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By Tiziano Sclavi, Aurelio Galleppini, Gianluigi Bonelli, and more

Το τέυχος #4 περιέχει τις εξής ιστορίες: 1. Zagor "Το μυστηριώδες ίχνος" (B' Μέρος) "Με κομμένη την ανάσα" (αυτοτελής) "Προτεραιότητα" (αυτοτελής) 2. Cocco Bill "Σαλούν" (αυτοτελής) "Κόσμε πιστόλι!" (αυτοτελής) "Ουγκ" (αυτοτελής) 3. Jonny Logan "Η μηχανική μπεφάνα" (αυτοτελής)

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Benito Jacovitti

Author · 7 books

Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Italy. The son of a railwayman, he entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to Firenze's art institute five years later. In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine satirical magazine Il Brivido and, a year later, he began an almost 30-year long collaboration with Il Vittorioso, a Catholic comic magazine targeted at teenagers and young adults that only published Italian artists. There he created several characters: Pippo, Pertica e Palla, Oreste il guastafeste, Chicchiricchì, Cip l'arcipoliziotto and his nemesis Zagar, Giacinto corsaro dipinto, Jack Mandolino, La signora Carlomagno, adaptations of classic like Ali Baba and Don Quixote, and parodies of famous comics like L'onorevole Tarzan and Il mago Mandrago. During this period, he also contributed cartoons to the satirical weekly Il Travaso delle idee. Starting from 1949, Jacovitti produced a series of cartoons for school diaries, named I Diari Vitt (short for Vittorioso). These books made him a household name among kids and parents, and he kept producing them until 1980. In 1956 he began working for the newspaper Il Giorno, where he created his best known character, the cowboy Cocco Bill, as well as the private eye Tom Ficcanaso. Ten years later Jacovitti left Il Giorno to join Il Corriere dei Piccoli, then the most popular weekly publication for kids, for which he renewed old characters as Cip l'Arcipoliziotto and Zagar, and created new ones like Zorry Kid and Tarallino Tarallà. In 1973 he published the controversial Gionni Peppe on the left-wing oriented magazine Linus, followed in 1981 by Joe Balordo. Jacovitti's unique artstyle is immediately appealing to both kids and adults: his characters sport huge noses and feet, his pages are chock full of details and all sort of objects and weird creatures born from his untamed creativity. While most of his production was geared toward humour and parody, Jacovitti did not shy away from more controversial material like the erotic book Kamasultra (based on the Kama Sutra) and political cartoons. During his career, Jacovitti created more than 60 characters and produced around 150 books,

Giovanni Luigi Bonelli made his professional debut in 1926, when his first poems and articles were published in several Italian magazines. During the 1930s, he shifted his focus to comics, and became one of the editors at the publishing house Editrice Vecchi S.A. In 1945 he collaborated with publisher Giovanni De Leo on 'Il Cow Boy', and with Antonio Canale on 'Yorga'. In 1946 and 1947, he edited 'La Perla Nera' for Franco Caprioli. After many more collaborations, in 1948 he created the famous 'Tex Willer', originally drawn by Aurelio Galleppini. Gianluigi Bonelli produced, over the years, an enormous amount of comic scenarios, but his main activity was publication. Publishing house Bonelli, which has been taken over by his son Sergio, produced many comic series, including the legendary 'Dylan Dog' and 'Martin Mystère' (written by Alfredo Castelli, drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini, among others), and is one of the most important comic publishers in Italy. Gianluigi Bonelli's influence on the development of Italian comics cannot be overestimated. - from Lambiek Comiclopedia

Romano Garofalo

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