Igort

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Igort
Igort - Lucca 2017 01.jpg
Igort at the 2017 Lucca Comics & Games
Born
Igor Tuveri

(1958-09-26) September 26, 1958 (age 65)
NationalityItalian
OccupationComics artist Illustrator Film director
Years active1970s–present

Igort (born Igor Tuveri; September 26, 1958) is an Italian comics artist, illustrator, script writer, and film director.

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Biography

He began his career in Bologna at the end of the seventies, collaborating with numerous magazines: including Linus, Alter, Frigidaire, Métal Hurlant, L'Écho des savanes, Vanity, The Face. Since the nineties, he collaborates with the Japanese publishing houses Kodansha, Brutus and Hon Hon do.

In 1994 he exhibited his works at the Venice Biennale.

Igort at Lucca comics in 1998 Igort-by-joe-zattere.jpg
Igort at Lucca comics in 1998

In 2000 he founded the Coconino Press publishing house.

In 2002 he publishes 5 is the perfect number, a Neapolitan noir, that he began drawing in Tokyo and completed after about 10 years of processing and rewriting. The book, labeled Coconino Press, came out simultaneously in 6 countries and won the Book of the Year Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. It is Igort's most popular book to date.

Fats Waller will follow, an imaginative biography of one of the most popular Jazz musicians of the Thirties, in collaboration with the Argentine writer and screenwriter, Carlos Sampayo. Igort's work begins to spread further abroad. He moved to Paris and began the Baobab series, which tells the parallel lives of a Japanese boy (Hiroshi Oolong) and a young South American (Celestino Villarosa). Baobab series comes out simultaneously in Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Germany and the United States.

In 2010, after a long residence, between Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, Igort writes and draws Ukrainian Notebooks, published in the Strade Blu series of Mondadori.

In 2011 he published Russian Notebooks, drawn following a report by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja. The volume Pagine nomadi (Nomadic pages) follows, its publication coincides with the large exhibition dedicated to graphic journalism hosted at the Milan Triennale.

In 2013 he starred in the documentary Igort, the secret landscape, by director Domenico Distilo which illustrates the research carried out for the trilogy on the Soviet Union, the birth of the graphic novel and its relationship with the story through images.

In the last half of 2014, Igort announces on his personal Facebook page the publication of his next work, Japanese notebooks, a memoir, comic essay, travel book and drawn reportage that tells the author's years spent in Japan. In December of the same year Nostalgia is published, a book which is a preview of a work to be published. In November 2016, the novel My Generation comes out, which tells about the Punk and New Wave era. In the same month he released Gli assalti alle panetterie (Assaults to the bakeries), a volume written by Haruki Murakami that Igort illustrated with watercolors.

On 21 February 2017 Igort announces on Facebook that he leaves Coconino Press because he is no longer able to do his job there serenely. [1]

In 2019, Igort directed the live action adaptation of 5 is the Perfect Number , starring Toni Servillo and Valeria Golino. [2]

Main works

In English

In Italian

In French

La lethargie des sentiments. Albin Michel 1987

L'enfer des desirs Les Humanos 1989.

Sinatra. Amok 2000

5 est le numero parfait. Casterman 2002

Les Cahiers Ukrainiens. Futuropolis 2010

Les cahiers russes. Futuropolis 2012

Les Cahiers Japonais. Futuropolis 2015

Les cahiers Japonais tome 2. Futuropolis 2017

Les Cahiers Japonais tome 3. Futuropolis 2020

Encre sur papier. Ici Meme 2021

Kokoro – Le Son caché des choses. Ici Meme 2021

Journal d'une invasione. Futuropolis 2023

Awards

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