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Big Sleeping
Big Sleeping is an Italian noir-humorous comic series created by Daniele Panebarco. History and profile Inspired by Raymond Chandler's novels, the main character of the series is a private detective loosely based on Philip Marlowe. The series featured typical noir and hard-boiled elements mixed with surreal and humorous plots, such as the research of Godot, or the thief of the Christmas Star.Gianni Bono. "Big Sleeping". ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Epierre, 2003. The series debuted in the magazine '' Il Mago'', and was later published in a large number of other publications including ''linus'', ''Orient Express'', ''Comic Art'' and ''L'espresso''. Big Sleeping was also featured in several graphic novels, the first of them being ''Il Falcone Sardese'' (Longanesi, 1977), which featured the killing of Italian Communist Party secretary Enrico Berlinguer and his replacement with a double appointed to kill the American president Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Mago (magazine)
''Il Mago '' was an Italian comics magazine created by Mario Spagnol and published monthly by Mondadori from April 1972 to December 1980. It published 105 issues. History ''Il Mago'' was Mondadori's reply to the successful magazine ''Linus'', published by Rizzoli. The director was Mario Spagnol, also editor of the Oscar Mondadori, which previously had frequently featured comic books. After six months, he was replaced by writers Fruttero and Lucentini, who had previously been the Italian translators of the comic strips '' B.C.'' and ''The Wizard of Id''. Apart the latter, the magazine featured strips such as ''Mafalda'' and '' Blondie'', with a circulation of c. 80,000 copies. In 1975 the magazine, now in crisis, was handed over to Beppi Zancan. The format was reduced from 24×34 to 19,5×27 cm, and number of pages reduced from 96 to 80. Zancan also introduced more adult characters, also open to Italian ones such as Agostino e Franco Origone's '' Nilus'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Panebarco
Daniele Panebarco (born 4 October 1946) is an Italian cartoonist. Born in Ravenna, while he was still being a student at the University of Bologna Panebarco debuted as a cartoonist for the magazine ''Off-Side''. In 1973 he won a national contest for cartoonists organized by the newspaper ''Paese Sera'' and started collaborating with the newspaper. In 1976 Panebarco had his breakout with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series ''Big Sleeping'', which debuted in the magazine '' Il Mago'', and was later published in a large number of other publications. He later created other series, such as ''Piccolo Lenin'', an imaginary account of the Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...'s childhood, and ''Nick Martello'', a satire of Communism. Panebarco is als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, " Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in '' Black Mask,'' a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, ''The Big Sleep'', was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but '' Playback'' have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other ''Black Mask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe () is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler, who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre. The hardboiled crime fiction genre originated in the 1920s, notably in ''Black Mask'' magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Marlowe first appeared under that name in ''The Big Sleep'', published in 1939. Chandler's early short story, short stories, published in pulp magazines such as ''Black Mask (magazine), Black Mask'' and ''Dime Detective'', featured similar characters with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas", starting in 1933. Some of those short stories were later combined and expanded into novels featuring Marlowe, a process Chandler called "cannibalization of fiction, cannibalizing", which is more commonly known in publishing as a fix-up. When the original stories were republished years later in the short-story collection ''The Simple Art of Murder'', Chandler did not change the names of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard-boiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op. Genre pioneers The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by James M. Cain and by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s. Its heyday was in 1930s–50s America. Pulp fiction From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Of Bethlehem
