Manuele Fior

"Italy, 2048. One generation feels old, tired, finished. The younger advances new values and models of cohabitation and family. In the sky, strange, bright triangles appear to bear mysterious messages from an extraterrestrial civilization. This new graphic novel, from the author of 5,000 KM Per Second, is a science fiction story that eschews the stars in favor of the delicate, nuanced world of human emotion. It's a moving story about the passage of...

"Celestia has become an outpost for criminals and other misfits, as well as a refuge for a group of young telepaths. Events push two of them, Dora and Pierrot, to flee the island and set sail to the mainland. There, they discover a world on the precipice of a metamorphosis, though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses, unintentionally preserving the "old world" at a time when a new generation could guide society...

"In this collection, two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlin's Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold Böcklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece, The Island of Death; and, an immigrant grandmother tells the story of how she escaped war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical...