In these days of alert Covid-19 if I have seen all the colors: supermarkets under assault, gel sanitizers and masks snapped and a psychosis of collective unprecedented in our Country. Scenes out of the ordinary, which is automatically associated with movies and tv series theme fantasy-horror movie, with zombies that rage on the streets of the metropolis in the world. These are the scenarios that inspired the cartoonist ligure Daniele Luciani, 44 years of age, to make his last comic-book “survival Guide to the Apocalypse Coronavirus, for young readers and nerds”. A strip that tells the story in an ironic way: the five points (plus one) of the list of good practices to avoid infection issued by the world health Organization. The protagonist is a young boy by the feet and big, but from the brain up trying to juggle the difficulties of a day at the time of the epidemic.
“In the world of comics are famous the guide for survival in the zombie apocalypse, ” explains Luciani –: are found both in the network, which in the paper version. Seeing what was happening, with the people taken by a collective hysteria, I immediately made a parallelism, and thus was born the list for the Coronavirus”. An idea was born one evening, before going to bed: “You know, when you prepare to go to bed and think back to what you did or what you saw during the day: I said, ‘it seems to be in an apocalypse zombie’”. The comic Luciani recounts faithfully the guidelines of the Who: “I have adhered to what has been said by the competent bodies. The ironic part is in the designs and in what they say, the characters”.
Thus, The young protagonist finds himself having to fight against the Covid-19: armed with an antibacterial and an unlikely brush away a horde of uncles, which, with the arms drawn forward, advancing as a zombie for a hug. The first rule, in fact, is to avoid close contact, even with friends and relatives. To the second point, it is recommended to wash your hands and not touching eyes, nose and mouth. But our young hero has the habit of nose picking, and found himself, without thinking, with the index stuck in left nostril: “Ops!”, he exclaims.
