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Eureka (Italian Magazine)
''Eureka'' was a monthly comic magazine published in Italy from 1967 to 1989. History and profile ''Eureka'' was founded in 1967 by Luciano Secchi, who also served as editorial director for 222 of the first 240 issues. It was the second Italian magazine following '' linus'' entirely devoted to comics, but differently from ''linus'' it avoided any intellectualism and any political stance. The magazine initially focused on English and British productions. The contents included humorous comic strips such as ''Al Capp'' (who also served as mascotte of the magazine), '' Bringing Up Father'', '' Alley Oop'', '' Tumbleweeds'', '' Miss Peach'', '' The Perishers'', Hugh Morren's ''Tommy Wack'', and he comic strips of Don Martin; crime and adventure series published by the magazine included ''Kerry Drake'', ''Joe Palooka'', '' James Bond'', '' Modesty Blaise'', '' Spirit'', ''Red Barry'', Burne Hogarth's ''Drago''. In the first years Italian production was only represented by ''Maxmagnu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupo Alberto
Lupo Alberto ("Alberto the Wolf") is a famous Italian comic book series created by Guido Silvestri (Silver) in 1974. It details the adventures of Lupo Alberto, a blue wolf. The protagonist of the comic book, Lupo Alberto, takes the shape of the common man who has a goal in life and a certain amount of bad luck. Alberto, a resident of the McKenzie farm, always tries to steal a hen named Martha (who is his girlfriend), but Moses, a sheepdog, is the obstacle to his plans and does everything to stop him. The conflicts between Alberto and Moses were the subject of the first Comic strip, strips of the series. Lupo Alberto made its first appearance in February 1974, with some strips published by Silvestri in ''Corriere dei Ragazzi'', a 1970s magazine owned by ''Corriere della Sera''. After a year, Dardo published the first series dedicated to this character. Since 1985 a series of monthly books has been released, following a short-lived series (composed of 8 issues) launched between 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modesty Blaise
''Modesty Blaise'' is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards, 11 novels and two short-story collections were written. Fictional character biography In 1945, a nameless girl escapes from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She remembers nothing from her short past and wanders through post-World War II Mediterranean, the Middle East, and regions of North Africa, where she learns to survive the hard way. She befriends Lob, another wandering refugee, who is a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest. He gives her an education and a first name: Modesty. Sometime later, Modesty chooses her last name, Blaise, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Magazines Published In Italy
In Italy there are many magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in number in the country. The number of consumer magazines was 975 in 1995 and 782 in 2004. There are also Catholic magazines and newspapers in the country. A total of fifty-eight Catholic magazines was launched between 1867 and 1922. From 1923 to 1943, the period of the Fascist Regime Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ..., only ten new Catholic magazines was started. The period from 1943 to the end of the Second Vatican Council thirty-three new magazines were established. Until 2010 an additional eighty-six Catholic magazines were founded. The magazines had 3,400 million euros revenues in 2009, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Castelli
Alfredo Castelli (born 26 June 1947) is an Italian comic book artist and writer. Biography Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip '' Scheletrino'', a humor series for Italian comic book ''Diabolik'', when he was only 16 years old. In 1966, with Paolo Sala, he created ''Comics Club 104'', the first Italian fanzine dedicated to comics. A year later Castelli started writing scripts for several Italian comic books, including '' Pedrito el Drito'' and ''Piccola Eva'' published by Universo, '' Cucciolo'' and '' Tiramolla'' for Edizioni Alpe, and ''Topolino'' for Mondadori. Castelli then expanded into television, writing several advertisements as well as the series ''Cappuccetto a Pois'' with Maria Perego and the screenplay for the movie '' Il tunnel sotto il mondo''. In 1969 he contributed to the humor magazine ''Tilt''. A year later, together with Pier Carpi, Castelli created ''Horror'' magazine, in which he published his strip '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Novelli
Luca Novelli (born 7 October 1947) is an Italian cartoonist and writer. Born in Milan, Novelli graduated in agronomy and started drawing his first strips in 1967 for some university publications. He made his professional debut in 1971 with the comics series ''Historiettes'', published in the magazine ''Eureka'', and shortly later he created the successful comic strip ''Gli Edenisti'', published in the newspapers ''Gazzetta di Parma'' and ''Il Messaggero'' and in the magazine ''Pardon''. In 1974 he created his best known work, the comic strip ''Il Laureato'', published in the newspapers '' Il Giorno'' and ''Il Messaggero'' and in the magazine ''Men Only''. In 1976 he started collaborating with the German magazine ''Pardon''.Luciano Secchi. "Novelli, Luca". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. p.596. In 1978 Novelli released ''Viaggio al centro della cellula'', a biology comic textbook, and following its success he specialized in popular science books for ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Barletta
