Cronachette on the graphic novel is a delicate time, constructed under the pretext of telling the daily saga of black kitten solitary author. Showing
micro that wind from his apartment to the Moon, Nanni scans the unique ability of cats to live an undivided time, created and recreated through expansion and acceleration extremes: endless sleep, convulsive strokes, lightning attacks of nowhere ...
From Crumb to Herriman by Moebius in Sfar, there have been extraordinary in cats comics, characterized in turn by feelings of tenderness, vision, cruelty, surreality. In this context
Cronachette , while evoking the rarefied elegance of the sign and graphic Japanese culture (and precious felines sketches by Manet and Steinlen), and although it is related with Peanuts
for the composition of boards, white Black and clean humor and mild melancholy, however, stands as a work of completely original.
Nanni has created a delicate filigree poetic fact the inexhaustible capacity of the cat-and character of his peculiarly all-species incessantly to convert space in moments of time. Le 350 pagine dell’opera fotografano con precisione e sobrietà esemplari questa attitudine, attingendo all’infinito catalogo naturale a disposizione: l’impercettibile scivolare del corpo, apparentemente immobile nei lunghissimi sonni, attraverso gamme di micromovimenti scansionati su tavole bianche in cui spiccano le vellutate
silhouettes nere; i
détournements improvvisi, quando appostamenti pazienti si estinguono nell’urgenza di spulciarsi una spalla; gli immobilismi duraturi e perfetti, sintetizzati nel tratteggio dell’ombra che rendiconta il tempo che scorre…
E va infine riconosciuta la radice della potenza descrittiva dell’autore: l’attenzione, quella radiographer secular prayer in which he transposes his creature and the tables of graphic novels published by Coconino Press, an unforgettable comic physiology of the ineffable.
Claudia Berger
