Igort
Igort (born September 26, 1958 in Cagliari as Igor Tuveri ) is an Italian comic artist .
Life
After working for the Italian comic magazine Linus , he founded the Valvoline group with Lorenzo Mattotti , Daniele Brolli , Roberto Baldazzini and Giorgio Carpinteri , which brought out the independent comic magazine Il Pinguino . From the end of the 1990s Igort published some experimental single albums with comic publishers in France and Italy and was also presented in the magazines Métal hurlant and L´Écho des Savanes . In the 1990s he drew the series Amore et Yuri for the Japanese publisher Kōdansha . He founded his own publishing house - Coconino Press - in 2000 and created four albums for it.
Igort also works for radio and television.
Publications
- The Lethargy of the Senses (Album, Writer & Reader, 1992)
- 5 is the perfect number (album, avant-Verlag, 2003)
- Fats Waller (album, avant-Verlag, 2005)
- Baobab (2 issues, avant-Verlag, 2005–2006)
- Reports from Ukraine (album, reproduced, 2011)
- Reports from Russia (album, reproduction, 2012)
- Reports from Russia. The forgotten war in the Caucasus (2013)
- Reports from Japan. A journey into the realm of signs (2016)
literature
- Igort: The Lethargy of the Senses , Verlag Schreiber & Leser, Munich 1992, p. 48
Web links
- Homepage
- Igort at comicguide.de
- Igort at lambiek.net
- "A look to the east" review at comicradioshow.com
- A comic about the Chechen wars. Interview with Igort in Standard from October 5, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Igort |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tuveri, Igor (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cagliari |