Sergio Barletta (born 20 November 1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator. Life and career Born in Bologna, Barletta made his debut at very young age for the Saturday insert of the newspaper ''Gazzetta del Popolo'' ''Fuorisacco'', Franco Fossati. "Sergio Barletta". ''Guida al fumetto satirico & politico''. Gammalibri, 1979. and later collaborated with several magazines as an illustrator.Maria Grazia Perini. "Barletta, Sergio". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. p.170. In 1968 he created for the magazine ''Rinascita'' the comic strip ''Mr. Manager'', but after the refusal of the magazine to publish it as too politicized, the strip landed on the magazines ' and ''Eureka'', to which Barletta also contributed with illustrations and vignettes. Later he collaborated as a satirical cartoonist with Italian and European magazines. For his style has been compared to Jules Feiffer. Since 1960 Barletta has also been art director Art director is the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Piffarerio
Paolo Piffarerio (August 27, 1924 – June 30, 2015) was an Italian comics artist and animator. Biography Born in Recanati, the son of a silversmith and a seamstress, Piffarerio studied at the Brera Academy, where he met Gino Gavioli. In 1953 Gavioli and Piffarerio founded "Gamma Film", a pioneering company in the field of animation in Italy. Piffarerio realized several animation shorts for the TV show Carosello, as well as ''The Long Green Sock'' ( it, La lunga calza verde), a 1961 film about the history of Italy scripted by Cesare Zavattini. Piffarerio's first comic character, Capitan Falco, was created in 1943. He collaborated with writer Max Bunker on a number of comics series, including ''Viva l'Italia'' (1961), ''Maschera Nera'' (1963), ''El Gringo'' (1965) and '' Alan Ford'', where he pencilled about one hundred issues between 1975 and 1984. Piffarerio also collaborated with journalist and writer Enzo Biagi for his book series ''La storia d'Italia a fumetti'', and was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pino Zac
Giuseppe Zaccaria (23 April 1930 – 25 August 1985), best known as Pino Zac, was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and animator. Biography Born in Trapani, Sicily, Zac spent his childhood in Pratola Peligna, Abruzzo and eventually moved to Rome to study architecture. In 1951 he started his professional debut with the comic strip ''Gatto Filippo'', published in the newspaper ' until 1959. He later collaborated with a large number of European publications, including the Italian magazines ''Eureka'' and ''Pioniere'', the French magazines ''L'Écho des savanes'' and ''Le Canard enchaîné'', the British magazine ''Playtime'', the Polish magazine ''Spillky''. In 1977 he co-founded the satirical magazine ''Il Male'', of which he also realized several covers. Controversy Zac's profane, irreverent, sometimes brutal satire caused him several complaints and legal problems. Among his favorite targets, Zac's often focused on clergymen's corruption and sexual repression. Among his work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver (cartoonist)
Guido Silvestri (born 9 December 1952 in CarpiLUPO ALBERTO - MA E' VITA QUESTA? L'autore " ''''. Retrieved on 4 February 2012.), known by his pen name Silver, is an Italian comic book artist. Silver began his comics career as an apprentice of Franco Bonvicini (Bonvi). Silver created the series '''', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonvi
Bonvi, pen name of Franco Bonvicini (31 March 1941 – 10 December 1995) was an Italian comic book artist, creator of the comic strips '' Sturmtruppen'' and '' Nick Carter''. Biography Bonvicini was born either in Parma or Modena, in the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. The correct site is unknown, as his mother registered him in both places to obtain twice the amount of war-rationing food stamps. The author hinted at this fact in one of his ''Sturmtruppen'' comic books, where he usually hid autobiographical notes inside the dark humour of the books. After a brief experience in advertising work, he made his debut in the comics world in 1968 for the newspaper ''Paese Sera'' with his most famous strip '' Sturmtruppen''. ''Sturmtruppen'' was later translated in numerous countries outside Italy. While politically left-aligned and a pacifist, Bonvi was fascinated by war, and had served in the tank corps in postwar Italy. He also had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Weh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxmagnus
''Maxmagnus'' is an Italian comics series featuring an eponymous character, created in 1968 by Italian comic book creator Max Bunker and comics artist Magnus, for the magazine ''Eureka''. Publication history Maxmagnus was published in 1968–1970 in the form of 4/6-panels short histories, and the issued in a regular series in the 1980s, with art by Leone Cimpellin. ''Maxmagnus'' was also published in French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ... and Croatian. References Italian comics Italian comics titles Italian comics characters 1968 comics debuts Fictional kings Humor comics Satirical comics Comics set in the Middle Ages Fictional medieval European people Comics characters introduced in 1968 {{Italy-comics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
