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

Vendo originale Magritte

Vendo originale Magritte

Con scritta rifatta perché quell’altra – troppo vecchia – non ci piaceva.

Come?

Così perde di valore?

E invece le tavole a fumetti con balloon orribilmente spostati, sfondi ammazzati con quintali di bianchetto e rifatti da un anonimo grafico conservano il valore (economico) dell’originalità?

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.

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