The life of Blessed Don Pino Puglisi, a priest killed on 15 September 1993 by the mafia in Palermo, in the Brancaccio district where he worked, and whose death marks the thirtieth anniversary, tells a great story, that of a man capable of listening and with dialogue not only to oppose the criminal power of Cosa Nostra but to worry, worry and frighten the mafia leaders.

Don Pino, renamed by the people of Palermo 3P – Father Pino Puglisi – listened with his ears and his heart to the needs of the poor people, tried to combat school dropout by establishing after-school and evening courses, took away laborers from the mafia by offering new horizons to the children of the neighborhood, new alternative ways to delinquency and to the culture written by Cosa Nostra, interwoven with silence, intimidation, violence and illegality.

The Gospel and the prayer of the Our Father were the coordinates on which the whole life and social work of Don Pino moved, a work that led on 16 July 1991 to the birth, by will of the Blessed, of the Reception Center Our Father, the living and beating heart of Don Pino’s modus vivendi in Brancaccio, a place of social recovery thanks to which wonderful realities were born: day centers for the elderly, anti-violence centers for women, holiday homes for school camps for teenagers, youth social centers and social reintegration projects dedicated to prisoners (http://centropadrenostro.it/).

During the papacy of Benedict XVI, on 25 May 2013 Don Pino was proclaimed Blessed. He is the first mafia martyr killed in odium fidei.

His work, carried out by those who are now part of the Padre Nostro Center, continues thirty years later with wonderful projects to support and learn about. Take a look at the Center’s website and you will be amazed.

The solidarity Fumetto Card #40, designed by Riccardo Pagani and freely taken from the graphic novel “Don Puglisi” (Renoir Comics, 2021), designed by the same and written by Marco Sonseri, wants to remember one of the most significant moments of the proposals made by the Blessed Puglisi: our life is a road. Where do we want to go? What is our goal? An existential question that we are all required to answer.

Viva Don Pino Puglisi. Viva 3P.

The solidarity card is created in collaboration with the Padre Nostro Reception Center of Brancaccio, the first edition printed in 1993 numbered copies is distributed in Palermo on the days of the initiatives surrounding the anniversary. A second edition has already been printed which continues the numbering of the first.

DON PINO FOREVER!
With this solidarity card it will be possible to support the “Adotta Con La Figurina” project and the associations involved in the fight against the mafias

Don Pino Puglisi by Riccardo Pagani
Fumetto Card #40 – Card + Postcard

First Edition numbered 1993 copies
from 1 to 1993
SOLD OUT

Second Edition numbered 207 copies
from 1994 to 2200

The second edition continues the numbering of the first

Free offer starting from 5,00€
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
3×2 con with three different Fumetto Card
one is gift

How to contribute:

• 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 numbered 1-1993, SOLD OUT)
(2nd edt numbered 1993-2200, copies available 159/207)

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 people involved in this project.

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 this solidarity card + postcard, it will be possible to support the Adotta Con La Figurina project and 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 Card #33 – Card + Postcard

First Edition numbered 109 copies
from 1 to 109
SOLD OUT

Second Edition numbered 141 copies
from 110 to 250

The second edition continues the numbering of the first

Free offer starting from 5,00€
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
3×2 con with three different Fumetto Card
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• Our Ebay shop: https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE 2nd EDITION
(1st edt numbered 1-109, SOLD OUT)
(2nd edt numbered 110-250, copies available 135/141)

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.

LIBERA forever! We are facing an important solidarity card, a first for many reasons. The first with the new graphics of our Comics Cards. The choice is due to the chance to distance ourselves, when necessary, from the sporting reference. This solidarity card is also the first of a, we hope, long series dedicated to the fight against the mafia. The Comic Card # 27 solidarity card is in memory of Paolo Borsellino.

