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Bon Anniversaire René “le roi” Goscinny

16 Agosto 2016/in NEWS

♪♫ B o N ♪♫ A n N i V e R s A i R e♫ ♪ René “le roi” Goscinny

René Goscinny (Parigi, 14 agosto 1926 – Parigi, 5 novembre 1977) è stato un fumettista, editore e umorista francese, famoso nel settore dei fumetti per ragazzi.Numerose le pubblicazioni a cui ha partecipato e le serie da lui portate al successo, tra queste Lucky Luke e, in sodalizio con il disegnatore Albert Uderzo, Asterix. È anche autore dei racconti per bambini della serie Le petit Nicolas.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Goscinny

Domenica d’Agosto Movie

15 Agosto 2016/in CINEMA

Domenica d’Agosto Movie.

Favourite film territory here and this is quite a discovery. On a summer weekend the whole of Rome is piling down to the beach at Ostia. About eight separate threads follow various groups and individuals having their day out: a working class family including a couple of nubile young ladies; a bunch of cyclists plus a kid brother on the crossbar; a jaded man who can’t bear to be apart from his young daughter at the adjacent summer camp; an aristocratic gathering at the private beach club on the other side. The film, like the beach, is bursting with life. Situations are developed and resolved with breath-taking wit and economy as relationships are formed, ended, or otherwise worked out. The long day had by all is suffused with the overarching irony that their supposedly leisurely day out is actually quite exhausting. Everyone shares the limelight in equal measure; Mastroianni appears in his first significant role, but standing out is Anna Baldini – whose one and only film appearance this is and her nascent relationship with Franco Interlenghi is perhaps the film’s centrepiece: truly great the wistful music as the couple get lost and start their long isolated walk back through the maquis – the director being fully aware of what the characters are not: that through all the chaos, this is the time of everyone’s life. I don’t mind admitting that it had me welling up many times simply because it was so satisfying, or perhaps because it managed to remind me that I’m still human.

Domenica d’Agosto / Sunday in August (1950)

It’s August in Rome and it seems like the whole town has a single mission – go to the beach! You can watch this charming, time-capsule of a movie below (76 minutes). In this light comedy, categorized under “Pink Neorealism,” precursor to later Italian comedy genre (considering that just a year earlier in 1948 Vittorio di Sica released the emblematic Neorealistic film Bicycle Thieves featuring real existential needs!) – director Luciano Emmer provides a much lighter view of post-WWII Italian society.

The plot leverages what I call “channel-zapping” storytelling technique, where four distinct stories are switched back and forth: the cyclists, the big common family, the rich folks and the humble couple. Four stories for which apparently only two are connected, vividly paint a lively, and quiet authentic picture of summer pastime habits of Romans in the late 1940’s.

Domenica d’agosto – Sunday in August (Luciano Emmer -1949)

Xtina mid-August strip

14 Agosto 2016/in XTINA

Xtina the mid-august comic-strip, Xtina is a comic-strip created by Monica

Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.

Xtina’s comic-strip, subject, Art and Script-writer: Monica

the Reporters episode 3 #5

13 Agosto 2016/in THE REPORTERS

the Reporters episode 3 #5

The adventures of The reporters (new episode #3), two T. V. journalists whose jobs lead them to come up against major and minor dramas.

To give an idea of the style, their stories resemble the T. V. series Hill Street Blues and N.Y. Police Dept. Besides the story, the human side of the main characters and their interpersonal relationships are developed.

The main characters:

Harry, the eldest, once a newspaper reporter (like Lou Grant) changed over to T. V. during the Vietnam period. His thorny character keeps him away from office work and leads him to work out and about with his colleague Allen. Divorced, his wife Linda does not want to see him so he communicates through their daughter Kay, who lives with him.

Allen, Harrys young colleague, whose experience so far has been in television, has been teamed up with the older man to learn the trade. More easy-going and lighter-hearted, a sense of genuine affection binds him to Harry and his feelings for Kay go even deeper.

Kay, Harrys 18 years old daughter is her sophomore year of college majoring in English literature. Even though she has nothing to do with the work of her father and Allen, she seems to fit in with them perfectly. She longs to eventually become a script writer and her closeness to Hollywood is for her a constant inspiration. She is not unaware of Allens shy advances but she keeps him at a distance while at the same time stringing him along.

Four episodes made so far:

1) An elderly rival journalist, who feels his life is passing before him without his having accomplished anything, gets into serious trouble by trying to murder someone so as to be able to do a good deed.

2) Misguided young journalist friend of Allens pointlessly needles the powers that be of the gangster world by creating a fake scoop.

3) Harry passes up a scoop so as not to ruin the few remaining months left in the life of an elderly actor forced to make soap operas to survive.

4) Kay, attracted by the movie world, meets a director but her life is endangered by the mans mental instability, brought to a peak by divorce.

