Hola! Enricoh... or even better Señor Tonto. Born on 20th april. He¹d like to be x-ray sighted, abandon the planet and tear Pordenone down...not necessarily in this order. He loves lots of people, he hates lots of people.

He's deeply into: low-brow art, freaks, sideshow and bizarre circuses, charlatans, The New Yorker¹s drawing team until O65, weird human beings, hypnotism, cartoons (sincerely and almost totally disliking the nippos), advertising art, victorian age, mondo3-D, cook books and odd ones, cheesy science fiction, toys and way much more.

He adores comics, but with a basically snob attitude. His favourite authors are: Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton, George Herriman, Milt Gross, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, Jack Cole, Magnus, Mark Beyer, Antonio Rubino, Matt Groening (Life in Hell of course), Max Andersson, Gary Panter, Segar, Daniel Clowes, etcetera, etcetera...

Since 1996 he has been collaborating with his articles and reviews to a fistful of publications such as Mucchio Selvaggio, Bassa Fedeltà , Fandango, Diablo (monthly Psycho¹s supplement) devoted to delightful apocalyptic culture, and Book Happy, american magazine about the oddest books, edited by writer/scholar Donna Kossy.

He prefaced Horrorgasmo (Mondo Bizzarro Press) a book illustrated, among others, by Stefano Zattera, and the comicbook case Mini Burger released by the slovenian Stripburger mag, to end with Davide Toffolo¹s Fregoli (Edizioni Kappa). He collaborated with biographies and bibliographies to Toffolo¹s book ³Carnera- La Montagna che cammina² (Carnera- the walking Alp).

He¹s a fool in love with the fanzines¹ universe. Since 1999 he has his own weekly column Fanzine!, in ³Il Gazzettino² local newspaper, dealing with italian and international fanzines.

His dirty hands wrote various articles for the following adorable Ozines: Abastor, Il Retronauta, Cheesecake Girl, Cronache dal Sottomondo e Officina No Copyright.

In 2001 his book about Basil Wolverton, the weirdest cartoonist of the 20th century and father od Lena Hyena, the ugliest woman in the world, finally was available.

Nowadays he has a lot of even more bizarre projects. Love him or...

E-mail: abnormo@libero.it . Web log: http://tontos.splinder.com