Cucciolo is the title character of an Italian long-lasting comic book series.

Background

Cucciolo, together with the inseparable friend Beppe, are a couple of comic characters created in 1940 by Giuseppe Caregaro as writer and Rino Anzi as artist as an imitation of Disney characters

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and

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.Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990, pp. 30–31 They were originally drawn as two cute anthropomorphic animals, and were protagonists of humorous-adventure stories in which they face the bad Bombarda, an imitation of

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. Their stories were originally published in the comic magazine ''Gli Albi Del Scimiottino'' and in a number of other magazines, then Cucciolo named an eponym comic magazine, published by Edizioni Alpe (later Edizioni Bianconi) from 1948 to 1986. Starting from post-war era the cartoonist

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revolutionized the comics, turning the two protagonists in two humans, giving them well-defined personalities and enhancing the satirical side of their stories. Several supporting characters, such as the superhero

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and the wolf Pugacioff, later became they themselves leading characters of successful spin-off series.

References

Italian comic strips Italian comics characters Comics magazines published in Italy Male characters in comics Male characters in advertising Satirical comics Comics characters introduced in 1940 1940 comics debuts Humor comics Magazines established in 1948 Magazines disestablished in 1986 1986 comics endings Magazine mascots Mascots introduced in 1940 Italian-language magazines Defunct magazines published in Italy Fictional Italian people {{Italy-comics-stub