Pazienza was Italy's leading "underground" cartoonist / comics maker.  Influenced in equal measure by European fine art, bande dessinee and American comics – especially those of the underground variety – he forged a unique synthesis on the narrative as well as the pictorial plane, and in the process opened up new avenues for the up and coming generation of European comics makers that followed him.  Zanardi was his most famous creation, and this volume collects it's blurred, frantic, often violent, and occasionally highly problematic representations of femininity, masculinity and their respsective interplay, in its entirety.