From Fellini’s Zampanò to Quinto’s Zampanò

From Fellini’s Zampanò to Quinto’s Zampanò

La strada (lit. ‘”The Road”‘) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini from his own screenplay co-written with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.

The idea for the character Zampanò came from Fellini’s youth in the coastal town of Rimini. A pig castrator lived there who was known as a womanizer: according to Fellini, “This man took all the girls in town to bed with him; once he left a poor idiot girl pregnant and everyone said the baby was the devil’s child.”[13] In 1992, Fellini told Canadian director Damian Pettigrew that he had conceived the film at the same time as co-scenarist Tullio Pinelli in a kind of “orgiastic synchronicity”.

Zampanò, art by Nadir Quinto

Born today Nadir Quinto

Born today Nadir Quinto

Nadir Quinto (26 November 1918 – 15 March 1994)   was born in Milan, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. He made his professional debut in 1946 in Il Corriere dei Piccoli. His work also appeared in Dinamite, Albi di Salgari, Festival and L’Intrepido. Between 1954 and 1964, he worked for the British market, doing illustration work and contributing ‘Robin Hood’ stories to Thriller Picture Library.

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Obscure fumetti Sabata

Obscure fumetti

Sabata

Anno: 1971 

Editore: Editoriale Italia

Quindicinale

Pagine: 64 

Bianco e nero

Lire: 100

Albi: 8

Disegni: Cartoonstudio (di Romano Mangiarano (Felmang, FG, R)

Copertina: Mario Caria

Johnny Manila & the Bouncer

Johnny Manila & the Bouncer

Bouncer è una serie a fumetti francese scritta da Alejandro Jodorowsky e disegnata da François Boucq

I primi sette volumi sono stati pubblicati da Les Humanoïdes Associés tra il 2001 e il 2009 a cui    

è subentrato Glénat dal 2012.

Bouncer è un pistolero con l’handicap di avere un braccio solo. Ottima serie e splendidi disegni. 

Sarebbe però stato “carino” che qualcuno dei tanti critici (gazzettieri li avrebbe chiamati Bernardi) si fosse ricordato di citare (di passaggio) Johnny Manila pubblicato dalle Edizioni Cerretti di Roma nel 1971. (30 anni prima). 

Testi: Furio Arrasich

Disegni: Angelo Todaro, Studio Di Vitto, Onofrio Bramante.

Born today Franco Oneta

Born today Franco Oneta

Franco Oneta (23 November 1934 – 11 January 2016)  was born in Casalbuttano and began in the comic field at the early age of 15 in 1949. His first work was for the Milanese publisher Pasquale Giurleo, drawing the character ‘Trottolo’, that later became ‘Trottolino’ when published by Bianconi. He cooperated with Messaggero dei Ragazzi between 1958 and 1964, illustrating series like ‘Spiritello’, ‘Anacleto’, ‘Pallino’, ‘Giuggola e Lenticchia’ and ‘Robin Poot’. For adventurous comics, he cooperated with the publishing house Casarotti, where he worked alongside Pietro Gamba on ‘Billy Rock’. He contributed stories to the weekly magazine Jolly for AVE, and he drew ‘Capitani Coraggiosi’, ‘I Ragazzi della via Paal’ and humorous stories like ‘Gendarme 00’ for Esploriamo of Editrice la Scuola.

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Born today Vittorio Cossio

Born today Vittorio Cossio

Born in Udine (Udine, 21 november 1911 – Roma, 7 april 1984) Vittorio Cossio (aka Cosvit, Cossvitt) soon moved to Milan, where he began a career in animation, alongside his brother Carlo Cossio. He also began making comics for magazines such as Rintintin, L’Intrépido and Saladino. He did his best known work for Il Corriere dei Piccoli. For this magazine, he created such comics as ‘Balilla Venturino’ in 1935 and ‘Centaurino Diodato’ in 1939. He was also one of the early artists of the publishing house Bonelli (then still called Audace). 

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