, comic book author and scholar
Francesco Pelosi did it!
He revised, expanded and collected the
Mappaterra series of essays he wrote for the online magazine
Quasi (in Italian, of course), and they will be printed in book form! In this volume (as he did in the articles) Pelosi traces a map of Moore's work, investigating his stories under the lens of Eternalism, spacetime theory, magic and the power of imagination. You can still read the
complete series HERE. I think they could disappear from the Web sooner or later (paper rules!), so... hurry up!
With a fantastic cover by
Francesco Frongia, the volume is enriched with amazing illustrations by Italian artists (in order of appearance) Alessandro Aroffu, La Came, Alpraz, Christian Galli, Claudio Calia, David Bacter, Francesco Frongia, Polsino, Emme, Chiara Raimondi, Lorenzo Palloni, Alessio Ravazzani, Titta D’Onofrio, Federica Ferraro, Sara Vincenzi, Officina Infernale, and Rise.
Afterword by Paolo Interdonato and a foreword by... yours truly! Grazie mille, Francesco!
Please note that Pelosi contributed to the
Alan Moore: Portraits with a "remixed" essay from the
Mappaterra series. So, you can read it there in English! No excuses!