Judge Borsellino is drawn in a moment of relaxation, with his bicycle, which we wanted to design sports so as to maintain a reference, even if light, to our previous Comic Cards. These men and women who for a lifetime have fought the Mafia logic, they were or are people like us, with loves, passions, thoughts that are often part of our life.

The other important novelty is the close synergy, even more than before, of the figurine with the graphic novel to which it is freely linked. It is an even stronger tribute to the world of comics, it is a way for us to support the Ninth Art and its authors and artists in our own small way.

The drawing is made by Gianluca Doretto, author of “Paolo Borsellino, a story to tell” (Renoir Comics, 2021). The comic board on the postcard, placed under the sticker, is taken from the graphic novel, we have chosen a page full of meaning. The Sicilian writer of the graphic novel Marco Sonseri, a friend of Figurine Forever and now also with the role of our fundamental collaborator, with him was born the idea of ​​this sub-series of solidarity stickers against the mafia.

The Comic Cards linked to fight against mafia have an extremely symbolic number, 109, like the law of 1996 for the public and social reuse of assets confiscated from the mafia.

In the case of this solidarity card, Libera is an important reality in our country, it collects associations, names and numbers against the mafias. His work is often hidden but important, we certainly do not think with our stickers that we can make a difference, but if they can contribute to the support, including media, of their work, the result will be achieved.

Paolo Borsellino died in the mafia massacre in via D’Amelio in Palermo on 19 July 1992, with him the men and women of the escort, whom we wanted to remember on the back of the postcard. Many will have noticed that even in the figurine there is the tree that has become a perpetual symbol of remembrance, for all those who, who have never stopped, have the opportunity to go this way in order not to forget.

FIGURINE FOREVER for LIBERA!
With this solidarity card + postcard, it will be possible to support the Adotta Con La Figurina project and the activities of LIBERA (https://www.libera.it/schede-1326-libera_inglese)

Paolo Borsellino by Gianluca Doretto
FumettoCard # 27 – Card + Postcard
1st edition 109 copies numbered

Free offer starting from 5,00€
+ shipping (for Europe 8,00€)
3×2 con with three different Fumetto Card
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st edition numbered 1-109, copies available 77/109)

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 people involved in this project.

Michele forever! In January 2022, a friend of Figurine Forever left us, but above all a boy with a heart of gold, engaged in the front line with the splendid reality of Porta Pazienza, a pizzeria that is much more than a pizzeria, as it is. they define themselves as “we are a social project” (https://portapazienza.bo.it/). In a mix of tears and satisfaction, we are thrilled to announce the solidarity Comic Card # 24, in memory of Michele Ammendola.

Michele, from Bologna by adoption, was a true Neapolitan, a great fan of the Azzurri team. This is why we thought that one way to remember him was to imagine him as the footballer of his beloved Napoli and even with Porta Pazienza as the main sponsor of the team! The edition is also a tribute to his sporting passion, 126 copies, thinking about the year of the club’s birth, 1926.

All this was made possible by the splendid graphic work of the young cartoonist Gloria Goderecci, from Abruzzo but also from Bologna by adoption, author of the recent graphic novel “Death is only the beginning” (Tunuè editions). Dear Michele, even your farewell is only the beginning for us, your commitment and all that of the children of Porta Pazienza, together with other related associations, has never stopped, it has gone further and will continue to do so.

FOR PORTA PAZIENZA!
With this solidarity card + postcard, it will be possible to support the Adotta Con La Figurina project and Porta Pazienza (https://www.portapazienza.bo.it/), a splendid reality in Bologna, defining it as a pizzeria would be very limiting, the goal is to create a critical and conscious consumption model, bringing unique recipes with products from assets confiscated from the mafias and from social farming cooperatives.

Michele Ammendola by Gloria Goderecci
Fumetto Card # 24 – Card + Postcard
1st edition 126 copies numbered

Free offer starting from 5,00€
+ shipping (for Europe 8,00€)
3×2 con with three different Fumetto Card
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st edt numbered 1-126, copies available 9/126)

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 people involved in this project.