News of 2022

Fumetto magazine on Salone - October 2022

Sergio Staino in Bordighera

Humor, life experiences, a passion for politics. The return of "Bobo" to Bordighera is a rare opportunity to listen to a great personality of the twentieth century.On our Youtube [...]

I was there

In these days we are sending by email the "certificates of participation" to the 2022 Salone. We once again thank all the participants for joining our initiative after more than [...]

Thank you all! See you soon

It was an encounter like few do: an astral conjunction that brought together a small group of people gifted with creativity and concreteness! Long hours spent on the computer and [...]

A welcome meeting, Paolo Del Bianco

"The child who always plays" came to visit us at Salone 2022! His colorful cars are on display.

Inauguration of the 2022 Salone

Thanks to all present! In particular to:Marco Scajola - Regional Councilor, Vittorio Ingenito - Mayor of Bordighera, Chiara Cerri, Simona Ferro, Veronica Russo and Enrico Ioculano [...]

Registration closed for the exhibition "The world of the automobile: today and in the future"

On May 31, the deadline for sending us drawings for the review The world of the automobile: today and in the future" expired. The professional humorists participating in the [...]

The Liguria Region grants Patronage to the Exhibition

On the 7th of JUne, the President of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, informs us that the council considered our request for patronage worthy of acceptance! News that is [...]

Humor is a scarecrow, says Jean Cocteau

… As far as I am concerned, there are no minor arts. Under the circumstances Offenbach charms me as much as Mozart.Poetry is expressed as it pleases and it happens that the [...]

We weren't expecting so many adhesions!

It's true. We thought we'd just make an attempt "to see what effect it has" but... This week we sent more than 160 invitation emails to as many cartoonists on the theme "the [...]

Invitation to participate

The idea that guided us in defining the program of this next summer's Salone was to remember the epic of the past but also looking at today, aware that humor is always something [...]

The Book on Salone2

Today, April 19th, it is finally available for booking on the website of the Graphe publisher [...]

How our logo was created

Between us we debated whether or not to update the logo, whether to keep the tradition or whether to choose a new path, a crossroads. But the Salone is its history, what it was [...]

Humorous and illustrated literature

When we began to rearrange the archives of the Salone, we came across many anecdotes and curiosities concerning the literary section. We have therefore decided to dedicate a part [...]

Is the Salone coming back?

More than twenty years have passed since the last edition in 1999, literally a century ago ... So here we are, we're back!We had a pending question that had been pressing us for [...]

The book on the Salone

Paola Biribanti, a young Roman journalist, accidentally discovered the International Humor Fair and its 52 years of life, one of the longest-running annual events in Italy. As a [...]