Publisher, Floating World Comics sez:

"Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called “the Michaelangelo of monsters,” “the Goya of comics,” and “the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists." A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns and science fiction to Rennaisance art and futurism, Buzzelli’s stories are a delightful, quasi-postmodern mishmash of high and low, showing an intricate hand and stylish narrative skill. The first of three volumes collecting Guido Buzzelli’s stories in English for the first time, includes The Labyrinth and Zil Zelub, two of the earliest Italian avant-garde graphic novels ever published. These fantastic and grotesque stories are the perfect introduction to Buzzelli’s work.  Translated by Jamie Richards. Introduction by Domingos Isabelinho."

Reading these stories it seems clear that while Buzzelli was – prior to this release – "virtually unknown in English", his works were almost surely on the radar of comcis creators of the western world – especially those working in the horror genre, and partciularly those whose work appeared in Warren mags like Creepy and Eerie.

Learn more about Buzzelli and his work – and have the opportunity to eyeball plenty of sample pages – in Valerio Stivé's rin-depth eview at TCJ, HERE.

INTRO SPECIAL PRICE

HP is the second volume in Floating World Comics' ongoing project to collect and translate this prominent Italian comics creator who has been largely overlooked here in the United States collects two graphic novels – HP and Morganna – that were originally published in Italy in 1974 and 1975 – fifty years ago.  Here's what Floating World Comics has to say:

'After creating the first independent graphic novel in Italy, the award-winning illustrator reinvents the genre comic.

The second of three volumes collecting Guido Buzzelli’s stories in English for the first time, this volume showcases two science fiction tales that turn the canon upside down, penetrating myth and tearing it apart. HP is a hallucinatory, Lovecraftian locomotive, an acrid parody of Italian westerns; while the alchemical retro-future of Morganna performs an autopsy of modern life’s horrors.

These fantastic and grotesque stories demonstrate why Buzzelli was called “the Goya of comics”. One of Europe’s most praised comics auteurs, the Ignatz nominated Buzzelli Collected Works are the perfect introduction to his masterful skill and subversive art."

Translated by Jamie Richards. Introduction by Domingos Isabelinho.

8.5" x 11", 168 pages
ISBN:  9781942801528