Giuseppe Salvia is Deputy Director and Head of the maximum security department of the Poggioreale prison, Naples, when he is assassinated by the Nuova Camorra Organizzata on the orders of Raffaele Cutolo, for having been a point of resistance in the fight of the State against the Camorra.
The solidarity Comic Card #33 is dedicated to the memory of Salvia and to all the innocent victims of the mafia. It was April 14, 1981, when Giuseppe, 38 years old married with two daughters (Antonino and Claudio), returning from work, was followed and shot to death in a cowardly ambush on the Naples ring road, by a commando from the area by Ponticelli.
The decision to draw him in front of a foosball table is a happy intuition of the Salvia family, following the information gathered on the setting that solidarity stickers often have. The aim is also to want, in some way, to “humanize” those who fought against mafia power and were unfortunately often killed for it. Giuseppe Salvia was not an ordinary man, of great values and sound principles, but he was also a person, a father, like many others, with his passions, such as that for table football.
The splendid drawing of the card was created by Italo Mattone, professor at the International School of Comics in Naples and well-known cartoonist for publishers such as Eura, Renoir and Sergio Bonelli Editore, in particular for the Julia, Martin Mystère, Odessa and Saguaro series.
The Comic Cards linked to the support of associations, realities and non-profit organizations against the mafias, have a circulation with an extremely symbolic number, 109, like the 1996 law for the public and social reuse of assets confiscated from the mafias.
FIGURINE FOREVER for LIBERA and MAESTRI DI STRADA!
With the proceeds of this new card + postcard, it will be possible to support the activities of LIBERA (https://www.libera.it/schede-1326-libera_inglese) and MAESTRI DI STRADA (https://www.maestridistrada.it/)
Giuseppe Salvia by Italo Mattone
Fumetto Forever Card # 33 – Card + Postcard
First Edition
limited and numbered 109 copies
from 1 to 109
SOLD OUT
Second Edition
limited and numbered 141 copies
from 110 to 250
The second edition continues the numbering of the first
Cost € 5.00
+ postage costs (for Italy € 5.00, Europe € 10.00)
How to pay:
- Bank transfer:
Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo
Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia
IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519
BIC:ICRAITRRTS0
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AVAILABLE 2nd EDITION
(1st edt limited & numbered edition 1-109, SOLD OUT)
(2nd edt limited & numbered edition 110-250)
copies available 2nd edition 138/141
the postcards of the solidarity cards are numbered, the number you receive is random. The choice of the specific number is a pre-sale service only and only for the members of Figurine Forever
An unnumbered version was also printed, mainly used for distribution to Salvia Family and people involved in this project.
