Elisabetta Mongardi

Elisabetta Mongardi is one of the curators of A occhi aperti, and formerly of BilBOlbul International Comics Festival. As a member of Hamelin, she has co-curated numerous shows, including monographic exhibitions by Chris Ware, Dominique Goblet, Yvan Alagbé, Amandine Meyer and several collective shows. She teaches comics to education professionals, and holds visual literacy workshops for kids. 
With Hamelin, she is co-curator of the Comics Corner programme at Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
She has translated comics by Jillian Tamaki, Conor Stechschulte, Max de Radiguès, Ludovic Debeurme and many others.
book Monday 3 Nov H 18:30
DAS - Dispositivo Arti Sperimentale

Cannon

Presentazione del graphic novel di Lee Lai

chair Elisabetta Mongardi, Marco Libardi

with Lee Lai

In her latest graphic novel, Lee Lai—an award-winning transgender cartoonist born in Melbourne and based in Québec—tells a powerful, poignant story of friendship between two second-generation Asian queer girls. Against the backdrop of a scorching Montreal summer, amid a cast of unlikely, fleeting partners, the friendship between Cannon and Trish is tested by their growing awareness of impending adulthood.

It’s a tale at once unsettling and delicate, funny and heartbreaking, whose themes will remind many readers of the finest work of Ocean Vuong.
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in collaboration with Gender Bender