Review: Tropical Zombie, a comic book by Nicola Stradiotto

Nicola Stradiotto opens the door of the subconscious with “Tropical Zombie”

Imagine to open a door, not any old door, but the one of your mind. What would you find in it? Nicola Stradiotto, with his “quite splatter and very surrealistic” comic strip called “Tropical Zombie”, published thanks to Bolopaper and Tipografia Mistero, is actually showing us this.

The silver cover holds 36 pages made up of different rooms where strange, oneiric -and ironic-, irrational and unconnected (or perhaps they are?) things happen. The author combines the surrealism of Magritte’s suspended objects with Dalì’s perspective and faceless figures, Cornellà’s violence, a pinch of madness typical of Tim Burton and just some blood falls here and there in Kubrick style. Everything drawn with a very personal line, which is exclusively red and stylized too.

Nicola Stradiotto leads us to the meanderings of our subconscious, that is not a Petrarchan “locus amoenus”: sometimes it reveals itself to be a unpleasant place where you may stumble into dead bodies, women stuck into the floor with their feet dangling downstairs, enormous locks, pentagons, giant ears and upside-down rooms.

We strongly recommend this comic to everyone who loves Freudian contents or who is up to splatter irony!

You can buy it directly from the author, here are listed his social contacts:

Mail: nicolastradiotto@gmail.com
Facebook: Nicola Stradiotto
Instagram @nicolastradiotto