Vincent Van Gogh: Sadness Will Last Forever

by Francesco Barilli, Sakka (Illustrator)

Overview

A beautiful and stark depiction of Vincent Van Gogh's struggle with depression and the art it produced, told through an emotional dialogue between Vincent and his own madness. For fans of art history and historical fiction.

A gorgeously rendered, emotional exploration of the life and death of one of the most famously tormented painters in human history. Through an emotional dialogue between Vincent and his own madness, the artist revisits the most significant loves and losses of his short life. From his tender and tumultuous relationship with his brother Theo, to the famous quarrel with Gauguin that resulted in the self-mutilation of his ear, to the extreme act of self-harm that led to his death, Vincent Van Gogh channeled an extraordinary light as bright today as it was upon his death in 1890. Now in print for the first time in English, Van Gogh: Sadness is Forever casts its own light onto the darkest shadows of the painter's life and inspirations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545823453
Publisher:	Mad Cave Studios
Publication date:	02/24/2026
Series:	BeccoGiallo + Comixology Originals
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 10.12(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Born in 1965, Francesco Barilli has edited for BeccoGiallo Ilaria Alpi, Il prezzo della verità, Dossier Genova G8,, Il delitto Pasolini, Peppino impastato, and un giullare contro la mafia. He contributed to the book Fausto e Iaio. Trent’anni dopo and wrote La piuma e la montagna with Sergio Sinigaglia and vergogna di Stato with Checchino Antonini and Dario Rossi Scuola Diaz. He has written some short comic stories, found in the weekly paper La Lettura del Corriere della Sera, on Linus and Wired. Along with Manuel de Carli, he is the author of Carlo Giuliani, il ribelle di Genova and Il delitto Matteotti. Along with Matteo Fenoglio, he is the author of Piazza Fontana and Piazza della Loggia. He also wrote with Fenoglio a brief essay on the use of graphic novels to tell the story about the massacres in Milan and Brescia, published in Piazza Fontana 43 anni dopo. Along with Sakka, he is the author of Goodbye Marilyn, from which a short animated film of the same name was made, directed by Maria di Razza, and presented as a special event at the XV edition of the “Giornate degli Autori” during the 75° edition of the Film Festival of Venice.

Roberta Sacchi, a.k.a. Sakka, was born in Cremona. As a comic book artist, she started making herself a name in 2011, at Futuro Anteriore collective, during Napoli Comicon. Afterwards, she published several graphic novels as a solo author with Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza: Il Sogno del Minotauro, Elain, Il Libro Nuovo – come la Dama e la Tigre risalirono l’Ignoto and the artbook Ninfe. Since 2016, she has begun to collaborate with other publishers: Goodbye Marilyn (BeccoGiallo), Stradivari – Genius Loci (Kleiner Flug) and I Maestri del Mistero – Il Giro di Vite (Edizioni Star-Comics). She has also participated in collective editions such as Bandierine – La storia della Resistenza a fumetti (Barta Edizioni), Tales from Baule (Licaoni) and Dal Risorgimento alla Resistenza (Lucca Comics). Along with drawing, she also works as a teacher for the comic courses which have distinguished the Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza of Cremona for years. In September 2018, the short animated film Goodbye Marilyn by Maria Di Razza, inspired by the graphic novel of the same name, was shown during the 75° edition of theVenice International Film Festival. It was realized entirely with Sakka’s animated drawings.