June 1991.<\/p>\n
The Queen have just given birth to Innuendo<\/em>, their last album with Freddie Mercury, The Silence of the Lambs<\/em> with Anthony Hopkins has scared the cinema audience and, most of all, Tim Berners-Lee, researcher at Cern, is about to announce to the whole world the solution to the problem of how to share documents among the scientific community using a software based on the idea of hypertext, which he himself has called World Wide Web: the site he puts on line is the first one in history, and o cially opens the Internet era. The story is well known, however it is worth going back to the beginning, so let’s recall it together: Nathan Never is an ex policeman and has a terrible past. His wife Laura has been killed by a criminal and their daughter Ann has been taken to a psychiatric structure, in state of shock after having witnessed her mother’s death. To pay for her therapies, Nathan, who had shut himself in a shaolin temple to learn martial arts, is forced to go back to work and accept a job as a special agent inside a private investigation company… This is where Nathan Never’s story begins. And now, after 25 years, it is time to celebrate. Special Agent Alfa actually started celebrating in April, first in comic book stores and in bookshops, then at the Comicon in Naples where, for the occasion, number 300 in color print was published, written by Bepi Vigna and visualized by Roberto De Angelis. And this is not the end. In May there was another great surprise for Nathan Never’s fans: the debut of \u201cNathan Never. Annozero\u201d, the first of the three mini series of six numbers that \u201cre-tell\u201d the past of our Special Agent Alfa. Many characters of comic books live in an eternal present, but this has never been the case for Nathan Never. Right from the start, my colleagues and I decided that in his stories the arrow of time could have aimed both towards the past as towards the future. We were going to allow ourselves generous leaps in the characters\u2019 memories, and frequent narrative prolepsis to anticipate future events. We were convinced that this very possibility of stretching within time would have become one of the key elements of the adventures we were about to create. MAGAZZINO DELLE IDEE<\/strong>
\nIn the course of this revolutionary 1991, exactly 25 years ago, the first number of Nathan Never <\/em>arrived in our news-stands, the first science fiction series by Sergio Bonelli Editore, created by Michele Medda, Antonio Serra and Bepi Vigna. It was immediately loved by the public, especially by those who had been conquered by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner<\/em>. As the authors themselves explain, indeed, Nathan Never<\/em> tells the story of a journey through time where you start from memories, but you are soon drawn towards the dream.<\/p>\n
\nThe exhibition presented at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival displays some precious drawings and original materials selected for the purpose, offering an unprecedented historical itinerary on the traces of collections and special numbers related to the universe of Nathan Never, that from 1991 to today counts over 70 thousand drawings and 582 covers. The exhibition is curated by alino&alina with Glauco Guardigli, Bonelli’s editor, and is organized with the collaboration of important collectors.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Bepi Vigna<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nfriday 28 october<\/strong>
\nopening ore 18.00
\nsaturday 29 \u2014 monday 31 october<\/strong>
\n10.00 \u2014 13.00 e 16.00 \u2014 19.00
\ntuesday 01 \u2014 sunday 06 november<\/strong>
\n10.00 \u2014 20.00<\/p>\n