An atypical collection, in which Zerocalcare deals with important themes, before indulging in a long personal digression. From the condition of prisoners at the beginning of the pandemic, to the importance of local healthcare, from the seduction of the denunciation of "cancel culture" to the living conditions of the Yazidis in Iraq, this weighty volume offers no discounts to the reader. In the final story, the author recounts the doubts and anxieties of the last year, in which the world was wondering about the future and he was trying to understand once and for all what to do when he grows up.

Macerie prime was released in November 2017 , a two hundred page volume with the first half of a story that Zerocalcare particularly cares about. Now, six months later, the conclusion comes out, created with the intention of giving a unique reading experience: for the reader, six months have passed, as well as for the characters of the story, who have not seen or talked to each other for six months. they feel. How will the announcement go, to which so many hopes were attached? And the trial against Secco? Has Boar become a father?

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Eighteen years old, and a bulky lie: Zero tells his mother every morning that he goes to university, but in reality he spends five hours sitting on the subway, from terminus to terminus. This is how he meets Arloc, a boy a little younger than him who has other reasons for wanting to waste his days in a subway car in Rome. As their friendship deepens, the shadows in Arloc's life and psyche merge with the darkness of the drug-dealing world of suburban Rome. A graphic novel that Zerocalcare defines as "more heinous than usual" straddling reality and invention, between today and twenty years ago, between fear of the future and that of the present.

"The hassle squad's phonebook" is the second collection of stories that appeared on zerocalcare.it. Bittersweet, as it is in its most intimate style, Zerocalcare tells itself by retracing the stories of the last two years of the blog, including the now classic "Save every five minutes", "When a famous man dies", "I quarrels on the internet" and " The demon of availability".

Zerocalcare (the character) is in a coma, the zombies are about to decimate what remains of the population of Rebibbia and it's up to Secco, Katja and their friend Boar to find a way to escape from a now compromised situation. Taking a break from his usual gaze on the world (and from himself as the protagonist) Zerocalcare (the author) lets his innumerable apocalyptic paranoias go full steam ahead and tells an adventurous story of revenge, rancor and hope for the future, which makes the wide tour to explain the unshakeable love for a neighborhood that the whole world believes to be just a prison.

Almost two years of blogging. A very entertaining generational cross-section, but far from disengaged; the manifesto of a generation, told through the multifaceted manifestations of Zerocalcare's conscience, morals and culture, ranging from the ever-present armadillo to an infinite number of icons of animation, TV, pop culture between the 1980s and Ninety. Accompanied by almost fifty pages of unpublished color material, "Every Other Damn Monday" is the largest volume of Zerocalcare stories so far and documents in an honest, amused and ruthless way the loss of illusions and the need to prolong the time in which we can say we are responsible, without admitting that we are adults.

When the last vestiges of his childhood are taken from him, Zerocalcare discovers unsuspected secrets about his family. Torn between the soothing numbness of the innocence of youth and the impossibility to elude society's ever expanding control over people's lives, he'll have to understand where he really comes from, before he understands where he is going.

Three friends, their schoolgrounds, a secret. And fifteen years later, the discovery that they all thought there was only one secret, but each had their own. And there was one more, bigger than the others, that none were aware of. This is Zerocalcare's second graphic novel, the one that made him stand out as an intelligent, delicate, merciless narrator when it comes to describing his own weaknesses, which may be everyone's. A complete story in three parts at different times in the coming of age of young Calcare; three moments that have in common the all-too-familiar feeling of having tentacles at the throat.

Kobane Calling is the autobiographical memoir of a young Italian cartoonist, writing and drawing under the nom de plume Zerocalcare, who volunteers with the Rojava Calling organization and heads into the Middle East to support and observe the Kurdish resistance in Syria as they struggle against the advancing forces of the Islamic State. He winds up in the small town of Mesher, near the Turkish-Syrian border as a journalist and aid worker, and from there he travels into Ayn al-Arab, a majority-Kurd town in the Rojava region of Syria. nAs he receives an education into the war from the Kurdish perspective, he meets the women fighting in the all-female Kurdish volunteer army (the Yekeineyen Parastina Jin, or Women’s Defense Units), struggling to simultaneously fight off the Islamic State even as they take strides for Kurdish independence and attempt a restructuring of traditional patriarchal Kurdish society. In a story and style at once humorous and heartbreaking, Zerocalcare presents clear-eyed reportage of the fight against the Islamic State from the front lines.