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Zigg and the Where's Willie? room: the "This World is a Ball" Gang

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“Imagine a thin and tall guy, with a hat, a suit and a suitcase. Now suppose that, in this suitcase, you’ll find crayons, painting, paper, a tambourine, a guitar… ok: right here this guy will start to tell tales, singing and painting stories.

Zygg by himself: this text came from the blog of Ivan Zigg, a “carioca” illustrator, writer, musician and actor, and defines pretty well the artist that, with crayons, painting, paper – and maybe a tambourine and a guitar – was the responsible for the illustration of the room W – Onde Está Willie? (Where’s Willie?), the temporary expo inaugurated by the Football Museum on may, 31st, Copas de A a Z (World Cups From A to Z).

Winner of the Jabuti Prize (the greatest Brazilian literature prize) on the category Children Book in 2004, Zigg is the author of more than one hundred books – among them O Segredo, O Elefante Caiu and Só Um Minutinho. His piece De A a Zigg (From A to Zigg) is present in book fairs, schools and cultural spaces in Brazil. If you want to know more about this very multimedia artist, go to his website, at http://blogdozigg.blogspot.com/.

Coming to Copas de A a Z, the visitor will discover the place where Willie, the 1966 WC is present (and also, perhaps, Zakumi’s grandpa). Anyway, the place where Zigg was last may, 31st, was the Football Museum, when the expo was opened. From Rio de Janeiro, where he lives, he conceded this interview to The Ball Blog:

THE BALL BLOG - Where’s Willie?

IVAN ZIGG - I worked one week to hide Willie and now you ask me to tell you easily? Go to the expo!

BB - What’s the meaning of cartoon in education, today? And, in a Museum?

ZIGG - Museum is life. You can’t oblige someone to take two buses to see only frames. The visitor gotta live something unforgettable there: emotion, cheers, art. This exploration and language moisture promoted by the “young” museums is rocking people.

BB - Among the 12 World Cup mascots, which one captured you most? Why?

ZIGG - Naranjito, the out-of-shape orange of Spain’12. He’s the ball itself.

BB - Are the characters – and mascots – disposed under any logic, or they appear randomly?

ZIGG - Randomly. But perhaps in five thousand years someone will discover, there, the secret map of Zigg’s pharaoh tomb, huh?

BB - Where’s Willie? is a room where all the World Cup mascots are among many characters, in the bleachers. How would you name them if they were an organized group of fans?

ZIGG - Well, there are animals, people outside the Earth, flags and different colors… what about “This World is a Ball”?

BB - Imagine a player as a mascot – who, and which one, would be?

ZIGG - Robinho, sure! Take a look at him: there’s nothing more cartoonly! What about a Robinho-mice cycling?

BB - Dunga, the original one, was a cartoon character (Disney Snow White’s Dopey). Is Dunga a very… Dunga?

ZIGG - He’s closer to Grumpy than Dopey, huh? Within a month, after the World Cup, we’ll know.

BB - How could be the mascot of Brazil’14?

BB - I guess he would be "Invisible-Fan". So it will be possible to find him in the next Where’s Willie?!

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