Cocco Bill is an Italian comics character by

Benito Jacovitti Benito Jacovitti (; March 19, 1923 – December 3, 1997) was an Italian comics artist. Biography Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Molise. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a rai ...

. He is the star of a parody Western comic set in hypothetical places in the Far West. He is a hot-tempered gunslinger who drinks chamomile tea. Occasionally mocked for this, Bill responds with violence. Despite these outbursts, Cocco Bill is a good guy, and always helps sheriffs to capture criminals. After Jacovitti's death in 1997 the series was continued by Luca Salvagno. Cocco Bill's horse is called Trottalemme (which literally means "trot slowly"). The animal reasons like humans, smokes cigarettes, drinks tequila and also dreams at night.

Style

As in most of Jacovitti's comics, the page is full of strange things: all around the place one can find salami (sometimes legged), worms with legs and hats, fish bones (typically close to the artist's signature), as well as horses with only two legs ridden by a man with four legs, and other absurdities. Many of the stories themselves are vignettes, pertaining to a surrealist American west (some issues happens in various other countries, like Canada) Most revolve around the titular character going to a new town and having to deal with whatever situation or mission is given to him by the local authorities.

Adaptations

In 2001 Cocco Bill was adapted into an

animated TV series An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either ...

, consisting of 104 episodes of in total 13 minutes in length per episode.

References

External links

Cocco Bill – Wild West parody by Benito Jacovitti

Cocco Bill and Jacovitti bibliography

Italian comics Italian comics characters Italian comics titles Western (genre) comics characters Western (genre) comics 1957 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1957 Comics adapted into animated series Comics adapted into television series Fictional gunfighters {{Italy-comics-stub