Davide Toffolo will be on Wednesday, May 27 at the Rizzoli Bookstore in New York for a meeting that holds together some of the most recognizable parts of his work: comics, music, Pasolini and Pordenone. The appointment, scheduled from 18:30 to 20, is entitled Pasolini, Pordenone, and the Spectacle of Life & Death and is organized in collaboration with Ragusa Foundation, Salotto and Rizzoli Bookstore. Toffolo, author of graphic novels and frontman of the Three Allegri Dead Boys, will dialogue with Ricky Russo, music journalist and animator of Spaghetti Punk. The meeting will be in Italian, with consecutive English translation of Mara Gerety, and anticipates the concert of the band scheduled the next day, 28 May, at the Arlene’s Grocery, on the Lower East Side.
Toffolo was born in Pordenone in 1965. He is one of the most important cartoonists in Italy, author of books such as Pasolini, published by Coconino Press in 2005, The White King, Fregoli and Graphic novel is back. His last work is Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Permanent Revolution, released for Feltrinelli in 2026. But he is also the singer and guitarist of the Three Allegri Ragazzi Morti, a group born in 1994 and became one of the most important bands of the Italian independent scene.
Pordenone, in this story, is not only a biographical data. It is the city from which in the late seventies and in the early eighties passed the Great Complotto, one of the most strange and vital movements of Italian punk, then enlarged to the new wave, to the electronics do-da-te and to the experimentation. It is in that climate that Toffolo started working on his idea of image, story and scene. The Three Allegri Dead Boys have carried this method for thirty years, crossing rock, dub, cumbia, hip-hop and electronics, founding in 2000 also La Tempesta Dischi, which became one of the most important labels of the Italian individual. Now the band, after ten years from the concert at Bowery Electric – now closed and reopened under a new name – returns to New York, also to explain how to build an image capable of surviving in time, the scene that produced it and even the faces of those who invented it.
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