Panic!: Pandemic Diary from Italy - Franceska Colombara

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Résumé :
?Panic!? tells the story about the three months quarantine of Diego and Viola, in a little flat in the suburbs of Bologna. Diego is afraid of everything and he wants to lock himself in his house for ever. Viola only wears pajamas and she's afraid that her family will become infected. They have a dog named Panic that will grow exponentially during lockdown, and they clean the grocery with the disinfectant gel. This comic is a magnifying glass on Viola and Diego's ecosystem: their home. It's the story of their anxiety. Panic is an autobiographical story, and it tells that even a home can be a crowded place.

Biographie:
Francesca Colombara is 26 a years old illustrator, 2d animator and author based in Bologna (Italy). Her short story 'I hate drawing' won the second place of the FRAME's 2019 best short comic. Her illustration was selected for the AIB exhibition (Italian Libraries Association) during the Children's Book Fair 2019 and artworks have been published in Cicla 2019 exhibition, in Shanghai for the International Children Illustration Bookfair. She collaborated with many independent magazines like Akulka, Capek, Mulieris and also co-founded a self-publishing project called CIANG, in collaboration with the illustrator Matteo Dang.