Giuseppe Palumbo, Golden Romics of the XXXIII edition

The author and Italian designer awarded the Gold Romics: from Ramarro, the first masochist superhero, to Diabolik, the King of Terror.

Giuseppe Palumbo, author and designer, will be celebrated with the award of the Gold Romics during the XXXIII edition of the Festival, scheduled from 3 to 6 October 2024 at Fiera Roma.
Multifaceted artist, with his unmistakable style has touched the most diverse narrative genres, also giving rise to different and original initiatives.
Cartoonist and professor of illustration and comics, he was born in Matera in 1964 and began his career in 1986 in magazines such as Frigidaire and Cyborg, creating the character of Ramarro, the first masochist superhero. In 1992 he joined the staff of Martin Mystère of Sergio Bonelli Editore.  In 2000 with Astorina, he made the longest and most prolific collaboration of his career as a designer by joining the staff of Diabolik. He also reconstructs, on a script by Alfredo Castelli, the first issue of Diabolik, published by Astorina in 2001 in the hardcover volume Il Re del Terrore: il remake. Since 2005, the publishing house Comma 22 of Bologna, dedicates to Palumbo a series of volumes opened by Diary of a madman, adaptation of a story by Lu Xun, and followed by CUT Cataclysm, which collects all the stories of Cut produced until 2006 for the Japanese publishing house Kodansha; in collaboration with Palazzo Strozzi Firenze, publishes Eternartemisia.

In the field of illustration, he has been the cover artist of Mondadori’s Gialli Junior series for about ten years, and since 2003 has been the official cover artist of Stefano Benni’s novels for Feltrinelli. 

He has collaborated with numerous publishing houses, including Mondadori, Feltrinelli, Coconino Press and Oblomov, as well as with newspapers such as Unity, the Manifesto, the sole24ore, SlowfoodMagazine. With Rizzoli he published several works, including Tomka, il gitano di Guernica (2007), on texts by Massimo Carlotto, and Un sogno turco (2008), on texts by Giancarlo De Cataldo. With Lavieri he published in 2013 Uno si distrae al bivio - La crudele scalmana di Rocco Scotellaro, illustrates Take a Hare by Biagio Bagini; in 2014, with Giulio Giordano at the drawings, he created I cruschi di Manzù. Between 2016 and 2017, it comes out in France, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, the biography Escobar - El Patròn, su testi di Guido Piccoli, edita da Dargaud. In 2017 he began collaborating with Comics & Science/CNR editions. For Coconino Press, he writes and draws 16 possible uses of a mausoleum in the series "Comics in museums", promoted by Mibact, dedicated to the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna.

In 2017, with Pierangelo Di Vittorio and Alessandro Manna of the interdisciplinary collective Action30 (a collective born in 2006, of which he is one of the founders) he published Bazar elettrico - Bataille, Benjamin, Warburg at work, which inaugurated the series Action30 Graphic Essays. Always supported by Giulio Giordano and Gianfranco Giardina in 2018 he writes La visione di Mallet.

His most recent works include his self-produced editions: Al bivio - la giovane scalmana by Rocco Scotellaro, with Maurizio and Matteo Camerini, and Costellazione Basaglia, with Pierangelo Di Vittorio and the collective Action30.

He has taught since 2011, Illustration for publishing at ISIA in Urbino, in the biennium Illustration. 

Recently published is La sola cura, a comic biography published by Oblomov with the support of APT Basilicata, which narrates the life of the Lucan doctor Ludovico Nicola di Giura.

During the XXXIII edition of Romics, Giuseppe Palumbo will be the protagonist of a special meeting that will retrace the fundamental stages of his artistic career and an exhibition dedicated to his works.