About
A work to enhance original works and reach a wider audience
as wide as possible.
Daniele Marotta, cartoonist and illustrator, directs the Siena School of Comics and Writing. Always interested in experimenting with language and channels of cultural dissemination, he founded the Bandagialla Collective in 2018 and today, in 2021, Inkdrop Studio to give life to editorial projects that reach traditional publishing after an experimental path in self-production, in specific markets or in international crowdfunding.
Photo by Eolo Perfido
Why look for alternative editorial solutions?
Every book is a unique experience with specific needs. There are books that are stronger in specific contexts, such as genre fiction, or certain geographical areas, others that speak only their native language, and still others that can easily reach readers all over the world. These characteristics are already present in the way a work is conceived and then produced. The author's intent and sensibility already destine a book to specific markets, and, getting the area of choice for a work wrong can decree its premature demise or, on the contrary, planting a book in the right soil can grow a robust literary case.
Inkdrop Studio was born in the heart of the Siena School of Comics and Writing and aims to curate specific books that can make the most of suitable markets. By vocation we try to study the right editorial environment for authors and artists who pass through school and study. It is no longer necessary for all projects to follow the same path. Mainstream works that deal with topics of general interest can easily see the relationship with a serious publisher crowned, independent and original texts can find the path of self-production and the author can spread it online or at trade fairs creating a base of audience that could make that artistic project solid and attractive for the mainstream market. Projects of strong local interest can be easily distributed and make, in defined communities, the numbers of a national title; finally works with a global scope can find in crowdfunding a first rich editorial baptism. We think of works that can have the right wings to fly far , this is what we like to do.