Frenchman Angelo Di Marco Believes in Moral Absolutes

INTERVIEW BY MATHIEU BERENHOLC, TRANSLATED BY PAULINE EIFERMAN

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Angelo di Marco takes random human-interest stories and turns them into horrorific masterpieces of draftsmanship. French people are crazy about his work. His drawings have been in pretty much every newspaper over there during the past five decades, as well as on billboards and in countless magazines. He’s been lovingly illustrating murders, muggings, shootings, and other good stuff since his late teens. The secret? “It’s all about capturing the instant before the fatal blow,” he says. “No blood, just sheer intense fear and horror.”
Vice: How old were you when you started working as an artist?

Angelo di Marco: La Vie Parisienne Radar Radar And how did it go?
Inouïe Were the stories always true?
Do you focus more on the victims?
Did they ever find the killer?
You draw a lot of horrible scenes, but they never have blood in them. There’s fear, but no gore…
Do your drawings help you understand humanity?
So what happens in the mind of a killer?
Have any of the stories that you’ve illustrated haunted you?
How?
Maybe that’s why there’s such a distance in your drawings…
Yeah, you are. But I think we can both agree that murder is bad. Thanks!

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