![]() ![]() The Grand Prize Winner will receive a Big Ticket to HOW Design Live, a main-stage trophy presentation celebrating their work, and other exclusive opportunities on-site, including a lunch date with a HOW Design Live speaker of their choice* (*pending speaker availability), and an i nvitation to the official Speaker Reception with industry movers and shakers at HOW Design Live. Six entries will be spotlighted as “Best of Region” winners, and receive in-depth coverage within the book. Take a look at the career-boosting prizes up for grabs:Īll winners will see their work in Print’s 365 Days of Design Inspiration, a gorgeous hardcover book showcasing the best from today’s leading art directors, studios and creative professionals. The advantages of winning PRINT’s RDA stretch far beyond national recognition. And if you’re still puzzled, just check out these images. Zeno Porno and the Magnificent Desolation, anyone?įun is fascinating, and well worth re-reading. Let’s hope more translations will soon follow. His finely detailed and lovingly rendered linework is elegant and beguiling, akin to Moebius, Tardi, Manara and other 1970s and ’80s Euro comic art masters, and with touches of our own Clowes, Crumb and Bechdel. Already acclaimed internationally, Fun is his first introduction to an English-speaking audience, and was hailed on several of last year’s Best Comics lists here in America. ![]() He himself has been one of the most successful and beloved comics artists in Europe since the 1980s, and he recently won the Naples Comicon’s Micheluzzi Award for best designer. Much of the tale is set in New York City and Bacilieri’s native Milan. And since Fun’s subtitle is Spies, Puzzle Solvers, and a Century of Crosswords, there’s also a mystery, with cryptic, coded, criss-crossing clues and investigators such as Dick Tracy and Batman. And hell, yeah it’s meta: The main characters are a Disney comics writer and an Umberto Eco–like author who’s researching a history of crosswords. So crossword boxes and cartoon panels continually intersect in a variety of richly intricate page compositions. ![]() For starters-literally-in 1913 the very first crossword appeared side-by-side with the early cartoons that ran in the New York World’s “Fun” supplement. There are stories within stories, layers upon layers, complex yet clear, weaving together a century of such disparate entities as Spider-Man, Salinger and Simon & Schuster.įun is also a graphic history of the funnies, because Bacilieri is also exploring several significant similarities between comics and crosswords. This Fun is vigorous, spirited and assured in its graphic experimentation. Also horizontally and vertically: forget strict linear structure, which is just ho-hum. And yes, Italian artist Paolo Bacilieri delivers the fun, both narratively and visually. If it’s a nearly 300-page graphic novel about the history of crossword puzzles, and it’s titled Fun, then it better be pretty damn entertaining. Special early-bird pricing for HOW Design Live, one of the largest annual gatherings of creative professionals in the world, ends March 15. ![]()
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