Mathias and Anna volume 2

12 Agosto 2016/in MATHIAS, OTHER

Mathias and Anna volume 2

scheduled October 2016

Commissario Spada by Gianni De Luca

10 Agosto 2016/in NEWS

Commissario Spada by Gianni De Luca.

Gianni de Luca (Gagliato, 27 gennaio 1927 – Roma, 6 giugno 1991) è stato un fumettista, illustratore, pittore e incisore italiano.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_de_Luca#Il_commissario_Spada

Il commissario Spada

Dopo alcuni anni dedicati all’illustrazione, il 1967 segna il ritorno al fumetto con L’ultima Atlantide, storia dai toni melodrammatici ospitata sulle pagine de Il Giornalino a tutta pagina a colori. Ristampata una prima volta in bianco e nero e in formato leggermente ridotto su Comics di marzo/maggio 1974, in calce alla prima tavola si legge la data di esecuzione: 6 marzo 1957, ma già alla 4ª tavola si passa alla firma autografa seguita da 64 (1964).

Il 1969 è un anno molto importante nella carriera di de Luca. Non solo per il suo ritorno definitivo al fumetto con Bob Jason, ciclo di genere western, ma soprattutto è l’anno che precede l’esordio, sempre sulle pagine de Il Giornalino, del commissario Eugenio Spada, le cui avventure vengono scritte dal giornalista e scrittore di fantascienza Gian Luigi Gonano, che alla fine degli anni sessanta lavora ancora come freelance a Parigi. I due autori vengono presentati da Gino Tomaselli, redattore della testata e modello per la prima versione di Spada, nonché ispiratore della serie: il personaggio di Spada è in sé semplice ma assolutamente innovativo per molti motivi. In primo luogo la rivista che lo pubblicava era un giornale rivolto ai ragazzi e ai giovani, a quel tempo distribuito soprattutto nelle parrocchie e questo dà l’idea di quanto coraggiosa potesse essere la proposta; poi, a differenza di molti altri fumetti dell’epoca, era assolutamente aderente alla realtà violenta di tutti i giorni, in particolare a quella di Milano. I due autori, grazie al contemporaneo appoggio della redazione, dell’editore e del pubblico, poterono continuare fino al 1982 nella loro opera: da un lato Gonano con testi e storie assolutamente attuali (indagini classiche, criminalità organizzata, sette sataniche, terroristi, assassini, sono solo alcuni dei temi trattati) e con soventi alleggerimenti (grazie al sapiente utilizzo del figlio di Spada, Mario, ed all’inserimento di gag e trovate comiche utili a spezzare la tensione), dall’altro i personaggi asciutti e al contempo nervosi di de Luca, dettagliati ed espressivi.

Così, mentre oltreoceano il fumetto era uscito dalla rivoluzione cinematografica dello Spirit eisneriano, in Italia Gianni de Luca proponeva tavole con vignette orizzontali, sagome appena abbozzate per dare l’idea del movimento e, sempre per lo stesso motivo, personaggi presenti più volte nella stessa vignetta, quasi come se non si accontentassero dell’angusto spazio offerto dalla griglia classica. Questa idea, abbastanza ardita ma al tempo stesso apprezzata, viene portata ai massimi livelli quando viene proposto all’artista calabrese di realizzare una versione a fumetti di tre grandi opere shakespeariane: Amleto, La tempesta e Romeo e Giulietta.

Golden age comic strips: Ley

8 Agosto 2016/in NEWS

Golden age comic strips. French. Edgar Ley Born in Peking into a Walloon-Dutch family, Edgar Ley studied fine arts in Brussels, Belgium. He began his artistic career as a press illustrator. In 1949 he was present in the Flemish magazine Kleine Zondagsvriend with the historical comics stories ‘Dirk, de held van Brugge’ and ‘Carausius, de Vlaamse Cesar’

Frank, daily comic strips. 1500 strips, 1952 to 1958

Retour sur terre, au début des années 50. Frank et Linda s’aventurent en pays Maya, lieu d’un culte cruel pour une idole au regard vert, lieu où la belle Princesse Zarina n’a d’yeux que pour Frank… Dans la lignée des bandes belges avec texte sous l’image, notamment “Eric l’homme du nord”, de Hans Kresse, Edgar Ley a publié dans le quotidien belge “Le Peuple”, de 1951 à 1955, 12 épisodes, soit 952 bandes de Frank, un aventurier qui faisait alors preuve d’une modernité restée sans suite. La cause en est certainement dans le manque de diffusion de la série, qui n’a pas été reprise en dehors de son quotidien d’origine. En 1951, trois albums étaient sortis, reprenant les trois premiers épisodes. C’est le second d’entre eux qui est réédité par Pressibus en l’année 2000, presque 50 ans plus tard…

Xtina’s august

7 Agosto 2016/in XTINA

Xtina the first strip of august, Xtina is a comic-strip created by Monica

Xtina comic strips are centered on the life of Xtina in her work as assistant in a Museum. Xtina’s chronicles the daily challenges of a worker. At work, we follow Xtina as she copes with friends, relationships, and the day-to-day trials of a working woman living life in the 21st century.

