Igort


Igort is an Italian comics artist, illustrator, script writer, and film director.
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Biography

He began his career in Bologna at the end of the seventies, collaborating with numerous magazines: including linus, Alter, Frigidaire, Métal Hurlant, L'Écho des savanes, Vanity, and The Face. Since the nineties, he has collaborated with the Japanese publishing houses Kodansha, Brutus and Hon Hon do.
In 1994 he exhibited his works at the Venice Biennale.
In 2000 he founded the Coconino Press publishing house.
In 2002 he published 5 is the perfect number, a Neapolitan noir, that he began drawing in Tokyo and completed after about 10 years of processing and rewriting. The book, labeled Coconino Press, came out simultaneously in 6 countries and won the Book of the Year Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. It is Igort's most popular book to date.
Fats Waller followed, an imaginative biography of one of the most popular Jazz musicians of the Thirties, in collaboration with the Argentine writer and screenwriter, Carlos Sampayo. Igort's work began to spread further abroad. He moved to Paris and began the Baobab series, which tells the parallel lives of a Japanese boy and a young South American. The Baobab series came out simultaneously in Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Germany and the United States.
In 2010, after a long residence between Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, Igort wrote and drew Ukrainian Notebooks, published in the Strade Blu series of Mondadori.
In 2011 he published Russian Notebooks, drawn following a report by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja. The volume Pagine nomadi follows, its publication coincides with the large exhibition dedicated to graphic journalism hosted at the Milan Triennale.
In 2013 he starred in the documentary Igort, the secret landscape, by director Domenico Distilo which illustrates the research carried out for the trilogy on the Soviet Union, the birth of the graphic novel and its relationship with the story through images.
In the last half of 2014, Igort announced on his personal Facebook page the publication of his next work, Japanese notebooks, a memoir, comic essay, travel book and drawn reportage that tells the author's years spent in Japan. In December of the same year Nostalgia is published, a book which is a preview of a work to be published.
In November 2016, the novel My Generation came out, which concerns the Punk and New Wave era. In the same month he released Gli assalti alle panetterie, a volume written by Haruki Murakami that Igort illustrated with watercolors.
On 21 February 2017 Igort announced on Facebook that he would be leaving Coconino Press because he is no longer able to do his job there serenely.
In 2019, Igort directed the live action adaptation of 5 is the Perfect Number, starring Toni Servillo and Valeria Golino.

Main works

In English

  • Dulled Feelings
  • Baobab 1
  • Baobab 2
  • Baobab 3
  • 5 is the Perfect Number
  • Fats Waller
  • The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks
  • Japanese Notebooks
  • How War Begins

In Italian

Goodbye Baobab, with Daniele Brolli, Rizzoli 1984That's all Folks. Granata Press, 1993Il letargo dei sentimenti. Granata Press, 1993Cartoon Aristocracy. Carbone, 1994Perfetti e invisibili. Skirà, 1996Yuri. Kodansha, 1996Brillo: i segreti del bosco antico. De Agostini, 1997 Sinatra. Coconino Press, 2000City lights, Coconino Press, 2001Maccaroni Circus, Cut up 20015 è il Numero Perfetto. Coconino Press, 2002Il letargo dei Sentimenti. Coconino Press, 20025 Variations. John Belushi, 2002Brillo Croniche di Fafifurnia. Coconino Press, 2003Yuri, Asa Nisi masa. Coconino Press, 2003Fats Waller. Con Carlos Sampayo. Coconino Press, 2004Baobab 1. Coconino press, 2005Baobab 2. Coconino press, 2006Storyteller. Coconino Press, 2007Dimmi che non vuoi morire. With Massimo Carlotto. Mondadori 2007Casinò. Nocturne, 2007 Baobab 3. Coconino press, 2008Quaderni ucraini. Mondadori, 2010Parola di Chandler. With Raymond Chandler. Coconino Press, 2011Quaderni russi. Mondadori, 2011Pagine Nomadi, storie non ufficiali dell'Unione Sovietica. Coconino Press 2012Sinfonia a Bombay. Coconino Press 2013Quaderni ucraini, Coconino Press, 2014Quaderni Russi Nuova edizione, Coconino Press, 2014Nostalgia, Edizioni Oblomov, 2014Quaderni giapponesi, Coconino Press, 2015My Generation. Chiarelettere 2016Gli assalti alle panetterie. Einaudi 2016Ishiki no kashi. Oblomov 2017Quaderni Giapponesi vol 2 - Il vagabondo del manga. Oblomov 2017

In French

La lethargie des sentiments. Albin Michel 1987
L'enfer des desirs Les Humanos 1989.
Sinatra. Amok 2000
5 est le numero parfait. Casterman 2002
  • La Ballade de Hambone. Tome 1 With Leila Marzocchi. Futuropolis 2009
  • La ballade de Hambone. Tome 2 With Leila Marzocchi. Futuropolis 2010
Les Cahiers Ukrainiens. Futuropolis 2010
Les cahiers russes. Futuropolis 2012
Les Cahiers Japonais. Futuropolis 2015
Les cahiers Japonais tome 2. Futuropolis 2017
Les Cahiers Japonais tome 3. Futuropolis 2020
Encre sur papier. Ici Meme 2021
Kokoro – Le Son caché des choses. Ici Meme 2021Gauloises. With Andrea Serio. Futuropolis 2022
Journal d'une invasione. Futuropolis 2023

Awards

  • 2017 Prize Golden Romics to career at XXI Edition of Romics.
  • 2016 Winner of the "Premio Napoli" in Naples for the diffusion of italian culture in the world.
  • 2016 Winner of the "Best artist" award at Naples' comic Festival. Comicon 2016 for "Quaderni Giapponesi".
  • 2016 Winner of the "Author of the year" award in Lucca Comics Festival. 2016 for "Quaderni Giapponesi".
  • 2013 Winner of "Mostra Internazionale dei Cartoonists" award in Rapallo, 2013, as best realistic artist.
  • 2013 Winner of the "Best script " award for the "Cahiers russes" in Pibrac. Prix lycéen de la BD.
  • 2013 U Giancu's Prize, International Cartoonists Exhibition, Rappollo, Italy
  • 2012 Winner of the "Book of the year" award in Naples comic Festival. Comicon 2012 for "Quaderni Russi"
  • 2012 Winner of the "Book of the year" award. Prix Region Centre. In Blois comic Festival.Comicon 2012 for "Les Caihers Russes"
  • 2011 Winner of the "Prize in memory of Holodomor" in Paris, November 2011 for "Les cahiers Ukrainiens"
  • 2011 Special prize at Napoli Comicon for Quaderni Ucraini
  • 2007 Prize Italia Criminale at Treviso Comics for Dimmi che non vuoi morire
  • 2006 Prize Best book of the year at Napoli Comicon for Fats Waller
  • 2005 Winner of International event of the year award at Treviso Comics for Fats Waller
  • 2004 Prize Lo straniero al Negroamaro festival
  • 2004 Prize "libro jazz dell'anno" per Fats Waller al jazz festival "Swing a Xirocourt"
  • 2003 Prize Best book of the year at Frankfurt Bookfair for 5 is the perfect number
  • 2003 Prize Coccobill: best author at Milan comics festival Cartoomics
  • 2003 Special prize A.N.A.F.I.
  • 2003 Grand prize at Romics for 5 è il numero perfetto
  • 2002 Prize Pulcinella at Naples Comicon