From April 30 to May 2, the streets of Naples are colored in black. This is the background color chosen as the theme for the twelfth edition of Comicon, international exhibition of comics, each year more and more full of events, meetings and manifestazioni.Fiumi black ink will flood the city, casting itself in every nuance, tone and shading, loads of a wild desire to tell and show many stories, from the most original and fantastic to the most real and sadly touching in their daily lives. The same ink, full of courage, fear, termination and redemption that used the journalist Giancarlo Siani Naples in his articles and now gives his story in a comic book entitled " And he smiles at me, my brother Giancarlo Siani " .
Pending publication by the publisher's Round Robin, 25 original drawings of the comic, written by Alexander of Virgil and designed by Emilio Lecce, are exposed on national premiere at the Fnac in Naples and will be accessible free of charge from the public until May 4. Through the eyes of his brother, Paul, unravels the short life of Giancarlo, the games with the ball when they were children, the preparation of the morning, going to the event in which a smiling Giancarlo drew a peace symbol on the cheek, to arrive at folly of that September 23, 1985, the day he was murdered by the Camorra killer under his house in Piazza Leonardo. The memory of Giancarlo, our Giancarlo, despite nearly 25 years have passed since his death, does not fade even for a moment. The trace of black ink left on our land, our lives, our hearts is brief but indelible, as the slope of this comic, yet another demonstration that to combat the Camorra, one must "speak out" and let it run, not as some would like to silence her instead.
Talking, singing, drawing and writing about the Camorra does not mean to advertise, but it appears, and report it to everybody and in all its forms. Pretending not to see it is pure hypocrisy.
(Published in "Torresette on 30 April)
Alister
