''Blue'' was an Italian erotic auteur comics magazine, published from 1991 to 2009 in Rome, Italy.

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The magazine debuted in January 1991, and was published monthly and later bi-monthly.Gianni Bono. "Blue". ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Epierre, 2003. pp. 401-3. It was intended according to the founder and publisher Francesco Coniglio as "a

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, a rescue ship of creativity for many cartoonists, illustrators and photographers". During its first five years of history, it had a circulation of 20,000 copies per issue. It published series and short stories by Milo Manara,

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, Riccardo Mannelli, Guido Crepax,

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, Vittorio Giardino,

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, Paolo Bacilieri, Giovanna Casotto, Carlo Ravaioli, Silvio Cadelo,

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, among others. It also presented works by prominent international artists such as Robert Crumb, Jean Giraud, Matthias Schultheiss, Georges Wolinski,

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, Jacques Tardi, Eric Stanton,

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, Lydia Lunch,

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. The magazine closed in December 2009, with its #200 issue. The publisher launched in its place a short-lived new magazine, ''Touch'', subtitled "il sex appeal dell’immaginario" ("the sex appeal of imagination").

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