LMVDM - La Mia Vita Disegnata Male #[nn]

A quietly striking work from Italian cartoonist Gipi, this 2008 Coconino Press release presents an almost deliberately spare cover — bold red lettering spelling out "LMVDM" against a clean white background, with a small, solitary figure dwarfed beneath a lone exclamation point. That minimalist design perfectly mirrors the book's subtitle, La Mia Vita Disegnata Male ("My Life Drawn Badly"), hinting at the self-deprecating personal voice Gipi brings to the page. With every line on the cover — pencils and inks alike — credited to Gipi himself, this is an intimate, singular artistic vision from start to finish.