Mary Perkins or Mary Atkins?

Mary Perkins/on Stage  è stata pubblicata per anni in Italia sulle pagine del quotidiano Il Giorno. Forse pochi ricordano che il nome della protagonista – e di conseguenza della strip – fu mutato in Mary Atkins. L’unica spiegazione si può cercare con la paralella presenza della strip Perkins di John Miles pubblicata sulla stessa pagina di comics.

… whoever has read the comics of Mary Atkins (1) published on “Il Giorno,” will note how the drawings are laid out through varied frame solutions with a highly technical assembly (the artist belongs to the great Alex Raymond school) with very unusual and  daring angles and perspectives inspired by cinematographic language, contrasts (frame after frame) with views from a distance, from above, to settings in which the “lens” (ideally speaking) focuses on the characters through the gap of another character’s arms, drawn in a foreground close-up etc.

 

(1) The name of the protagonist – and consequently the strip, was changed to Mary Atkins. The only explanation can be found in the parallel presence of the strip Perkins by John Miles published on the same comics page

 

from: Apocalittici e integrati, Umberto Eco, 1964

Galep disegna Adam?

Galep disegna Adam?

Sarebbe stato interessante, ma…

Stralcio di testo dalla presentazione del volume Adam.

Non si chiamava Adam, e non siamo nemmeno sicuri che fosse di origine statunitense. Uomini come lui ce ne sono molti in giro per il mondo, uomini che hanno reciso nettamente le loro radici. Noi ne abbiamo conosciuto uno, uno dei tanti. Ci siamo ispirati a lui o la sua vita calzava come un guanto alla nostra storia? Facciamo un salto indietro, un bel salto…

…Del personaggio ho già alcuni bozzetti fatti da disegnatori famosi (Galep, Magnus, ecc) che, beata incoscienza, avevo coinvolto ma che non avrebbero mai disegnato il fumetto…

He may not even have been called Adam, there are lots of men like him around the world, men who have clearly cut their roots, whatever the soil they fed on. No one chooses the place to be born in. When he revealed himself, just one among many, we “recognized” him and molded him. Did we draw inspiration from his life even before we knew him? Or did his life perfectly fit, like a glove with that cartoon strip we still had not written nor drawn?

One day we decided to go and rinse the palettes in the Tropical seas and go on a long holiday around the isle of Cuba.  We were really itching to see the places we had drawn and imagined and illustrated. Suddenly, one night, there he was!

Impossible but it’s him!

Seated at the same piano he played every night, Adam was there.

Giancarlo Malagutti made his debut with illustrations of some stories for the monthly Horror magazine, then worked with the Intrepido Albo and Monello, and later drew the strips of Zaniboni for Diabolik, after which decided to leave aside this work for screenplays.

Manlio Truscia Started with the strips of Tex in 1964. From the 70s to the 80s did the strips of Kriminal and Satanik and drew for Intrepido and Monello for the Universo editors, Edifumetto, Ediperiodici and Adamo of the Corno publishers. He later worked as a visualizer and illustrator.

Adam sketches in Cienfuegos

Un bel giorno decidiamo di andare a risciacquare le tavole nei mari dei Tropici e partiamo per una lunga vacanza per l’isola di Cuba. Siamo curiosi di vedere i luoghi che abbiamo salgarianamente immaginato e illustrato. E’ la Cuba prima della caduta del Muro, non ancora presa d’assalto da troppi turisti ( spesso cialtroni ), paese splendido, gente magnifica…

Ci sembra di essere magicamente entrati nel nostro fumetto. Una sera, in una buia cantina che finge ( pur fungendo ) di essere un bar, facciamo conoscenza con il pianista che suona piú per sé che per i distratti e piuttosto cotti avventori.

E’ notte fonda quando andiamo a bere l’ultimo bicchiere di rum in quello che lui chiama “il mio ufficio” : una branda, due sedie e alcune stampelle per i pochi abiti appese a una corda tesa tra due pareti che si guardano troppo da vicino. « Io sono nato artista » ci dice con solennità. E chi ne dubita ? « Qui sono con… e guardate questa ! quando ho suonato insieme a… », e quindi foto della Rivoluzione…

E all’improvviso : eccolo ! Impossibile ma è Lui ! Seduto allo stesso pianoforte che suona ogni sera il nostro ospite, c’è Adam. Dobbiamo saperne di piú : chi è ? che fa ? ma dove si trova ora ?

Dalla postfazione del Volume Adam, disponibile solo su

www.outisfumetti.com

 

all Mantua in the world: Graphic Novel W.I.P.

all Mantua in the world: Graphic Novel W.I.P.

Mantua (Italian: Mantova ) is a city and commune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.

In 2016, Mantua is Italian Capital of Culture, as chosen by the Italian Government on Tuesday 27 October 2015. (The official opening ceremony was held on the 9th of April, 2016). In 2017, Mantua will also be European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District (together with the cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona).

In 2007, Mantua’s centro storico (old town) and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua’s historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is the place where the composer Monteverdi premiered his opera L’Orfeo and where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare‘s play Romeo and Juliet. It is the nearest town to the birthplace of the Roman poet Virgil, who was commemorated by a statue at the lakeside park “Piazza Virgiliana”.

Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes, created during the 12th century, as the city’s defence system. These lakes receive water from the Mincio River, a tributary of the Po River which descends from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore (“Upper”, “Middle”, and “Lower” Lakes, respectively). A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once served as a defensive water ring around the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century.

The area and its environs are important not only in naturalistic terms, but also anthropologically and historically; research has highlighted a number of human settlements scattered between Barche di Solferino and Bande di Cavriana, Castellaro and Isolone del Mincio. These dated, without interruption, from Neolithic times (5th–4th millennium BC) to the Bronze Age (2nd–1st millennium BC) and the Gallic phases (2nd–1st centuries BC), and ended with Roman residential settlements, which could be traced to the 3rd century AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantua

Spider-Man 60th anniversary Italian

Spider-Man 60th anniversary Italian

Nel nostro piccolo anche noi abbiamo celebrato il tessiragnatele. SuperGulp! Fumetti in TV è stato un programma televisivo dedicato al mondo dei fumetti trasmesso dalla RAI e creato da Guido De Maria e Giancarlo Governi, con le musiche di Franco Godi nel 1972. Alla ripresa del programma nel 1977 la Mondadori mandò in edicola un settimanale a fumetti con lo stesso titolo SuperGulp che riprendeva (in parte) i personaggi della trasmissione. Furono realizzati episodi dei maggiori supereroi dell’epoca, quali i Fantastici Quattro e L’Uomoragno. Qui uno degli episodi realizzati da Giancarlo Malagutti Giorgio Montorio.

 

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