«Qualcosa di fumettistico e definitivo»: Enrico Brizzi e i fumetti. Il caso Bastogne

The essay intends to describe how the Bolognese narrator Enrico Brizzi approached the imagery of Italian underground comics that underlies the first phase of his work, starting from the case of his novel Bastogne (1996). The first part of the article theorises and illustrates the methods Brizzi chose to narratively characterise the story, relating it to the associated comic book imagery. In the second part, we examine the comic strip adaptation of the novel published in 2006, in which the imagery of Pazienza, Tamburini and Liberatore, which had already inspired the novel, is honored by the cartoonist Maurizio Manfredi through various graphic techniques evocative of that period.