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

Georgie the Giant became Grissino in Italy

Georgie the Giant became Grissino in Italy

Grissino (Georgie the Giant)

Georgie the Giant is a character that first appeared in Popeye #51 in 1960, published by Dell in the story “The Giant“. 

Script: Bud Sagendorf

Pencils: Bud Sagendorf

Inks: Bud Sagendorf

Known as Grissino (‘Breadstick’), became a very popular character in Italy, starring in a back-up feature in Popeye comic books produced there. Due to his popularity, he also received his own title in 1974.

Script: Alberico Motta, Alessandro Dossi, Pierluigi Sangalli

Art: Alessandro Dossi, Pierluigi Sangalli

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