''Pier Cloruro de' Lambicchi'' is an Italian

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

series created by Giovanni Manca.

Background

''Pier Cloruro de' Lambicchi'' debuted in the children 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 ...

'' in 1930.B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 1976, pp.27-28. The comics strip ended publications in the late 1940s, then briefly resurfaced in 1967 in the comics magazine ''

Il Giorno dei Ragazzi ''Il Giorno dei Ragazzi'' was a weekly comic supplement magazine of the Italian newspaper ''Il Giorno (newspaper), Il Giorno'', published between 1957 and 1968. History and profile The comic magazine debuted on 28 March 1957. It was originally in ...

''. The title character of the comics is a scientist who created in his ramshackle laboratory a special paint, called "arcivernice", which has the unique property of giving life to the characters depicted in the paintings and drawings.

References

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