2003
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3.77
Average Rating
272
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Un cowboy che beve camomilla, uno Zorry Kid che balla il flamenco a suon di nacchere, un arcipoliziotto di nome Cip e gli spericolati Pippo, Pertica e Palla: ecco i protagonisti di questa raccolta jacovittesca che di questi indimenticabili personaggi raccoglie alcuni dei momenti migliori. "Coccobill fa sette più" è il gioiello con cui Jacovitti segnò, nel '68, l'esordio del suo eroe nel Corriere dei Piccoli: in questa avventura Cocco se la deve vedere con i terribili Kuknass Brothers, sette fratelloni senza scrupoli. Sempre il cowboy è protagonista di Coccobilliput, mentre Pippo, Pertica e Palla sono impegnati in una gara di volo e Zagar, nemico giurato di Cip, viene messo a confronto con il suo doppio. In un tripudio di vermi con il cappello e di salami ingessati, tutta l'arte assurda di un grande maestro del fumetto.
Avg Rating
3.77
Number of Ratings
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Author
Benito Jacovitti
Author · 2 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,
