RAPACE : felt pen on paper 10 x 10 cm
MARTIN FISHERMAN : marker and ink on squared paper 18 x 21 cm
WOLF DOG PUPPY WITH TARTARUGA: marker on squared paper 29 x 21 cm

Andrea loved animals (although she did not like taking care of them, as she admitted in a short autobiography) and loved to observe them. Leafing through the book, we find the plastic tension of cats at rest and before action, the attention to detail of small insects, ducks and more humanised in homage to her beloved Barks. Drawings made between 1984 and 1987 for Legambiente's Green Agenda, then exhibited at the Lucca Comics Fair and finally collected in a volume by Editori del Grifo in 1992. Here these plates are documented and published.
In the volume, the animals are grouped by genre; the earliest works are dedicated to cats, for which Pazienza seems to have had a predilection.
With just a few strokes, animals of all kinds appear on the page, all very human in their characterisation and perfect in their execution, whether drawn with two lines of a large felt-tipped pen or accompanied by the meticulous hatching to which the author was accustomed in other cases.
The silhouette and the clear line, the play of shadows and light, describe these animals, lying limply on the branches of gnarled trees or frozen in the shot that impassively marks the fate of the poor prey.

These are animals captured in the moment of action or in their natural habitat, but there are also many pages that focus on faces and expressions, tending to anthropomorphise cats and chimpanzees, letting human feelings shine through without distorting their features (except for the deliberately humanised images of gorillas in suits or ducks, indebted to Carl Barks).