Publisher's Synopsis
Karmacho is a graphic novel conceived at Plum Village monastery in 2011 and arranged and colored a decade later. The author describes the novel as a "crazy story which came to life by itself during a crazy winter. It belongs to my 'spiritually incorrect' series."
Phap Ban is the monastic name of Claudio Panarese. Born in Genoa in 1960, he began publishing comics in high school and after university he dedicated himself completely to painting and graphic storytelling as a cartoonist and scriptwriter for Disney. In 1989 he discovered and fell in love with the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. For ten years he lived initially as a layman and then as a monk at Plum Village, a monastery in the South of France founded by the Zen master. He was ordained in 2007.
Phap Ban divides his time and practice between Salento and the monastery, where he regularly returns for a few months a year. He is the author of the graphic novel Plum Village Love Story (Lindau, 2016).
La casa cafausica is an artist-run editorial space founded in Italy by Luigi Negro and Giancarlo Norese, developed as part of the activities of the Fondazione Lac o Le Mon.
