SIBILLA: THE HEIR OF CAGLIOSTRO
Story: Pier Carpi; Art: Luciano Bernasconi.
Cover: Stephane Roux + Randy Lofficier
Story: Pier Carpi; Art: Luciano Bernasconi.
Cover: Stephane Roux + Randy Lofficier
7x10 squarebound comic,
56 pages
b&w
ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-236-4.
ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-236-4.
US$12.95.
https://www.hexagoncomics.com/shop-sibilla-the-heir-of-cagliostro.html
1. The Heir of Cagliostro
“Sibilla” is the nom-de-plume of Elena Drago, a woman who writes a popular astrology column for Flash, an Italian tabloid. But is that all that she is? Only her editor, Maria Carpi, knows that she is also a powerful medium and expert in the Occult.
The bossy but astute Maria teams "Sibilla" with her best investigative reporter, Leonardo Verga, a skeptic, to look into unexplained cases in order to generate sensational articles.
The ground-breaking first episode of this series about the Occult was originally published in 1975, written by renowned author, screenwriter and film director Pier Carpi, and drawn by legendary Italian artist, Luciano Bernasconi.
I had thought that I had reviewed this book before but realised that was just an "upcoming book" note. Sometimes its hards to remember what has been posted to this blog as there is a "lot" of posting!
1. The Heir of Cagliostro
“Sibilla” is the nom-de-plume of Elena Drago, a woman who writes a popular astrology column for Flash, an Italian tabloid. But is that all that she is? Only her editor, Maria Carpi, knows that she is also a powerful medium and expert in the Occult.
The bossy but astute Maria teams "Sibilla" with her best investigative reporter, Leonardo Verga, a skeptic, to look into unexplained cases in order to generate sensational articles.
The ground-breaking first episode of this series about the Occult was originally published in 1975, written by renowned author, screenwriter and film director Pier Carpi, and drawn by legendary Italian artist, Luciano Bernasconi.
I had thought that I had reviewed this book before but realised that was just an "upcoming book" note. Sometimes its hards to remember what has been posted to this blog as there is a "lot" of posting!
Love the cover and the interior art is excellent and shows why Bernasconi was rated as a top comic book artist. It's all stylish and 1970s looking and it is comparable to some of the exquisite black and white work we used to get in the old British comic weeklies when we had an industry. Cannot fault the art in any way. I also realised that it had a feel of the old 1970s TV series Ace of Wands about it so extra points there for bringing that memory back.
There is plenty of mystery, deception and intrigue and the story is still a good read. In fact it reads almost as a screenplay, not surprisingly. Really hope people give this book a chance as well as the other Hexagon books as they are hidden treasures and published for the first time in English -not everything has to be Marvel, DC or Image!
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