Zerocalcare, the new Netflix TV series: everything we know so far

“That’s how it was.” The alter ego of Zero limestone comic would say more or less these words to comment on the gigantic success of Tear along the edges, the cult series that debuted on Netflix a year ago. And now the designer of records tries again, raising the bar but without giving up his trusted friend, the Armadillo, always with the voice of Valerio Mastandrea.

Indeed, the streaming platform just announced another series (and no, it’s not season two of the previous series): is called This world won’t make me bad and arrives in 2023. The title is already a whole program because it seems to encapsulate the poetics and civil commitment of Zerocalcare, which alla Venice Film Festival made a foray into cinema with the film Margins.

The announcement to his followers (there are over a million on Instagram) obviously comes with one of the irreverent tables, in which mocks the supreme authority of the one it calls The Scarlet Lord, i.e. Netflixwith strict protocols, the dissemination of news and global events for fans (above all, the Tuduum).

The 38-year-old artist from Arezzo (born Michele Rech) always does this, uses self-irony and belittles himself because in reality he seems to feel a certain discomfort in the face of this now gigantic fame. It is no coincidence that Milan dedicates it to him a titled exhibition After the bang (from 15 December to 7 April 2023 at the Fabbrica del Vapore), with 500 original plates, illustrations, sketches and videos in an ode to collective resistance.

It is enough then to retrace the latest stories to see the enormous amount of hours he dedicates to meetings with the public. No, they are not mere signed copies of the last book, No sleep til Shengal (Bao Publishing), not just quiet Q&As, but real marathons in which the cartoonist stays up until the wee hours every night to satisfy the increasingly numerous readers who ask him for the drawing he renamed FirmaDillo. Zerocalcare doesn’t just make a scribble as an autograph on the page of the volume, no, give each person in line a drawing of their Armadillo in different variations.

Some might think that it is part of the game, that it is the price to pay for celebrity, but a generosity like yours is outside the box, beyond any calculation, beyond mere profit. It could do much lessavoid meetings in service stations in some ramshackle room in the middle of nowhere and reserve only noble appointments, where you shake hands in favor of the room. But no, he always feels this sort of debt of gratitude towards those who believe in him and in his work and who think they will never be able to repay.

So yes, he deserves all the success he has and so much more because he remains an artist but also one of the people, and he seriously embarrasses himself – not out of feigned modesty – in front of microphones and interviews. He would do without it because he would like his creatures born on pen and paper to talk to him. Luckily The Scarlet Lord has recruited him and he cannot answer him: «I’ll reach you with the thing».

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