Stages & Workshops
Comics Workshop
Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th, Sunday 25th July
15.30 / 17.00 - Auditorium, Riminicomix tent-structure
(free entry, subscription required)
15 participants will learn how to make comics, under the lead of a professional comics artist. The workshop lasts three days and it is held inside the Riminicomix Auditorium. During this period, all the phases of the realization of a story are examined step by step: from the initial inspiration, to the idea, and to the subject, to the final script and the drawing. In a few words: what to write, how to write it and how to draw it with the appropriate terms, methods and instruments. Trying to understand how and why a dialog can be breathtaking or boring, if and when a panel is effective or obvious.
With the help of some examples of adapted panels, the teachers Stefano Tamiazzo and Francesco Frosi will help the students examine them in detail (dialogs, frames, the changes…) so to discover some of the masters’ secrets. The workshop also provides practical writing exercises, examined (and visualized) with the help of some guest cartoonists, and co-ordinated by Mauro Masi. In this way, the “students” will have the chance to verify directly how you can make a complete panel from a simple layout. Actually, there will be more than one possibility: each cartoonist in fact, has his own style and his own way to “translate” the words into images.
The workshop is free with prior registration (Cartoon Club Office: Tel. 0541/784193, segreteria@cartoonclub.it). Riminicomix will supply the material (paper, pens, pencils, etc.) necessary to make the exercises.
THE TEACHERS
Stefano Tamiazzo was born in Padova on July 30, 1968.
In 1994, he won the first prize at the “Review of comics and fantasy of Prato” with a story of eight tables (text colours and designs) entitled A Midnight Dream ... escape! The story will then be published in the coming years in various magazines and countries.
In 1997, he was the only western finalist (3rd prize) at the prestigious “Shikisho, Grand Prix of the four seasons” published by Kodansha with a science fiction story titled Nothing happens by chance, 71 plates in black and white and halftones published in Japan in the summer of 1997. Since 2000, he collaborated with the screenwriter Jean-David Morvan to a colour space opera in several volumes: The Mandiguerre (Editions Delcourt).
Alongside the work of the cartoonist, Tamiazzo has always done that of illustrator for newspapers, magazines, posters and theatre. Other collaborations include those with the most important Corriere della Sera, Spirou, Ducati Superbike and the manifesto of the “Japan Expo 2004” in Paris. Since 2004, he also takes care of the graphics department of the Philharmonic Theatre of Piove Di Sacco (PD).
He received two nominations as best comic books illustrator and a variety of Italian national and international prizes for satire and humour. His cartoons have been published in eight countries in the world. He is artistic director and professor of comics at the “International School of Comics” in Padova.
Francesco Frosi was born in Padova on March 20, 1971.
After graduating at the School of Comics "in Milan, from 1993 to 1999, he worked with the Messaggero dei Ragazzi as freelance illustrator. At the beginning of 2000, he produced a story for the series Anno Domini (Galaxy Press Ed.), the illustrations for three stories of Euretto Adventures (Polaris editions) and the graphics of the series A Colourful World (Ed. New Village). He was the graphic creator of the science fiction series Star & Mac Coy, of which he made drawings and colouring, in collaboration with the writer Mirko Perniola. Since 2009, he started his collaboration with the Giornalino (Edizioni Paoline) by drawing a 64-pages story, The lost class, with script by Marcello Toninelli.
He created stage designs for exhibitions, illustrations for brochures and leaflets, books and websites, and has exhibited his works at various exhibitions. Until 2009, he was designer for the company Art Project, which is specialized in the design of amusement parks. Since 2008, he teaches drawing for comics and illustration at the “International School of Comics” in Padova.
Above: a panel from La Mandiguerre, by Stefano Tamiazzo, and the cover of the first issue of Star & MacCoy, by Francesco Frosi.