SOLAR! – An Emergy comic adventure

SOLAR! – An Emergy comic adventure

SOLAR! is a fun and innovative way to introduce emergy to a large audience, including kids, using the comic technique.

The sun – and one of his offspring, called Ray, a forward-looking professor, Mudo Draw, and its main invention, the Macroscope, will be helped by four young students in fighting against dark enemies who threaten the entire world.

Thanks to the intelligence and artistic ability of an amazing comic author, Lorenzo Palloni, who was awarded in 2019 the Gran Guinigi as the best screenwriter in Italy during the Lucca Comics Festival, the ideation of Simone Bastianoni and Federico M. Pulselli, the technical supervision and editing of Matteo Maccanti (members of the Ecodynamics Group at the University of Siena and the ISAER), and the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation, a thrilling story was created, in which the importance of the work of nature and the scientific foundations of emergy emerge at the same time.


Download SOLAR! available in English or Italian versions!

And now, three moments of SOLAR!

The first sketch of Prof. Mudo Draw
September 23rd, 2019. The presentation of the comics book at the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation. From the left, the Rector of the University of Siena, Prof. Francesco Frati,  then Simone, Lorenzo and Federico, together with the moderator Andrea Plazzi, Italian writer and editor (second from the right).
September 16th, 2019. The former Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, Prof. Lorenzo Fioramonti, PhD of the University of Siena, proudly showing SOLAR! in his hands.

Comments ( 3 )

  • Ana Fonseca

    Congratulations! and thank you for this work!

  • Daniel Campbell

    Congratulations to Simone, Federico and Matteo along with the whole University of Siena Comic team in producing this fun introduction to the important ideas underlying our Society.

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