Giulia Sagramola (Fabriano, Italy, 1985) studied graphic design and visual communication at ISIA in Urbino and illustration at Escola Massana in Barcelona. She’s a cartoonist and a freelance illustrator, she also creates handmade objects like her monster pillows, purses, tote gabs, badges and t-shirts with her characters. She founded the indipendent zine label Teiera (Teapot), curated with Cristina Spanò and Sarah Mazzetti, in which she develops tiny handmade books or collective publishings. She collaborates with The New Yorker, Einaudi, Topipittori, Coconino Press, Mondadori, Giunti, Tunué and more. Her blog was published in a comic book called Milk and Mint (2008). For Topipittori she published “Bacio a cinque” (2011), a graphic novel on her childhood. She likes traveling, watching tv series, listening to the Best Coast, drinking tea, stalking dachshund dogs. She lives in Bologna (Italy) where she constantly eats gelato.
Clients & Publishers
Topipittori / Einaudi Ragazzi / Mondadori / The New Yorker / Edizioni EL / Giunti / Il Battello a Vapore / Grup 62 / Rizzoli RCS / Zanichelli / Coconino Press / Tunué / Giannino Stoppani Edizioni / Edizioni Lapis / Proglo Editore / Chialab / Helbling Languages.
Exhibitions
2012 “Muro come un pesce”, collective of 40 illustrators, city center, Termoli.
2012 “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, collective of illustrators curated by Tuesday Bassen and Pete Gamlen, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
2012 “Giulia Sagramola, una personale” personal exhibition, Biancovolta, Viterbo.
2012 “Camuffati”, with Sarah Mazzetti, Elastico, Bologna.
2012 “Mostra degli illustratori”, selected illustrators of Bologna Children’s Bookfair, Bologna.
2012 “Fumetti Bambini”, with Tuono Pettinato, Libreria Trame, Bologna.
2012 “Giulia Sagramola, una personale” personal exhibition, Zuni Art, Ferrara.
2012 “Erbario Animalo”, curated by Zizì Collective, Il Posto, Bologna. 2011 “Bacio a cinque”, comic book exhibition, Libreria per Ragazzi Giannino Stoppani, Bologna. 2011 “Notre Fil Rouge”, italian illustrators collective curated by Francesca Capellini, Paris.
2011 “Weikap!”, illustrators collective curated by Giulia Sagramola and Caterina Giuliani, Weikap! Festival, Tolentino (MC).
2011 “Foto di Gruppo”, collective exhibition from the book curated by Giulia Sagramola and Cristina Spanò (Teiera), Camera a Sud, Bologna. 2010 “Superheroes on the sofa”, curated by Zizì Collective, Bologna.
2010 “Ho detto frittata ha capito Tortilla”, curated by Zizì Collective, gallery Tiendaderecha, Barcelona (Spain). 2009 “Zizì illustrators collective”, curated by Zizì Collective, Médiathèque Hélène Berr/Picpus, Paris (France).
2009 “Tafuzzy Days collective exhibition”, indipendent music festival Tafuzzy Days, Rimini. 2009 “Fumetti Partigiani”, comics dedicated to Partisan Resistance, curated by Emiliano Rabuiti, Casa della Memoria e della Storia, Roma. 2009 “Zizì illustrators collective”, curated by Zizì Collective, Bologna. 2008 “Zizì illustrators collective”, curated by Zizì Collective, Jesi (AN). 2008 “Proiezioni su carta”, collective of 29 illustrators curated by Giulia Sagramola, Fabriano (AN).
Awards
2012 Selected illustrations for the Mostra degli Illustratori of Bologna Children’s Bookfair.
2008 Price Carlo Boscarato for the Best Short Story with the comic “L’acqua ricorda”, written by Luca Vanzella and published on “Mono n°3”, Tunuè.
Bibliography
Comic Books
”Bacio a cinque”, Topipittori (2011)
”Milk and Mint”, ProgloEdizioni (2008)
Fanzines ”Cosas Raras”, Teiera (2010) ”Che cavolo dici?”, Teiera (2010) ”Riunione di famiglia”, Self Comics (2007) ”Decay, Delay Attach!” n. 1, 2, 3, 4, Self Comics (2005/2008)
Editorial Illustrations ”Bàsquet, scrabble i tu”, by Sílvia Soler e Ferran Muñoz, Estrella Polar (2012)
“Non chiamatela Crudelia Demon”, by Anna Lavatelli, Il Battello a Vapore. Serie Rossa (2012)
“Anche i dinosauri facevano la cacca!”, by Dino Ticli, Edizioni Lapis (2011) ”Margherite per il marchese”, by Giulia Zucchini, Giannino Stoppani Edizioni (2011) ”Melanzane e cioccolato”, by Enza Emira Festa, Mondadori – I Sassolini (2010)
Short Stories in AA VV Anthologies ”Ten Steps Until Nothing”, Teiera (2011) ”Foto di Gruppo”, Teiera (2010) ”Global Warming, Immagini che producono azioni”, NdA Press (2010) ”Mono n.8″ Tunué (2010) ”Rojo Putón”, Les Golfes (2010) ”Guida illustrata al frastuono più atroce vol. 2″, Lamette (2010) ”Colibrì #1″, Apa Apa Comics (2010) ”Fumetti Partigiani”, Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza (2009) ”Sherwood Comix”, Nicola Pesce Editore (2009) ”Black n.9″, Coconino Press (2008) ”La terza Antologia”, Self Comics (2008) ”Antologia Vol.2″, Self Comics (2007) ”Mono n.3″, Tunué (2007) ”Antologia Selfcomics 2005″, Self Comics (2005)
Contact
www.giuliasagramola.it
