The short comic story is inspired by Melville and science fiction films.
The social comic series “SHORT PULP” by Davide Speranza and Luigi Mascolo is back, a web project published by Rivista Milena.
After the episodes Colaman (on eco-mafias), Goodbye Blue Sky-part one (on the war in the Middle East), and Bellosguardo (on the violence of technology), a story will be published that is clearly a tribute to Herman Melville's Moby Dick: Call me Ishmael.
The story (written by Davide Speranza and illustrated by Luigi Mascolo) is inspired by the great science fiction films: Alien, Planet of the Apes, Interstellar. A spaceship lost in deep space searches for a new planet to colonize. On the route it comes across a blue planet, which hides the secret of a forgotten people. The tutelary deity of the entire narration is an enormous white cetacean, which recalls Melville's Moby Dick and embodies the dark incomprehensibility of Nature, the brutalization of the human being destined to find redemption only in the roots of history.
SHORT PULP is a series of short comic stories. Using the genres of pulp, horror, noir, condensed within the anxieties of the new millennium, Short Pulp tells the contemporary time with all its contradictions. The themes addressed are of a social nature: from environmental devastation to war, to the effects of technology, but also friendship, sex, religious conflicts, immigration, politics, ethical issues, socio-economic and gender battles.
The creators and authors of the project and the comic stories are Davide Speranza (narrator, scriptwriter and journalist) and Luigi Mascolo (designer and graphic designer). From the idea to the subject, up to the script and then the comic drawing. Short Pulp aims to tell the story of society with a light and fast formula: the “pill” comic inserted into the web.
The appointment for the new issue of SHORT PULP – Call me Ismaele – is for Wednesday 3 January 2024 on Rivista Milena.
Article published on 3 January 2024 - 17:28
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