The death of a person raises endless questions, often destined to remain unanswered.

Some of these concern the objects that those who die leave behind: memories and symbols of real life that are suddenly left without of their intimate meaning ... even more so if the deceased is a mysterious and extravagant character who in his last will asks to be buried in the uniform of an admiral even though he has never held this role.
When the small anonymous narrator of this register, written and illustrated by Antonio Bonanno, he moves with his parents to the villa inherited from his eccentric grandfather, everyone's first thought is to finally cross the threshold of the Secret Rooms , three rooms where the old man spent long hours and which were closed to all the others.
Follow in religious silence the heirs of this singular character in the dim light of his mysterious rooms to discover the bizarre objects that are kept there. Let yourself be enchanted once again by the elegant ink hatching of the author, who, with his usual attention to detail, engages in the meticulous representation of useless inventions such as the "air chopping machine", bizarrely assorted hybrids like a cup-pipe and curious collections, like that of unmatched socks.
An evocative inventory of the objects that each of us leaves at the end of our passage on earth, and which continue to tell those who remain the stories of those who have gone away.

The author and illustrator:
Antonio Bonanno (born in Catania in 1970) obtained in 1988 the Diploma in applied art and the Diploma of Master of Art with specialization in advertising graphics. In 1992 he graduated in scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. He has worked as an art director and advertising graphic designer for Magma, Bound, Tamtam, StudioP, Mu and Salani editore, with whom he currently collaborates. He has drawn cartoons for the newspaper La Sicilia and illustrated covers and books for the publishing houses Édition du Lampion, HongFei Cultures, Marco Tropea editore, Edinova, Edizioni Amici, GG Studio.
His exhibitions have been set up at the 5e lieu salon in Paris, the Spazio Papel art gallery and the Gogol & Company bookshop in Milan, at the Nardini Bookstore in Florence, at the Comix Café in Grosseto, at the Feltrinelli and TribeArt in Catania, at the Cibrario in Acqui Terme, at the Happy Planet Art Gallery in Viareggio. His illustrations have been published in the #ILLUSTRATI magazines of #logosedizioni and in the catalog Mura maestre on the occasion of the VII competition for illustrators and cartoonists of Lucca junior 2013. He has taught illustration at the Invisible Art association in Grosseto and the Scandicci illustration school in Florence. He participated as an illustrator at CartoonVillage 2013 in Manciano, at Prato Comics & Games and at LuccaComics & Games.
He currently lives in Bergamo, where he works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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