GIPI (Pisa, 1963) is one of the most influential authors on the international scene: he has been published worldwide and is the winner of prestigious awards in Italy and abroad, including nominations for the Premio Strega, the Premio Goscinny and the Fauve d’Or at the Festival International de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême and the Grand Prix de la Critique. For Coconino he has published Esterno night, Appunti per una storia di guerra, Questa è la stanza, S., LMVDM – La mia vita disegnata male male, Unastoria, La terra dei figli (which inspired the film of the same name directed by Claudio Cupellini) and Momenti straordinari con applausi finti. In 2022 he realized the first of three volumes of the space series Barbarone, produced by Rulez. He has directed numerous short films and two films: L’ultimo terrestre, presented in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, and Il ragazzo più felice del mondo, also presented at Venice. Always passionate about game design, he conceived and designed the card game Bruti. His latest book is Stacy (2023), which won the Micheluzzi Prize 2024 at the Comicon in Naples.
ANTONIO PRONOSTICO was born in Tricarico in 1987 and lives in Rome. Illustrator and cartoonist, he studied visual communication in Florence, where he started drawing. Together with screenwriter and director Fulvio Risuleo, he has produced for Coconino Press the comic books Sniff (2019), Cinque – Giovanni Truppi (anthology volume + CD, 2019), Tango (2021) and L’eletto (2024). He has collaborated with numerous magazines and newspapers, including “The New Yorker”, “L’Espresso”, “Internazionale”, “Domani”, “Jacobin Italia”, “Interni”, “Sotto il Vulcano” and with various publishers, including Il Saggiatore, Fandango Libri, Mondadori, Alegre. In 2023 he founded the Linea Bar project with Frita, Juta and Fulvio Risuleo, with which he published the album Aldo Paradossi intervista la mano (2024).
ISABELLA TIVERON (Treviso, 1997) has collaborated with the supplement La Lettura delle Ragazze e dei Ragazzi del ‘Corriere della Sera’, ‘Domani’, ‘La Chiave di Sophia’. His works include the illustrated book A spasso con Poldo, written by Walter Leoni (Editrice Il Castoro).