“I’m Giulia but I almost always prefer ZUZU. I am a 24 year old cartoonist, illustrator and incurable playful person. I am a capricorn with gemini rising, so i want everyone to take me seriously except me. I hardly believe in anything, only in bonds and intuitions. Comics, like any other art form, serve to tell stories. And for me, telling stories means taking a few steps back from yourself, looking out. This operation allows me not to feel any shame, no sense of inadequacy even when I reveal confidential parts of myself. For this reason, getting naked has not cost me much effort, because my story, my life is like my notebooks, nobody will see them, but without it I would have nothing to tell. For almost all my life I have fought with a fact: I am a shameless person, who does not understand the sense of decency, of demeanor, of mystery as an end in itself. Since I allowed myself to admit this truth a knot of pain and frustration has melted away, and I’m happier.”