Porcellino [SEP] material used
Porcellino
Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and removed to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of
in 2007. The 2009 collection, "Map of My Heart", published by Drawn and Quarterly, collected material from "King-Cat" in celebration of the title's twentieth anniversary.
Translations of "King-Cat Comics" have been published in French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, and Korean.
External links.
- Pocellino page at lambiek.net
- 2006 Podcast interview with the creator of King-Cat Comics, John Porcellino