Zigo Star Maurizio Rosenzweig [review] 
Zigo Stella is fucking funny and enthralling.
these facts.
If you start you just can not stop reading it.
Throughout the story continues to ask: and what will happen now? And then you think, heck! Why are there the bears?
The wonder is continuous.
continue to ask what the next found, where the protagonist will end up as another strange world is waiting for you to turn (often in a multidimensional way, I'll explain later) page ...
When you reach the end, after something like 250 pages, I'm sorry it's over.
I'm really sorry, would you wonder that would never end. At least it happened to me as well.
Maurizio Rosenzweig gives us lessons in the narrative, pure comic .. To this author, the relationship between aesthetics and narrative, we might say, between form and content, is inseparable.
Rosenzweig follows passion, and it shows. His thinking (shiny) follows the heart.
Its sign is never cold and 'brain' but always felt and energetic, as if to leave the page!
us to talk about it, divide it in form and content ... but the reader will take an incredible synergy between these aspects. Synergy that should always be considered in the comics medium.
And Zigo in Stella door to incredible new heights of exaltation.
Speaking of form, it is a Hyper Comics in that it uses its own mode of expression of the comic, even inventing new ones, bringing the comic medium itself to a new 'developmental level' and ... it's all hand made. Even the logo
Edizioni BD, on the cover.
Perhaps to show that there is no need to 'Special effects Electronics' to make a story with Controcazzi. And that being modern (or precursors), is another matter.
The flow of the narrative is assisted by a revolutionary way to use the scroll pages. Rosenzweig says: "At some point, people want to move, up down ... and so I started drawing boards vertically, then backward, then turn again as the story progresses "
So Rosenz came to tell from left to right (west reading), then from top to bottom (the reader must turn the volume and keep it 'like a calendar,' so to speak) to arrive at a story from right to left (east reading, typical of manga).
These 'changes direction' to follow step by step the journey of the protagonist in The size, always different worlds, somehow united by a single continuum.
These devices are then guided through beautiful visual are the author, you have to see with your eyes, explaining does not make sense.
appreciate the extensive use of splash page 'ad opening ', formerly only seen (to my knowledge) in Ronin by Frank Miller and Alberto Ponticelli cockroach (also referred to by so metatextual and ironic in epic Zigo Stella ...).
Bears, Death, Aliens, The Rock, sex ... and most of the naivety, idealism and adventure of the twelve years. And not only. All this is told in a very fun, interesting and deep.
A story to read and reread, to find points of view really multidimensional.
P. s. Saturday, January 15, at 18: Maurizio Rosenzweig and Manuel Agnelli, Afterhours singer, Star of the show Zigo Fnac in Milan. Do not miss!
