Gianconiglio, internationally known as Sonny, is an Italian comic strip created by

Carlo Peroni Carlo Peroni (29 November 1929 – 13 December 2011), also known as Perogatt, was an Italian comic book artist. Born in Senigallia, Ancona, Peroni started his career in 1946 as a restorer and an icon painter. In 1948 he started collaborating w ...

. The comic strip started in 1971, published in the comics magazine ''

Il Corriere dei Piccoli The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' (Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a re ...

'', with Carlo Triberti as scriptwriter; it was translated in a number of foreign countries, remarkably obtaining a great success in Germany.Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990, pp. 179–180 Over the years several other authors alternated, such as Roberto Arghinoni, Francois Corteggiani and Umberto Volpini as writers and Umberto Manfrin, Pinù Intini and Attilio Ortolani as artists.

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Italian comics titles Comics characters introduced in 1971 Italian comics characters Fictional rabbits and hares 1971 comics debuts Humor comics {{Italy-comics-stub