Graphic Novel: Voices of Women from Infinite Universes

With this graphic novel, we start a Tour that kicks off in the year of the Olympics and is dedicated to the combination of Sport and Health, but not only because, as the protagonist always says: ‘Sport is above all a platform for social justice.’ She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on 22 November 1943.... View Article

This American film heroine’s graphic novel is about a woman who embraces a career as a filmmaker, which has always been dominated by men, thanks to her extraordinary talent that saw her start out as a painter and bring her to New York from San Francisco after winning a prestigious graduate program. A woman far... View Article

Seven years after the unexpected death of the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, we cannot but remember how her example influenced international architecture. It is no coincidence that she is considered the main inspirer of contemporary design alongside a generation of male architects with whom she contributed to a redefinition of design forms. Always original and... View Article

Tamara de Lempicka was a very controversial artist, she was a bisexual woman who was twice in her life a victim of, then capable of rebirth from persecution first by the Bolsheviks and then by the Nazis, the object of stereotypes even by those who accused her of snobbery when she had survived poverty and... View Article

This graphic novel is dedicated to the extraordinary life of Katherine Coleman Johnson, who in the more than one hundred years of her life has traversed a period of history between the end of the First World War to the present day with a sure hand and great tenacity. This excellent mathematics brings to a... View Article

The conception of the graphic novel on the biographical story of Gerty Cori was inspired by the enhancement of the scientific aspects of her genius without neglecting the scientist’s profound understanding and commonality of purpose with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori, demonstrating the ‘creative’ affectivity that a couple can achieve by basing their union on... View Article

Here we have a new emblematic figure in our journey through the “Voices of Women from Infinite Universes”. Eva Mameli Calvino represents the need for women to seize in their studies and scientific careers the opportunity to improve their own destiny and that of others, but also the commitment to herself to never give up... View Article

In this fifth graphic novel we are transported by the astute pen of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, anthropologist, ethnologist and tireless explorer, into a late nineteenth-century Victorian setting and learn about places on the African continent largely unknown to Europeans at the time. Mary was orphaned at the age of thirty and thus began her first... View Article

Gertrude is the fourth story in the series Voices of women from infinite universes. Like the previous ones, it addresses issues of diversity and inclusion through stories of extraordinary women active “in the field”, bearers of values that have helped bring out the heritage of humanity and still today transmit fundamental and timeless teachings. It... View Article

This is the wonderful story of Alexandra David-Néel. The third graphic novel focuses on the aspect of recovery, rebirth and resilience of female life. We are looking at that period between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – the Victorian era in Great Britain – in which, from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffrage movement, women... View Article