GREGORI CLAUDIO "ANIMAL COMIC". 1990. China on paper. 29x21 cm. VIGNETTE OF THE HISTORICAL PERIOD OF LACTICS AND ITS DERIVATIVESCollaborators in a children's comic book publisher (the ACME in Rome), Greg (cartoonist) and Paolo Di Orazio (headline coordinator) decide to form a parody song band. Publisher Francesco Coniglio merges the two with Lillo (cartoonist), tasking them with laying the groundwork for a demented comics project. Early work on the masthead is interrupted by the publisher's closure. The collected materials already possess in nuce the characteristics of the future band.

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