2005
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Un lungo viaggio attraverso il mitico Diario Vitt, quello che per tanti anni gli studenti italiani hanno promosso a loro inseparabile compagno di studi! Autore di quei diari era il grande, unico Jacovitti, che costruiva per l’occasione lunghissime saghe dei suoi più celebri personaggi. In questa raccolta, del tutto inedita, le storie di Pippo, Pertica e Palla, dal Diario del 1971, di Jak Mandolino (e del suo maldestro consigliere, il malvagio Pop Corn), protagonista nel 1977, di Cocco Bill (con un’avventura ambientata nel Far West intorno al milleottocentosessantaquindici), eroe del 1978, e infine di Cip l’arcipoliziotto con il suo inseparabile Gallina e l’arcinemico Zagar, protagonisti dell’ultimo Diario Vitt pubblicato, quello del 1979. Insomma, un diluvio di trovate, un turbinio di invenzioni, un fuoco d’artificio di salami, lische di pesce e altre jacovittate!
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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,
