Created by Michele Nitri in 2015, it stands out for the dark fantasy and macabre style of its published titles and for the funding method, aimed at the resale of the original tables(??
[1][2] Hollow Press debuts in the publishing scene in April 2014, when the founder Michele Nitri produces the first volume of U.D.W.F.G., a collection of five serialized stories of five different artists.
At the beginning of February 2015 Hollow Press was officially born, that then published a special dedicated to Shintaro Kago (Industrial Revolution and World War ) and a "best of" of Tetsunori Tawaraya (Tetsupendium Tawarapedia).
In this way, also favored by social networks and from publishing mainly in English, the company tapped a little but important international market (without having to depend from intermediaries) creating a compact and clear identity.
Arallū introduces us so:Give up any illusions and consciously be entropic containers.I'm not recounting to answer your questions but to let you exist in an anomalous aesthetic the contents that are yours since forever.Their space-time, instead, does not belong to you...Strongly videogame culture influenced, it develops in first person and in a similar way as roleplaying games;[11] the protagonist/reader (as the "Obsidian Golem") have to face claustrophobic undergrounds, and to explore the obscure and alienating universe, solving small puzzles, while escorted by N'Tar, a monster forced to accompany and show him the way by a mysterious entity, that works as sole narrator.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it's about the evolution of a civilization of small anthropomorphic creatures that develop their own technology thanks to the finds of human bodies, that are used as building materials for war machinery and tools.
The story is a silent visual journey into a world composed of Largemouths (huge titans) that walk and struggle with each other regardless, and mythical creatures, that huddle and come together, creating the first forms of expression, while human civilization is still in its infancy.