On 22 May 2013 he disappeared don Andrea Gallo. Ten years after the cartoonist,Claudio Callia tells the story of the street priest with the graphic novel “I spread my arms and the walls fall. Don Gallo and his boys”, from May 16 in bookstores and digital stores with Feltrinelli Comics.
A work created in collaboration and with the patronage of the San Benedetto al Porto Community Association.
Interviewing those who knew him and collaborated with him, through testimonies and passionate dialogues, Calia writes and draws anon-classically hagiographic work, but focused on Don Gallo’s legacy, giving voice to the realities born and raised around his example. A karst work, in which biographical episodes of the don’s life emerge among the stories of the present.
“I tried to deviate from what we usually mean by “comic biography” – says the author – showing the subject as a child or inventing dialogues and scenes I could not have witnessed, for example. On the tenth anniversary of Don Gallo’s death, it seemed nice to me that he would come out with a book that is yes, the story of his life, but reconstructed through journalistic work. Thanks to the precious collaboration of the Community of San Benedetto al Porto, the Rooster somehow lives in this book through the voice of the people who knew him and what he left us that still lasts today, in an attempt to tell a story that is anything but what an end.”
A graphic novel to delve into the history of,church man who, as his friend De André sang, went into stubborn and contrary direction.