The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" (Magi) are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem. There, they meet King Herod of Judea, and ask him: Herod calls together his scribes and priests who, quoting a verse from the Book of Micah, interpret it as a prophecy that the Jewish Messiah would be born in Bethlehem to the south of Jerusalem. Secretly intending to find and kill the Messiah in order to preserve his own kingship, Herod invites the wise men to return to him on their way home. The star leads them to Jesus' Bethlehem birthplace, where they worship him and give him gifts. The wise men are then given a divine warning not to return to Herod, so they return home by a different route. Many Christians believe the star was a miraculous sign. Some theologians claimed that the star fulfilled a prophecy, known as the Star Prophecy. Astronomers have made several attempts to link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linus (magazine)
''linus'' is an Italian comics magazine published in Italy since 1965. It is the first Italian magazine exclusively focused on comics. During a period of crisis, the magazine was not published in May and June 2013, but returned in July, published by Baldini & Castoldi. History and profile The first number of ''linus'' was published in April 1965 by Milano Libri, a subsidiary of Rizzoli, and was later published by Baldini & Castoldi in monthly issues until April 2013. Its founder was Giovanni Gandini. The magazine's name was always written in lowercase letters. It had a sister magazine, ''Alter'', which was also a comics magazine. Both magazines had a leftist cultural stance and their editorials supported for the Italian Communist Party. The first director of ''linus'' was Giovanni Gandini. The magazine published foreign comic strips like ''Peanuts'', '' ''Li'l Abner'', ''Bristow, ''Dick Tracy'', and others. ''linus'' was also the place where Italian comics found space for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orient Express (magazine)
''Orient Express'' was a monthly comic magazine published in Italy from 1982 to 1985. History and profile ''Orient Express'' was founded in 1982 by Luigi Bernardi and intended to offer to its adult audience only high quality stories by Italian cartoonists. The first issue appeared in June 1982. The magazine was published monthly and featured unreleased stories of both well-known and unpublished characters. The magazine had its headquarters in Bologna until 1984 when it moved to Milan. Series published by the magazine include '' Lo Sconosciuto'' and ''I Briganti'' by Magnus, '' Ken Parker'' by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo, ''Martin Mystère'' by Alfredo Castelli and Giancarlo Alessandrini, ''Max Fridman'' by Vittorio Giardino, ''Johnny Focus'' by Attilio Micheluzzi, ''Stella Noris'' by Lorena Canossa and Roberto Baldazzini, '' Big Sleeping'' by Daniele Panebarco. A collection of the magazine's best stories, ''Orient Express Collezione'', was published between June 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'espresso
''L'Espresso'' () is an Italian weekly news magazine. It is one of the two most prominent Italian weeklies; the other is ''Panorama''. Since 2022 it has been published by BFC Media. History and profile One of Italy's foremost newsmagazines, ''l'Espresso'' was founded as a weekly magazine in Rome, in October 1955, by the N.E.R. (''Nuove Edizioni Romane'') publishing house of Carlo Caracciolo and the progressive industrialist Adriano Olivetti, manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters. Its chief editors were Arrigo Benedetti and Eugenio Scalfari.Carlo Caracciolo: newspaper publisher who set up La Repubblica ''The Times'', 8 January 2009 ''l'Espresso'' was characterized from the beginning by aggressive |
Longanesi
Longanesi, also known as Longanesi & C., is a publishing house based in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1946 by Leo Longanesi and industrialist Giovanni Monti.Nanni Delbecchi (13 May 2016). "Longanesi fa settanta. Il 'Dottor Naso' aveva fiuto". ''Il Fatto Quotidiano''. p. 20. It initially got a large success thanks to some editorial series such as '' La buona società'' and ''La gaia scienza''. After a period of crisis, Longanesi was relaunched by Mario Spagnol (1930–1999) through the acquisition of some prestigious publishing houses such as ''Guanda'', ''Salani'' and ''Corbaccio'' and through some successful ventures in the field of paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, ...s. References External links * Book publishing companies of Italy Publishing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Amadeo Bordiga, Antonio Gramsci, and Nicola Bombacci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played a major role in the Italian resistance movement. It changed its name in 1943 to PCI and became the second largest political party of Italy after World War II, attracting the support of about a third of the vote share during the 1970s. At the time, it was the largest communist party in the West, with peak support reaching 2.3 million members, in 1947, and peak share being 34.4% of the vote (12.6 million votes) in the 1976 general election. The PCI transitioned from doctrinaire Marxism–Leninism to democratic socialism by the 1970s or the 1980s and adhered to the Eurocommunist trend. In 1991, it was dissolved and re-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
