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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] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. It is the application of a combination of sciences such as biology, chemistry, economics, ecology, earth science, and genetics. Professionals of agronomy are termed agronomists. Plant breeding This topic of agronomy involves selective breeding of plants to produce the best crops for various conditions. Plant breeding has increased crop yields and has improved the nutritional value of numerous crops, including corn, soybeans, and wheat. It has also resulted in the development of new types of plants. For example, a hybrid grain named triticale was produced by crossbreeding rye and wheat. Triticale contains more usable protein than does either rye or wheat. Agronomy has also been instrumental for fruit and vegetable producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 '' Maxmagnus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazzetta Di Parma
''Gazzetta di Parma'' is a daily newspaper published in Parma, Italy. It is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the country. History and profile ''Gazzetta di Parma'' was established as a weekly newspaper in 1735. Cesare Zavattini started his career in the paper. Early contributors included Giovannino Guareschi, Giuseppe Verdi, Arturo Toscanini, Alberto Bevilacqua, Luca Goldoni and Leonardo Sciascia. The daily focuses on local news related to Parma. The circulation of ''Gazzetta di Parma'' was 43,000 copies in 2007. See also * List of newspapers in Italy This is a list of newspapers in Italy. The number of daily print newspapers in Italy was 107 in 1950, whereas it was 78 in 1965. It has further declined since and 74 are listed in this article: 21 national newspapers, 50 regional or local newspape ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gazzetta di Parma 1735 establishments in Italy Daily newspapers published in Italy Italian-language newspapers Mass med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Messaggero
''Il Messaggero'' (Italian : "The Messenger") is an Italian newspaper based in Rome, Italy. It has been in circulation since 1878. History and profile ''Il Messaggero'' was founded in December 1878. On 1 January 1879, the first issue of ''Il Messaggero'' was published, under the management of Luigi Cesana. The paper aimed at being the newspaper of newspapers and at providing its readers with all opinions and all events. The first four copies of the paper were delivered as free samples to the subscribers of the newspaper, '' Il Fanfulla''. One of the early editors-in-chief of ''Il Messaggero'' was Alberto Cianca who resigned from the post due to political reasons. Since its inception, ''Il Messaggero'' has been owned by different companies. One of the former owners is Montedison through the Ferruzzi Group. In 1996 the paper was acquired by Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. He founded the Caltagirone Editore in 1999. The company is the majority owner of the paper which has its 90%. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Giorno (newspaper)
''Il Giorno'' is an Italian-language national daily newspaper, based in Milan, Italy; it has numerous local editions in Lombardy. History and profile ''Il Giorno'' was founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca on 21 March 1956, with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge ''Corriere della Sera'', also a daily newspaper published in Milan. Later, because of a financial crisis, Italian public administrator Enrico Mattei and the state-owned oil company Eni bought part of the publishing company. The paper maintains a liberal political stance. In 1959, Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the newspaper's editor. One of the former contributors of the paper was Adolfo Battaglia. In 1997, Eni sold ''Il Giorno'' to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers (''il Resto del Carlino'' and ''La Nazione'') under the ''Quotidiano Nazionale'' network. In 2000, ''Il Giorno'' switched from a broadsheet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Only
''Men Only'' is a British magazine title that originated in 1935 as a pocket-sized men's magazine. It became a standard-sized Pin-up model, pin-up magazine in the 1950s and was relaunched in 1971 by Paul Raymond Publications as a soft-core pornographic magazine. Publication history 1935–1965: Pearson ''Men Only'' was founded in 1935 by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd (at that point an imprint of George Newnes Ltd) as a Digest magazine, pocket magazine (4½" x 6½"; 115×165 mm). It set out its editorial stall in the first issue: "We don't want women readers. We won't have women readers...." It sought "bright articles on current male topics." Humour was at the heart of the title, though from the start it carried fiction (including by P. G. Wodehouse), wide-ranging articles, and plates of "art" nudes. Covers were initially text-only, then carried caricatures of famous people until mid-1958, when photographic covers took over; photographers included John Everard (photographer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy. History The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1912 he founded ''La Sociale'' and published the first book ''AiaMadama'' together with his close friend Tommaso Monicelli and the following year, ''La Lampada'', a series of children's books. The publishing house kept working intensely even during the First World War, mainly on the publication of magazines for the troops on the front such as ''La Tradotta'', which included contributions from famous illustrators and writers such as Soffici, De Chirico and Carrà. In 1919 the publishing house headquarters were transferred to Milan. After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels, by internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (, – Bussum, ), though since 2007, his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owner. From 1968 to 2015, it was located in the Kerkstraat, but in November 2015, the store moved to the Koningsstraat 27. As of 2018, Lambiek is the oldest comics store in Europe, and the oldest worldwide still in existence. The name "Lambiek" originated as a misspelling of the name of the comics character Lambik, from the popular Suske & Wiske comic book series created by Belgian artist Willy Vandersteen. The logo of the shop is an image from the ''Suske en Wiske'' album ''Prinses Zagemeel'' (''Princess Sawdust''). History Only two earlier comic bookstores are known to have opened their doors on the North-American continent (or anywhere else on the world for that matter) prior to the one founded by Kousemaker; George Henderson's Canadian, Toronto-based Memory Lane Books opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Writers From Milan
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing style In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, t ...s and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, Short story, short stories, books, poetry, Travel literature, travelogues, Play (theatre), plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and Article (publishing), news articles that may be of interest to the Public, general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of Mass media, media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the Culture, cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
