Original comic drawn by Giuseppe (Beppe) Madaudo and, as far as we know, unpublished (if you know of publication please let us know!) The comic, which measures 12×16 inches, depicts Piperno in a French jail awaiting a judge’s determination on extradition to Italy. The judge finds Italy’s evidence insufficient and denies the request. (Some background on Piperno’s travails is found in a previous post, here).
The comic is particularly notable because the artist behind it, Beppe Madaudo, was himself targeted for prosecution related to a separate comic in a famous (relatively speaking) and related incident (he was not tried or incarcerated). The artist had drawn a piece on the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, which was published in the first issue of the autonomist journal Metropoli (copies of which were seized two days after publication) in the spring of 1979. A brief interview with former Metropoli editor Paolo Virno, published on the DeriveApprodi website (here), is well worth reading for those interested in the incident.
This piece was purchased from LibriSenzaData in Milano (a great shop).
New York Archives of Autonomist Marxism 