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Bao Publishing and Nick Bertozzi in 2011 Cartoomics

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BAO PUBLISHING E NICK BERTOZZI

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CARTOOMICS 2011

After debuting last year at Cartoomics, B AO Publishing back to the Milan fair with a special guest: the New York graphic-novelist Nick Bertozzi. To mark the occasion will be presented the book "The great journey of Lewis and Clark", released to coincide with the publication of the American First: Second.

In 1804, encouraged by President Jefferson in person, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from St. Louis, Missouri, to take one of the greatest adventures of all time: to reach the west coast the American continent to map, for the first time, a country not yet joined. Disease, misfortune, unfriendly Indians and the incipient depression that Lewis is not the first difficulties of a trip that seemed destined to triumph, then the path of an obstacle in caravan appears did not even suspect its existence: the Rocky Mountains. Defeating even the undeniable truth of geography, within two years the explorers reach the goal, and forever changed American history.

Nick Bertozzi moves his love of history in an exciting journey, between irony and double-page cartoons for the reader to breathe, even the magnificence and the grandeur of a single firm that has fascinated even the TV series

"The Simpsons" which devoted an episode to their Lewis and Clark.

A story so real that it seems make-believe, a fundamental chapter in the growth of a young country, a company that will shake deep in the hearts of readers.

addition to "The great journey of Lewis and Clark" will be available the latest news publisher in Milan: "Goldilocks and the seven dwarfs bears" by Emile Bravo, the first volume of DC Kids " Small Titans "by Baltazar and Franco.

Nick Bertozzi BAO Publishing and expect readers to stand G06 dedications and chat!

BIO:

Nick Bertozzi is one of the most popular American authors of the underground comics of recent years. He grew up in Providence (Rhode Island) and lived in Philadelphia and Madrid, but currently lives in Queens (NY) with his wife and daughters.

He received a Xeric Grant and several Harvey and Ignatz Award. In 2007 he published Guanda il suo Chi vuole uccidere Picasso, una graphic novel su Picasso e la scoperta del cubismo.

Ha collaborato con Jason Lutes per la biografia a fumetti “Houdini: the handcuff king” e fa parte del collettivo new yorkese Act-I-Vate, fondato da Dean Haspiel, dove pubblica i suoi web-comic fantascientifici.

Negli ultimi anni ha insegnato cartooning alla School of Visual Arts di New York, all'RISD e al Center for Cartoon Studies diretto da James Sturm in Vermont.