Comics & Graphic Novels

A small, agile, and colorful guide to discovering eight 24-hour itineraries in the city of Rome in a new and fun way. Through eight comic stories, all to be enjoyed to get into the atmosphere, each corresponding to a thematic itinerary, it offers an unexpected, dynamic, and entertaining reading experience. A guide that satisfies every type of traveler, from art enthusiasts to fashion addicts, from athletes to intellectuals.

24 ore a… Roma. Itinerari a fumetti per una giornata in città, by Manuela Santoni – November 2023 – 24 ORE Cultura
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History is made up of events and people who have shaped the world as it is today. Some are distant in time and space, others are closer, and still others are happening right now. From the coronation of Pharaoh Ramses II to the battles for the rights of Nelson Mandela, this is a journey in twenty stages to read history as if it were a film.

Tutta un’altra storia. 20 episodi che hanno cambiato il mondo, by Franco Cardini and Marina Montesano; illustrated by Manuela Santoni and Stefano Tirasso – October 2022 – Feltrinelli
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What does it mean to remember? And how painful can it be to remember what everyone else seems to have forgotten? The village of Montequadrato is haunted by a ghost, a ghost that only young Emma (and her cat Malpelo) can see: it is Pietro, a former soldier of the Second World War who cannot find peace. He remembers little about his life, but among those memories is a letter he never managed to deliver to the woman he loved. Thus, Emma, Malpelo, and Pietro embark on a journey between past and present, between erased memories and memories to be rediscovered, through one of the most inhumane periods of our history. Everything they discover will be painful, inevitable, and necessary. A book about the importance of remembering.

An introverted little girl who talks to a cat (who answers her!) and does not want to learn how to swim. A mysterious letter brought by the wind, and a thin thread that connects that crumpled piece of paper to a story from the past, complex and difficult to uncover, but even harder to accept. A story from the time of the Second World War, the historical moment that split the world in two. Manuela Santoni narrates with a rare delicacy the way in which the youngest should remember the horrors of the past, to promise themselves never to let them happen again.

La Lettera Perduta, by Manuela Santoni – January 2022 – Bao Publishing
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A graphic novel on the life and works of Mary Shelley, who wrote and created Frankenstein, one of the most beloved monsters in literature. The graphic novel has been published in Italian.

Mary Shelley – l’eterno sogno, by Alessandro di Virgilio & Manuela Santoni – August 2020 – BeccoGiallo Editore
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A graphic novel on the life and works of Charlotte, Emily e Anne Brontë, reliving their struggle against economic adversities, as they turn their creative talent and their passion for writing in a way to sustain themselves and living intensely. The graphic novel has been published in Italian.

Le sorelle Brontë – November 2018 – Beccogiallo Editore
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A graphic novel on the life and works of Jane Austen, in the form of a long letter to her sister Cassandra. The graphic novel has been published in Italian.

Jane Austen - February 2017 - Beccogiallo Editore
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