In the strips, grotesque situations happen continuously: an army doctor obsessed with vampires, the ‘Frankenstein Mess’ created by a cook experimenting with God-knows-what ingredients. A transposition of WWII through the eyes of little German soldiers, expressing themselves in a very Italianised German. Sturmtruppen, by Bonvi (Gianfranco Bonvicini) is one of the most hilarious comic strips, movies (1976, sequel in 1982) and TV Cartoons (1981), ever created in Italy. In the TV series that ran from 1988 to 1989, Valentina’s role was played by Demetra Hampton. She is faced with real everyday life problems: anorexia in her youth that made her look like Twiggy, her nightmares, her monsters and her psychoanalysis séances. The photographer, Valentina Rosselli, whose face was inspired by the American actress Louise Brooks, is engaged to an art critic, Philip Rembrant (who really is a superhero named Neutron). Valentina, created by architect Guido Crepax in 1965, is considered to be a very erotic strip. However, there is also ‘Henry the Mole’- a slimy character always looking for a fast buck, and trying to find the best way to cheat on his wife Cesira. Lupo Alberto is now printed in the States with the United Features Syndicate. Sometimes they need each other’s help, sometimes they clobber each other to death.Īll other characters, are of course, farm animals: Krug the bull, Alcide the pig, Lodovico the horse, just to mention a few.

His primary antagonist, a bobtail dog called Moses, stands a perennial guard to the farm. Everything spins around the McKenzie farm, where Alberto has a girlfriend, a chicken named Marta. Lupo Alberto was created in 1974 by the hand of Silver (aka Guido Silvestri). A movie was made starring John Phillip Law in 1968 directed by Mario Bava. Diabolik also rides around in an E-Type Jaguar which has as many gadgets as 007’s Aston Martin. Kant is a gorgeous blonde with aristocratic blood, while police inspector Ginko is Diabolik’s eternal rival. He, and his companion, Eva Kant, use rubber masks and lots of tricks to disguise themselves or to take someone else’s place in order to carry out their criminal acts.

Diabolik is the king of thieves, but a very refined one. Tex Willer is a Texas Ranger who fights, with his three friends, against all sorts of evil… the classic good guy! Little like the Lone Ranger.ĭiabolik (the name says everything), was created in 1962 by the Giussani sisters, who have taken the idea from the book ‘Fantomas’ (1911 by M.

Created in 1948 by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galoppini, is still published today by Sergio Bonelli, Editor. The most famous Italian comic strips is probably Tex Willer. Tex Willer is one of Italy longer lasting comics.

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