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Currently listening to this Polish-Norwegian new-wave band from the early eighties! An amazing band that my mom used to listen to in her early teenage punk years. Most of their stuff is in polish, as the frontman Andrej Nebb is from Poland. If you wanna explore international new-wave and punk this is a cool band to start with! There are a lot of cool norwegian punk and new-wave bands from the 70s and 80s that I might share in the future!
23 maja 1883 roku zmarł w Paryżu Cyprian Kamil Norwid.
De Press "Gromy i pyłki" z tekstami Norwida, jedna z najbardziej niedocenionych płyt.
Życie-czyż zgonu chwilką? Młodość-czyż dniem siwizny?... A ojczyzna-czy tylko Jest tragedią ojczyzny? /Tymczasem, CKN/
GIANLUCA ASCIONE - CENTAUROMACHIA OUT NOW
CENTAUROMACHIA è la prima zine di Gianluca Ascione per DE PRESS.
Sedici pagine fotocopiate b/n, formato A5.
Gianluca (già autore per Canicola, Feltrinelli etc.) ci fa imbucare in una festa speciale, un rituale panico, una battaglia che va avanti da millenni, il party peggiore degli ultimi tre anni e molto altro. Sedici disegni a grafite che ci hanno costretti a pubblicarli non appena li abbiamo visti. Portate da bere.
CENTAUROMACHIA is Gianluca Ascione’s first DE PRESS zine. A5 b/w photocopy, 16 pages, an absurd tale of old battles and myths, frat parties, vicious drinking and exploding hormones. Bring your own drinks!

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APATHY AND PHYSICAL ISSUES: A LORENZO MATTEUCCI INTERVIEW
Welcome to the first interview on the DE PRESS blog. Expect more to come from both our artists and other exciting voices in publishing, drawings, alt comics etcetera. Our first guest is Lorenzo Matteucci, longtime DE PRESS author with the Hommage series and his new zine, Lavoisier.
Hello Lorenzo, how you doin’?
Allright thanks.
Before getting into Lavoisier I’m curious about your past experiences. Your curriculum goes from design into illustration, but then your DE PRESS publications are mostly comics.
Yes I wasn’t expecting that too - I was even studying Contemporary Art before all that.
I like to think I was looking for some way to express myself in a more personal way, but I know that I ended up doing illustrations because I want to work as little as possible.
Speaking of which, doing a comic for DE PRESS was quite unusual, I have a troubled, complex and painful relationship with long drawing sessions, I don’t like to keep drawing the same characters in the same stories. My father calls me “Er Lavativo” [*roman slang for “skiver”]
Rare portrait of my father calling me and my friends “hobos” done in high school years by my friend Davide.
Speaking of your early works - the two issues of Hommage - you did experiment with comics and 3D graphics as well, what’s the reason for all this complex technicalities?
I was making it easier actually! I was really lazy and had some health issues at the time. I had some nerve injuries so basically two fingers in my dominant hand went AWOL. I could still use a mouse with my other fingers so I could do digital drawings and I wanted to dust 3D softwares off.
I did some pages and was quite happy with the results (even tho it was the beginning of a painful process) so I threw Simone (Proietti Timperi) aka Simoncino in the mix. He’s a Tennessee rap expert and we had history together involving some crazy college adventures, like eating Burger King at every lunch break for an entire week.
A great collaboration flourished, we had a lot of fun designing the whole comic together and making up apparently unreal stories.
I think Lavoisier and Hommage share some aspects of this workflow, even though you used a different technique and style. I feel like you keep approaching drawing as a design thing, starting with technical issues and getting creative working on that, does this make any sense?
Yes it does make sense, that’s true. There’s various reasons for this - my studies, my perfectionism, my interest into doing something new. I like choosing paper stocks, checking out the prints, doing things a little different from my usual practice. Self-publishing for me is all about experimenting and leisure.
Lavoisier is certainly less “comic” oriented than Hommage, but it’s still strongly focused on precise yet subtle narration, how difficult was to achieve this?
I had the story in my mind for a while, but I got to admit that translating that into a series of single illustrations was hard. I also had to pick stuff that I’d like to draw.
Any thoughts on the cover?
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a DE PRESS watermark
Speaking of your regular activity, are you ok about describing it as “freelance illustrator”?
Yeah you could say that.
[Mom says “bank transfer done”]
When you do a freelance work, is there any conflict between your doing personal research as an author and meeting the client’s expectations and/or the client’s desire to just get a certain “style” that he/she likes or feels right for the job?
The sooner you understand “author” and “client” have a hard time coexisting (for debutants especially) the sooner you can work without that weight on your heart.
Everyone’s going to ask for editing and adjustments, from the concept to the final. Sometimes art directors will ask a specific subject to draw. What I prefer to focus on (and keep working on) is my illustration’s recognizability. I care to express my mood and persona and looking at oneself through one’s own work is the funniest, most gratifying aspect of the job.
