Garlandia
| Garlandia (Ghirlanda) | |
|---|---|
| Page count | 392 pages |
| Publisher | Logos Edizioni |
| Creative team | |
| Writer | Jerry Kramsky |
| Artist | Lorenzo Mattotti |
| Original publication | |
| Date of publication | 13 March 2017 |
| Language | Italian |
| ISBN | 9788857609003 |
| Translation | |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Date | 24 July 2018 |
| ISBN | 978-1-68396-097-3 |
| Translator | Jamie Richards |
Garlandia (Italian: Ghirlanda) is a 2017 Italian comic book illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti and written by Jerry Kramsky. A fantastical story in black-and-white, it is set in the pastoral land of Garlandia and especially follows the adventures of Hippolytes, the son of a shaman.[1][2]
At almost 400 pages, the comic took 10 years to make and was published 15 years after Mattotti's and Kramsky's previous collaboration, Jekyll & Hyde. Garlandia was published in 2017 in Italian and French.[3] The English translation by Jamie Richards was published in 2018.[4]
Il Post wrote that the illustrations are reminiscent of Alley Oop and the Moomin comic strips.[3] Publishers Weekly wrote that Garlandia focuses on its fictional world rather than characters. The critic praised the varied depictions of flowing landscapes and described the work as a "winding, dreamlike fantasy" with a "loose, stream-of-consciousness narrative".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Stivè, Valerio (25 July 2017). "Ghirlanda di Mattotti e Kramsky, un poema fantasy sul senso della vita". Fumettologica (in Italian). Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ^ Lehoczky, Etelka (28 July 2018). "'Garlandia' Is A Trippy, Visionary, Not Quite Sublime Graphic Novel". NPR. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ^ a b "Il nuovo graphic novel di Lorenzo Mattotti". Il Post (in Italian). 5 April 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ^ a b "Garlandia by Jerry Kramsky, Lorenzo Mattotti". Publishers Weekly. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
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