The Comics Journal has an interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus. “In 2023, a comics biography of Charles Schulz was published by Top Shelf, written and drawn by two Italian comic book artists: writer Francesco Matteuzzi and artist Luca Debus. The book was published directly in the U.S., before reaching Italian bookshelves, which are regularly stocked with comics biographies. Titled Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz, the book aesthetically looks exactly like a comic strip collection, while the story matches the layout and the pace of classic strips, but at the full-length storytelling pace of a graphic novel.

Funny Things has attracted considerable attention and many positive reviews by the American press, and when it was published in Italy (by Becco Giallo Editore, which in over 20 years has made a reputation for itself publishing comics biographies) at the end of 2023, it was welcomed by many critics and readers as one of the most interesting graphic novels of that year.”

Read more here.