Fellini in Rome, published by Astiberri, is a work by Tyto Alba in which he tells episodes of the life of the famous Italian director with the eternal city as a background

Fellini in Rome It is a comic that has done These albums During your stay in ASpanish cademia in RomeThanks to a scholarship Foreign Ministrywhere he could absorb the aroma of the city of Romolo and rowingwhere he had previously traveled Federico Fellini. Was originally published by Festive In 2017, but it was reprinted and published in 2025.

This new impression of Tyto Alba’s work still has the same strength and beauty That in his first publication, with which he adds a good option for those readers who want more personal works, far from the current of the great editors of Superheroes, where Astiberri has a magnificent catalog with works such as: The Body of Christ Bea PlantingNobody from Jeff Lemire or transitory of Nadar.

Federico Fellini He was an Italian director, born in Riminibut almost all his life in Romewhere he died, inside 1993at 73 years old. Among his successes the director obtained Four Oscars from Hollywood and will always be remembered by films such as Eight and a half, On the street or The Dolce Vitawhere one of its protagonists, Paparazzohas appointed a type of photographers … paparazzi.

The plot

Federico Fellini Sufre de insomnia In his Roman nights, so his mind divides himself until the arrival of dawn and does so Insert a very personal RomeWhere he travels among his memories, his thoughts, dreams and people who have influenced him, so this dream sign of walking will be very vivid and fun.

Fellini shows his personal evolution, therefore it is an atypical biography of the director, who through small fragments shows his career and his personal life, where the reader will meet Giulietta Masinahis wife; one of his favorite actors to make the protagonist of his films as he was Marcello Mastroianni; or the actress Anita Ekberg. All this while walking Trastevere, Via dei Fori Imperiali oa Plaza de España.

Tyto Alba’s work

The badalonés These albums He is an expert in showing biographies through the ninth art, therefore Fellini in Rome is no exception and the author knows how to synthesize the exciting life of the director born in Rimini in just eight dozens of pages, showing famous spaces of the Eternal and relevant city for the director.

Through a screenplay With small squeezing in Rome, he shows the passionate relationship that Fellini had with her, both the love and the disagreement. The fact of placing different moments of the director’s life in specific places in the city gives rise to showing the vision of the protagonist, but also how his work is a collective dream.

His drawingWith the use of a simple and free blow, it makes the cartoons very expressive, therefore they evoke in a very present way the sleep in which the protagonist is involved, enriched by Tyto Alba with the use of the atella to obtain a palette of soft colors. This dreamlike atmosphere immerses the reader in a well -known but very personal and narrow Rome, causing even more empathy with the protagonist.

Edition

Fellini in RomeFrom These albumswas published by Festivewithin yours collection Orejero armchairIn axiswith a format of 17 x 24 cmIn color and with an extension of 80 pages.

An old Fellini Fellini who suffers from insomnia wakes up every morning and takes long walks through the city of Rome, waiting for dawn. Sometimes I dream. Then he grabs one of his notebooks and draws those dreams as he made for almost thirty years on the recommendation of his psychiatrist.

During his departures, the memories related to the Rome area come to mind where he walks; Anecdotes of his arrival in the Eternal City, when he tried to survive around the Termini station, of his beginnings as a street cartoonist in via Veneto, of his entry into the satirical magazine Marc’Aurelio, of the war …

Felines known and dreams occur with his travel companions: Giulietta Masina, Aldo Fabrizi, Rinaldo Gelen, Roberto Rossellini, Liliana Betti … also with Dalí, his admires Dick Tracy, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Circus, the Mastroian, Paolo Pasolini, and already among the hospitals, with the hospitals. Mastorna, the mythical character of that film that would never have made.

For the realization of the watercolors that recreate the life of the exclusive Italian director, the Catalan author, in addition to using an extraordinary bibliographic documentation, has traveled by many scenarios for which Fellini himself has wandered to obtain an external residence.