
I didn't understand very well initially what he wanted.


Lorenzo Mattotti: I was contacted by Lou Reed's agency to ask me if I was interested in a collaboration. This interview was conducted at 3:00 am between Seattle, WA and Paris, France.Įric Buckler: How did the Raven project come together? Mattotti creates images from these stories that help to unlock any hidden power the pieces may have, as well as perfectly stating the obvious elements. Mattotti has now collaborated on the book The Raven with Lou Reed, a project where he re-interpreted the works of Edgar Allen Poe and Lou Reed into creatures and situations in painting and illustration. His latest cartooning project was a collaboration with Claudio Piersanti called Stigmata, which follows a man who bleeds from his palms as he trudges down a dark path that mutates wildly from the straight and narrow. Having a cabaret of phantoms at his disposal, Mattotti has assembled comics that are a dangerous and dark exploration of human emotion. Lorenzo Mattotti is a talented necromancer his hands give life to some of the most charged and heart-pounding characters in cartooning and illustration today. note: Hi Lorenzo! We miss you in North America! xo janice) This interview was conducted by Fantagraphics' Eric Buckler.