Right now I think there’s even too much hype and chit-chat around illustration. It’s something of a trend, for better of worse. Where an outsider may see a Never Never Land were you earn a living with your drawings, an insider sees an overcrowded, competitive place, polluted by people with no respect for the craft looking for easy cash.
What are your feelings about the term “conceptual illustration”?
It was all the rage some years ago; I thought it was fit to describe those works where the technical issues were overlooked to focus on expressing some original ideas. Nowadays even the ideas are overlooked and standardized, so it has become an umbrella term for downloading Procreate and spending your time on Instagram I guess.
SVOGLIATEZZA E PROBLEMI FISICI: INTERVISTA A LORENZO MATTEUCCI
oltre all’ampia offerta di guide, tutorial e approfondimenti, il blog di DE PRESS è uno spazio di dialogo e di conversazione. Per primo si sacrifica il nostro Lorenzo Matteucci, autore della serie di Hommage e della nuova zine Lavoisier.
Ciao Lorenzo come stai?
Tutto bene grazie
Prima di parlare di Lavoisier mi incuriosiva ricostruire il tuo percorso, perché ti sei formato come designer, poi come illustratore, ma su DE PRESS hai lavorato prevalentemente con il fumetto.
Sì, un percorso inaspettato anche per me considerando che prima ancora ero iscritto a Storia dell'Arte Contemporanea. Se da una parte mi piace pensare che nel tempo ho cercato qualcosa di più espressivo e personale, dall'altra so che sono arrivato all'illustrazione perché ho voglia di faticare il meno possibile nella vita.
A riguardo direi che il fumetto per DE PRESS è stato un evento eccezionale, il mio rapporto con le lunghe sessioni di disegno è complesso e sofferente, accuso molto la ripetizione dei soggetti e lo stare fermo su una stessa storia. Mio padre mi chiama "Er Lavativo".
Rare portrait of mi padre intento a chiamarci "Vagabondi" realizzato ai tempi del liceo dal mio amico Davide.
A proposito dei tuoi lavori precedenti, i due numeri di Hommage, oltre alla particolarità del linguaggio del fumetto, inseriscono anche l’elemento del 3D, perché hai deciso di complicarti tanto la vita?
In realtà ti dirò che me la sono facilitata! In quel periodo ero incastrato tra svogliatezza e problemi fisici. Nel dettaglio si trattava di una lesione di un nervo che ha fatto sì che due dita della mia mano smettessero di collaborare. Tutto è nato più o meno così: riuscivo ad usare il mouse con le altre dita e avevo voglia di rispolverare dopo anni i programmi per il disegno tridimensionale.
Buttai giù qualche tavola e mi resi conto che l'idea mi piaceva (ma anche che lo sviluppo sarebbe stato più sofferto del previsto). Tirai in mezzo Simone (Proietti Timperi) detto Simoncino, esperto di rap del Tennessee e compagno di mille avventure universitarie tra cui una settimana consecutiva di Burger King in pausa pranzo. Da lì è nata una grande collaborazione, ci siamo divertiti a progettare insieme ogni dettaglio del fumetto e a inventare storie che non ci siamo nemmeno sforzati di inventare più di tanto.
A proposito del tuo workflow per Hommage, anche in Lavoisier mi sembra che ci sia un meccanismo simile, nonostante le tecniche diverse. Mi sembra che tu ti approcci al disegnatore storie sempre come un designer, sempre partendo da questioni tecniche e progettuali, ha senso quello che ho detto?
Sì, ha senso ed è esattamente come dici. Credo sia un approccio dovuto ad un mix di trascorsi, perfezionismo e voglia di fare qualcosa di nuovo. Mi piace scegliere i tipi di carta, controllare la stampa, provare tecnicamente qualcosa di diverso da quello che faccio di solito. Diciamo che concepisco l'autopodroduzione come esperimento e scappatoia.
Rispetto ad Hommage, Lavoisier è sicuramente meno “fumettistico”, ma rimane un lavoro fortemente narrativo, con una storia raccontata con molta precisione ma anche in maniera molto sottile, quanto è stato difficile farlo?
Avevo già in mente la storia, e devo ammettere che raccontarla attraverso una raccolta di singole immagini non è stato facile. Per di più dovendo selezionare oggetti che avessi voglia di disegnare.
Cosa ne pensi del colore della copertina?
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a (De Press) watermark
Riguardo alla tua attività parallela, si può dire che lavori a tutti gli effetti come illustratore freelance?
Si, si può dire.
Quando devi affrontare lavori di illustrazione, avverti un contrasto tra la ricerca autoriale e la necessità di soddisfare i desideri di un cliente, che magari vuole solamente che le illustrazioni rispettino un certo tipo di stile che piace a lui (o che lui immagina possa piacere ai propri clienti)?
Prima si arriva ad accettare il fatto che le parole "autoriale" e "cliente" difficilmente coesistono (specie agli inizi) e prima si inizia a lavorare a cuor leggero.