Xtina’s comic-strip, subject, Art and Script-writer: Monica

Dalla presentazione di Gianfranco Goria:

Eccola qui, Monica (figlia d’arte, mi dicono, con una naturale propensione, si direbbe, per le strip statunitensi, così efficaci, così difficili da fare bene). Eccola col suo tratto essenziale e pulito (perfetto per la rete, ma pubblicato sulla carta stampata), da leggere con leggerezza per ricavarne un sorriso e qualche pensiero intelligente.

Al momento l’autrice ha appena qualche anno in più della protagonista della sua striscia, XTINA, lavoratrice museuale diciannovenne ingabbiata in quel banco informazioni che, se da un lato la rende libera e autonoma, dall’altro la costringe a fuggire costantemente con la fantasia (da ex impiegato di concetto, come la capisco…). L’arte arriva fino a quel banco, anche se magari non nel modo che la ragazza avrebbe voluto, ma non è l’unica a desiderare di più per la propria vita: c’è anche, per dire, un giovane in divisa che, per ora, sembra davvero fare tanta fatica a trovare quel che cerca… Ma, no, non ci si deve rassegnare! Oh, no. C’è tutta una vita davanti! In fondo “un anno nuovo è un foglio bianco tutto da scrivere”… Oh… cioé… insomma… cestini permettendo.

Immagino le sue giovani lettrici, immedesimarsi con estrema facilità. Immagino i padri delle sue lettrici, riconoscere (e forse scoprire) le proprie figlie. Immagino altre strisce e altre ancora che verranno e mi chiedo se XTINA crescerà anche lei, nel suo mondo a strisce, e troverà le cose belle della vita che la attendono, appena un poco più in là.

the Reporters episode 3 page 4

6 Agosto 2016/in THE REPORTERS

The adventures of The reporters (new episode #3), two T. V. journalists whose jobs lead them to come up against major and minor dramas.

To give an idea of the style, their stories resemble the T. V. series Hill Street Blues and N.Y. Police Dept. Besides the story, the human side of the main characters and their interpersonal relationships are developed.

The main characters:

Harry, the eldest, once a newspaper reporter (like Lou Grant) changed over to T. V. during the Vietnam period. His thorny character keeps him away from office work and leads him to work out and about with his colleague Allen. Divorced, his wife Linda does not want to see him so he communicates through their daughter Kay, who lives with him.

Allen, Harrys young colleague, whose experience so far has been in television, has been teamed up with the older man to learn the trade. More easy-going and lighter-hearted, a sense of genuine affection binds him to Harry and his feelings for Kay go even deeper.

Kay, Harrys 18 years old daughter is her sophomore year of college majoring in English literature. Even though she has nothing to do with the work of her father and Allen, she seems to fit in with them perfectly. She longs to eventually become a script writer and her closeness to Hollywood is for her a constant inspiration. She is not unaware of Allens shy advances but she keeps him at a distance while at the same time stringing him along.

Four episodes made so far:

1) An elderly rival journalist, who feels his life is passing before him without his having accomplished anything, gets into serious trouble by trying to murder someone so as to be able to do a good deed.

2) Misguided young journalist friend of Allens pointlessly needles the powers that be of the gangster world by creating a fake scoop.

3) Harry passes up a scoop so as not to ruin the few remaining months left in the life of an elderly actor forced to make soap operas to survive.

4) Kay, attracted by the movie world, meets a director but her life is endangered by the mans mental instability, brought to a peak by divorce.

Anna e Mathias vanno in vacanza

5 Agosto 2016/in MATHIAS

Anna e Mathias vanno in vacanza e torneranno venerdì 26 agosto.

Illustrazione di Eva Castelli.

Dopo aver frequentato la scuola del fumetto di Milano ha iniziato a lavorare presso il Kawaii Studio e a collaborare come colorista per svariati progetti Disney. Nel mentre collabora con qualche autoproduzione ed è sempre alla ricerca di lavori nuovi. Inizia a colorare le tavole di Mathias qualche anno più tardi, dopo aver incontrato Giancarlo e aver concluso con lui progetti come Anna dai capelli rossi e Nuvolari.

GENRE:

Adventure/Mystery/

TARGET READERSHIP:

All ages, both sexes

SETTING:

Well known and characteristic cities and locations in Italy

SET IN:

The Present Day

STRUCTURE & TONE OF THE STORIES:The two protagonists in this series are children and, despite their superhuman potentialities, they behave as such. They always travel accompanied by an adult, they never go out late at night and wherever they stay they’re in the company of relatives. It is within this context that the storyline develops in its own way. They’re not out to put the world to rights, yet they are endowed with a strong sense of justice and they seek to do good in the face of evil.