''Marmittone'' is an Italian comic strip series created by Bruno Angoletta.

Background

Started in , Marmittone ("rooky") is derived from the "marmitta", the huge pot in which the military rations are cooked. The main character is a simple-minded soldier and of good will who, for his gaffes or simply for misfortune, goes to prison at the end of any adventure.B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 1976, pp. 32-33. The comic strip was published by ''

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 r ...

'' until 1940, a few weeks before the outbreak of World War II. ''Marmittone'' is considered a parody of Fascist values of militarism and virility and was referred as "the most coherent and irreducible underhand antagonist of the soldierly stereotypes of any dictatorship".Antonio Faeti, "L'ombra di Marmittone in una piazza metafisica", ''La Metafisica: gli Anni Venti'', vol. II, Grafis, 1980, p. 257, cited in Kate Ferris, ''Everyday Life in Fascist Venice, 1929-40'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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