Meet the author

Sualzo.

Illustrator · Italy

Sualzo: acclaimed Italian comics illustrator and partner of Silvia Vecchini, behind the gentle near-wordless picture-comic A Difficult Thing; quiet, emotionally honest stories for ages 3 to 6.

Sualzo is the pen name of an acclaimed Italian comics illustrator and cartoonist, and the longtime creative partner of writer Silvia Vecchini. In this corpus he illustrates A Difficult Thing: The Importance of Admitting Mistakes, a gentle, near-wordless two-tone comic for very young children about owning up to a mistake and saying sorry, where the pictures carry almost the whole emotional weight of the story. Sualzo's art is warm, characterful and beautifully paced, well suited to spare, wordless storytelling that even the youngest readers can follow. A distinctive contemporary Italian illustrator working in the picture-book and comics registers for ages 3 to 6, particularly on quiet, emotionally honest stories.