It shakes me, it quakes me!

Art by Titta D'Onofrio

Above, a fantastic homage to Moore and Kev O'Neill's Cinema Purgatorio series by Italian comic artist and illustrator TITTA D'ONOFRIO. D'Onofrio is also the founder and art director of Sputnik Festival.

The illustration is a clear reference to Zimbel's Marilyn Monroe famous photos.

The image is included in Pelosi's essay book, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. 

 

For more info about D'Onofrio, visit his Instagram page.

Promethea by Chiara Raimondi

Art by Chiara Raimondi

Above, a great Promethea by Italian comic artist and illustrator CHIARA RAIMONDI.

The image is included in Pelosi's essay book, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. 

 

For more info about the artist, visit: Instagram - Behance - Twitter

A Small Killing by Christian Galli

Art by Christian Galli

Above, a fantastic illustration paying homage to Moore & Oscar Zarate's unsung masterpiece A Small Killing by Italian comic artist and illustrator CHRISTIAN GALLI.

Illustration included in Pelosi's essay book, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. 

 

For more info about the artist, visit his Instagram page: HERE.

V by Rise

Art by Rise

Above, a touching V for Vendetta homage by Italian illustrator, comic book artist and muralist RISE. The illustration is included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. Highly recommended!

 

For more info about RISE, visit the artist's Instagram page: HERE.

The Killing Joke by Federica Ferraro

Art by Federica Ferraro

Above, a stunning homage to seminal story The Killing Joke by Italian illustrator and comic book artist FEDERICA FERRARO. 

Illustration included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. 

 

For more info about Federica Ferraro, visit her Instagram page: HERE.

Supreme by David Bacter

Art by David Bacter

Above, a great Supreme cover from an alternative universe by Italian illustrator, painter and comic book artist DAVID BACTER. 

This homage is included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. 

 

For more info about David Bacter, visit his Instagram page: HERE.

The Tomorrow Syndicate by Claudio Calia

Art by Claudio Calia

Above, a perfect black and white shot of a key moment in American history featuring The Tomorrow Syndicate from the personal favourite 1963 miniseries. 

Art by Italian comic book artist and graphic journalist Claudio Calia.  

This homage is included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago.

For more info about the artist, visit his official site: HERE.

Polsino and The Extraordinary Gents

Art by Polsino

Above, a super illustration by Italian comic book artist Leonardo Lotti AKA Polsino. It features several characters and moments from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

This extraordinary homage is included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. Highly recommended!

For more info about the artist visit his Instagram.

La Came From Hell

Art by La Came

Above, a gorgeous, sooty illustration by Italian comic book artist and illustrator Laura "La Came" Camelli. This homage to From Hell is included in Francesco Pelosi's essay, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago.

For more info about La Came: Mammaiuto page - Instagram

Tom Strong and Tomorrow Stories by EMME

Art by EMME

Above, a spectacular illustration by Italian comic book artist Francesco Maria Ghedini aka EMME featuring Tom Strong and Tomorrow Stories' characters First American & U.S.Angel, Jack B. Quick, Cobweb, Splash Brannigan and Greyshirt. 

The illustration, in black and white, has been printed in Francesco Pelosi's book, Alan Moore: Mappaterra del Mago. The image is a clear homage to the Crimebusters' meeting in Watchmen.

 

For more info about EMME visit his Instagram page, HERE.

Art by EMME

The Crimebusters. Panel from Watchmen.

On the tombstone

Art by Alpraz

Above, Moore portrait by Italian artist Alpraz. The illustration is included in Pelosi's Moore book.

 

Below, a small excerpt from an interview originally published on Honestpublishing.com in 2011.

How do you want to be remembered?
Alan Moore: I don’t really much care, because I won’t be around to glory in it. I don’t know, as somebody who was a good writer, a decent magician and who tried to follow his path with integrity to the best of his ability. And also that I was really sexy. That would do. Put that on the tombstone. 

You can read the complete interview HERE.

For more info about Alpraz: official site.

Romantic Moore by Alessandro Aroffu

Art by Alessandro Aroffu

You should already know about Francesco Pelosi's upcoming book about Moore (details here). What you don't know (yet) is that my intro is enriched with a gorgeous illustration by my dear friend and excellent artist Alessandro Aroffu. You can admire it above. Below, some wip material.

 

The illustration pays a clear homage to Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog showing Moore in the company of some well-known beings from Idea-Space. Enjoy!

Alessandro loves creating stories and drawing comics. He is also a... beekeeper. All things are related!

For more info about Alessandro, visit his Instagram: HERE.

Wip art by Alessandro Aroffu

La Mappaterra del Mago... THE BOOK!

