Ostinato Destino: 1992-

The story centers on Carolina Rambaldi, a wealthy woman disappointed by her three children: Marcello, a lazy womanizer; Lucrezia, a domineering TV producer; and Cesare, a malicious sociologist. In her will, Carolina leaves her vast inheritance to whichever child can get married and produce a child within a year and a day. This leads to a series of dark and desperate schemes:

The art style was a gritty chiaroscuro, reminiscent of Bill Sienkiewicz crossed with Italian neorealist cinema. Issue #2 ended with the wanderer staring at a calendar pinned to a corkboard: the page reads — no end date. Readers who wrote to the publisher asking for Issue #3 received a postcard reading: "Il destino non ha capitoli. Solo ritornelli." ("Fate has no chapters. Only refrains.") Ostinato Destino 1992-

To understand "Ostinato Destino," one must first understand the (from Italian: ostinato , "stubborn, obstinate"). In music, an ostinato is a short pattern of notes that repeats persistently throughout a composition. Think of Ravel’s Boléro , the bassline of Bach’s Ciaccona, or the driving synth loop of Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach . The ostinato creates hypnotic tension: it is a beautiful prison. The story centers on Carolina Rambaldi, a wealthy