RAGAZZO
presentation of ZUZU‘s graphic novel in conversation with Simonetta Sciandivasci

Following the success of Cheese and Giorni felici, ZUZU continues to explore and narrate the fragility of feelings and the complexity of relationships, the desires that make us fly and the fears that cage us. She does so with Ragazzo, a moving, delicate, and powerful choral tale about the anxieties of youth that continue to echo within us even in adulthood.
Andrea, a high school student, suddenly disappears without a trace, and around this absence unfolds the story of Francesco and Alice, who fall in love at school and seem already on the verge of losing each other. Alice may be the last person to have seen the missing boy at a party. And then there is Rita, Andrea’s mother. They say she is crazy, but perhaps she is just struggling to raise a child on her own. While the search continues relentlessly, on the streets and through appeals on television, their lives go on as if guided by a mysterious force.
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ZUZU is an artist born in Salerno. At the age of twenty-three, she published Cheese, her award-winning debut comic book, and in 2021 Giorni felici (Happy Days), a book nominated for the Strega Prize. Both works have been translated into French, Spanish, and German.
She hosted the Fumetti Mon Amour column on Rai’s Play Books. She also works as a screenwriter for film and television and as an illustrator for international magazines.
She draws and dances whenever she can. She is vegan, in love with Pigi, and their dog is called Edison.