Verranno sempre chieste modifiche e adattamenti, dall'idea alla realizzazione. A volte sono gli stessi direttori dei lavori a proporti cosa disegnare. Quello su cui ho lavorato nel tempo (e su cui non smetto di lavorare) è la riconoscibilità delle mie illustrazioni. Ci tengo a far trapelare il mio mood, la mia persona: rispecchiarsi nel proprio lavoro è l'aspetto più gratificante e divertente del mestiere.
Adesso credo ci sia anche troppa attenzione attorno all'illustrazione, troppo rumore. È finita per essere un trend, con pro e contro del caso. Dall'esterno è il Paese dei Balocchi dove si campa disegnando, dall'interno è un mondo sovraffollato, competitivo e inquinato da chi punta a portare a casa la pagnotta senza uno straccio di amore per se stesso e per la professione (DM PER NOMI E COGNOMI)
Cosa provi quando senti parlare di “illustrazione concettuale”?
Qualche anno fa era un appellativo molto in voga; personalmente ci identificavo quel tipo di illustrazioni dallo stile simile, in cui la tecnica passava in secondo piano rispetto all'originalità dell'idea. Adesso anche le idee sono tutte uguali, quindi è diventata quell'illustrazione in cui hai scaricato Procreate a passi la giornata su Instagram.
Ricorda che qui puoi acquistare Lavoisier, la nuova zine di Lorenzo, e tutti gli altri titoli DE PRESS ^_^
HOW DOES IT WORK?
welcome to the DE PRESS blog. We are not a publishing house, but we publish things that you can find in our SHOP. This is our first tutorial and more will come, alongside with features, critical theory essays, interviews etcetera. We want to start humble tho, so this tutorial will simply explain how all the whole publishing enterprise works.
1 - SERIOUS PUBLISHING
An author does stuff using her/its/his feelings, etcetera. A publisher gets interested in the stuff from a commercial or artistic point of view, so they strike a deal. The publisher gets the book done (editing, designing) and pays a printing press to realize the book (employing various machines and resources such as paper, ink, etc.). The publisher may have other deals with distributors to get the book to big bookstores, independent bookstores, online... author and publisher then proceed to promote and advertise the book to get people to buy it: press releases, talks, exhibitions, awards, social networks. This is a finely tuned system where every agent earns money depending on how good they manage to work.
Publishers get a share of the book’s sales (some of that will be spent for printing and distributing). Bookstores buy books from the distributors, so they get a little slice depending on the distributor’s discounts. Authors get the royalties, which are stated in the deal, which may include an advance payment for some of those. Social networks get a lot of money because everyone does sponsored content and we live in a society. Right now distributors get the largest slice of the cake.
2 - SELF PUBLISHING, OR LESS SERIOUS PUBLISHING, OR SMALLER PUBLISHING WITH A HEART INSTEAD OF COLD BLOODED DEALS AND COMMERCIALISM
An author does stuff using her/its/his feelings, etcetera. She/it/he doesn’t look for a publisher, or maybe is not interested in that or maybe it’s the depression talking. If the author got some spare money, she/it/he can deal with the book design and printing herself/itself/himself. Maybe the author goes full D.I.Y. or pays some print-on-demand service. The author then proceeds to promote the book on appropriate channels (internet, festival, those few joyful bookstores that deal with self-publishing and zines). Maybe the author is going to establish a collective with fellow authors so they can help each other. Everyone complains because no one is getting enough attention from the right circle (even “serious publishing” authors complain and even everyone else is free to complain about anything anytime).
The author pays for everything but gets all the money (usually tax free). The author pays for all the promoting and such (horrible train tickets to get to your little table in your nice festival). Such books will not go through “business” distribution but mostly through postal services. Bookstores will get a slice of the sales, plus they feel like promoting small independent authors and such.
Crystal clear this food chain looks a lot like the previous one but it’s actually way more detached from the actual “market” so it’s way more subject to various degrees of failures, misdemeanors and generally bad strategies.
3 - BOOKS KILL
All the elements of this book-making food chain operate in a capitalistic market. This means you are compelled to earn money and you should not waste the money you get but make more, otherwise you’re a failure and you’ll get booed. There are some little people living outside the market tho: the authors get (some) rights and the royalties, usually around 4% (your publisher is lame) to 10% (your publisher is angel) and more (stick to your publisher until you die). No author is so valuable to earn a continuous salary. The current system is designed to get! more! books! published! all! the! time! so a successful author will mostly be damned to keep making book after book after book and no one cares if you are a mess and should need some time off to find something meaningful to put in the books, just give! me! another! book! Most authors are happy to be guinea pigs in the wheel tho, because a book may lead to more jobs, more works and more street cred so your prices get up - this is what everyone hopes the day a new book is published and do the little “my thing is out thanks to everyone involved” thing.
We should never forget that the “author” “profession” is liminal between creativity, artistic work and a job, so it’s way easier to do it if you can already afford it. If you are in such a lucky situation, you may have a hard time getting your rightful street credibility but you still had a chance to do it without thinking too much about the bills and such, otherwise Death will knock at the door. She will eventually knock at everyone’s door of course, unless the distributors are piling up huge money stashes to finance eternal life research (probably not the case).