Cover art by Francesco Frongia

My dear friend, musician, comic book author and scholar Francesco Pelosi did it! 

He revised, expanded and collected the Mappaterra series of essays he wrote for the online magazine Quasi (in Italian, of course), and they will be printed in book form! In this volume (as he did in the articles) Pelosi traces a map of Moore's work, investigating his stories under the lens of Eternalism, spacetime theory, magic and the power of imagination. You can still read the complete series HERE. I think they could disappear from the Web sooner or later (paper rules!), so... hurry up!

 

The 268-page book will be released on the 30th of April, published by Odoya. It's highly recommended, especially if you can read Italian! ;)

With a fantastic cover by Francesco Frongia, the volume is enriched with amazing illustrations by Italian artists (in order of appearance) Alessandro Aroffu, La Came, Alpraz, Christian Galli, Claudio Calia, David Bacter, Francesco Frongia, Polsino, Emme, Chiara Raimondi, Lorenzo Palloni, Alessio Ravazzani, Titta D’Onofrio, Federica Ferraro, Sara Vincenzi, Officina Infernale, and Rise. 

Afterword by Paolo Interdonato and a foreword by... yours truly! Grazie mille, Francesco!

Please note that Pelosi contributed to the Alan Moore: Portraits with a "remixed" essay from the Mappaterra series. So, you can read it there in English! No excuses!

Again, I highly recommend Pelosi's book: it's an amazing reading!

La Mappaterra del Mago

La Mappaterra by Pelosi & Frongia

Italian musician, actor, comic book author and scholar Francesco Pelosi is writing a series of articles focused on Moore's works: he is tracing a map and he named it la Mappaterra del Mago... The Magician's Map-Land. I am really proud to call Francesco... a friend!

Below, I translated - with a little help from another friend of mine, the extraordinary Omar Martini - a short excerpt from one of Pelosi's articles which includes the map drawn by Francesco Pelosi & Francesco “Checco” Frongia.

You can read the complete set HERE. Of course they are in Italian.

From the corner where we are now, from the special and elevated point of view of Citadel Supreme, we can finally see the whole Map-Land: it spreads beneath us but, on a closer look, also above and all around us.
At the centre there is From Hell’s black city [...]. Watching it from here, you can notice that it is wrapped in the flames of the Voice of Fire and that there is a Hole at its centre: there is the same Hole also up here, in the Citadel Supreme, because the two cities are equal and opposite, one black and rooted to the earth, the other gold and floating. However, when they are watched from above, from a place outside the Map-Land, they occupy exactly the same space - the only difference is that to access Citadel Supreme you have to go through the door/outpost called 1963.

Around the city of From Hell, there is an area of barren and even darker countryside, with an unusual circular shape. If we could look at the Map-Land from below, we would see that those dark lands are nothing more than the foundations of Providence/Neonomicon, an upside-down city, whose roofs and buildings, like rotting and incomprehensible roots, plunge directly into the ground.
The dark circle of Providence is defined by a series of streets that form the sides of two equilateral triangles, crossing themselves to outline a six-pointed star.
One of the points, the one looking at the Map-Land from above, seems to point to the sky or the West: it is the place where the city of Promethea lies. On the other hand, on the opposite point which seems to indicate the ground or the East, lies the city of Tom Strong.

From here, heading south, we find the townlet of A Small Killing […], then the Top 10 metropolis and going westwards, just before arriving at Promethea, the Lost Girls hotel. Following this path, we can see that the outermost part of the Map-Land is circular and all the towns in this area are connected to each other by roads and, in the same way, each town is connected to the centre of From Hell.
Then, moving from Promethea and heading north, we find the old and crumbling city of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the five districts of Tomorrow Stories (which include the village of Jack B. Quick, the swamp of Splash Brannigan, the film-set city of First American and U.S. Agent and the metropolis of Indigo, also known, depending on which side you access it from, as Greyshirt or The Cobweb). Finally, closing the circle to the east, we arrive at the small town of Mirror of love […] and again at Tom Strong.

However, the most interesting thing you may notice from this high angle concerns the shape of the land. The Map-Land, as it has developed until now, looks like a two-dimensional rectangle. If you look at it closely, you can see four dotted lines rising perpendicularly towards the sky from the vertex of the rectangle corners, each touching the vertex of another dotted rectangle that closes the airspace as if it were a box. The Magician's Map-Land is therefore both a two-dimensional rectangle and a 3D rectangular parallelepiped. Ultimately - and how could it be otherwise - we find ourselves inside a Block-Universe/Idea-Space.
The name of this all-encompassing place is Jerusalem. 

Francesco Pelosi