SCARPA LAURA "THE UNEXPECTED LIFE". 2014. marker and watercolor on paper. Cm 30x21. Story published by Rizzoli in 2014.AN UNCLEAR STORY.The Unexpected Life (Rizzoli Lizard), an anthology of short stories that is one of the most ambitious publishing projects of the comics fall. It is a collective volume, created by a dozen leading authors of national comics, plus a foreign guest, which was created as a drawn sidebar to Viverla tutta, a communication and social engagement campaign promoted by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer since 2011, with the involvement of the scientific community, institutions and a Repubblica.it forum. The goal is to promote the spread of so-called Narrative Medicine and encourage the sharing of testimonies of illness.

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