I Just Opened a Substack. Yes, I Also Write Books Now.

Some people know me for my illustrations and my slightly unhinged T-shirts.
Fewer people know that, somewhere between one Gundam parody and one occult spaghetti monster, I also wrote a book.

A real book.
(And okay… it’s not exactly flying off the shelves, but hey — it exists. It exists so hard.)

It’s called  CHRONICLES FROM THE FUTURE: 111 Stories to Survive Tomorrow.
A collection of short, sharp, often radioactive tales about the future we’re building one bad idea at a time.

And here’s the thing:
Almost nobody is buying it.

That’s fine — hilarious, even — but also a bit frustrating.
Because these stories didn’t come out of nowhere.

I wrote them after watching the world cheer for things that looked suspiciously like slow-motion suicide wrapped in rainbow flags and marketing slogans. I simply followed that road to its logical, grotesque conclusion… and what came out are 111 vicious little warnings: extreme, filthy, politically incorrect, and occasionally sexually violent.
Stories designed to make you laugh once and feel sick the next second.

I spent months hammering them into shape, editing until my eyes bled, then self-published the book on Amazon (ebook + paperback).
My current earnings?
About one euro per story.
That’s the total.
Art is a scam, folks — but at least it’s my scam.

And yet, I believe a few of these pieces might still wake someone up before the punchline becomes reality. If someday even a single reader writes:
“Holy shit, you called it.”
— then every unpaid hour will instantly feel like the best investment I ever made.

So… why Substack?

Because some of my stories are too controversial to publish anywhere else.
Medium would ban them. Reddit would set me on fire.
Even Instagram would probably call the police.

But Substack?
Substack lets me release the unfiltered versions — the really dangerous ones.

Starting today, I’ll be posting the boldest, strangest, and most uncomfortable chronicles directly there.
Free to read.
Free to hate.
Free to think about later, when the world starts to look eerily familiar.

If you want to follow along…
Subscribe here:

https://animadellafesta.substack.com/

No spam, no obligations. Just stories that bite.

Thanks for reading — and for being curious enough to wander into the messy corner where my illustrations and my writing collide.

— Anima della Festa

(Still drawing T-shirts. Still yelling into the future.)

Ah… I almost forgot… if anyone happens to like the T-shirt with the book cover… I made that too… here it is