Mingus

"Journalist Flavio Massarutto and artist Squaz (Pasquale Todisco) retrace the stages of Mingus's journey, giving life to a non-canonical biography, which proceeds in paginated episodes like a succession of passages that form a musical suite: fragments of existence told by fishing from interviews, writings, testimonies and historical facts. The portrait of a musician who is the mirror of an era comes out, of a brilliant composer who was also one of the most clearly committed artists in denouncing racism, with real manifesto pieces such as the famous Fable of Faubus denouncing the segregationist governor of Arkansas. In the words of Massarutto and in the evocative art of Squaz, which also reinterpret some of the famous covers of Mingus records, we relive the burning parable of a restless man, always in search of perfection, in constant struggle with himself and with the world: a master capable of leaving an indelible mark on the musical and cultural panorama of the twentieth century."--

About the author

Flavio Massaruto writes for comics and is involved in jazz. Squaz is the pen name for Pasquale Todisco, an Italian comic artist with a very hard-edged expressionistic style of art reminiscent of the famous Argentine artist Jose Munoz.

Product details

• Authors: Flavio Massaruto, Flavio Massarutto
• Assisted by: Squaz (Illustration), Squaz (Illustration)
• Publisher: NBM Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781681123097
• ISBN: 978-1-68112-309-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Nbm Comics Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Graphic Novels, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Graphic novel & Comic book: types