«Tear along the edges», the first Netflix series by Zerocalcare

«Today, finally, is the day when I can answer: I’m doing this». Zerocalcare, which the few words he used to share online the video ad wanted by Netflix, broke the silence. Tear off along the edges, the first animated series produced by the streaming giant in Italy, and first, then, to be written and directed by the cartoonist, will debut on the platform “soon”.

“I’ve been around animation for a long time, even having a lot of fun experimenting, doing everything by myself,” explained Zerocalcare, who promised to find his usual characters in the upcoming series. Armadillo, who will be voiced by Valerio Mastandrea, Secco, the Wild Boar Friend, Sarah.

“At the same time, I would have liked to raise the bar, make more use of the video medium in terms of direction, movement, while maintaining my language and themes and continuing to have total control over the story. In this sense, Netflix has put me in a position to work in a way that holds all plans together: absolute freedom in content and languages, the possibility of collaborating with people more capable than me. We hope that when the series comes out, the world still exists more or less as we know it “, continued the artist, who, without revealing the plot of the series to come, wanted to take full responsibility for it:” It’s my stuff, which it means that if a shit comes, I’ll take it over.

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