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vaillant:
And now I have a Craveri avatar. ;)
It’s "Porcellino" (Piggy) from the Zoo family. :)
Yoc:
Cute avatar V
:)
paw broon:
All that about beautiful/striking female characters set me thinking, oddly enough, and I want to add, Eva Kant, Diabolik's classy, beautiful, and sometimes deadly, partner.
One your never likely to see and a lady detective I like - Lesley Shane. Her adventures appeared in Super Detective Library and here's a cover:-
http://www.bookpalace.com/PicLibs/SDPL/PAGES/SDL092.HTM
How could I have not mentioned Diana Palmer as drawn by Ray Moore or Wilson McCoy or Sy Barry.
JVJ (RIP):
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You’d love Jacovitti. Seriously. It may be that something has been published in Germany, but I assure you that Jacovitti’s scope of work as a whole is something amazing.
It would be great to arrive, at some point, to present something of Jacovitti in English language. I’d love to work on that. There are others, of course, but Jacovitti was already amazing slight afterwards the War.
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I'll second the recommendation of Jacovitti, Tillmann, and suggest also Mordillo - another Italian master, IMHO.
Have you finalized your Paris trip? I'll show you a big book of Mordillo when you get here.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
vaillant:
--- Quote ---I'll second the recommendation of Jacovitti, Tillmann, and suggest also Mordillo - another Italian master, IMHO.
Have you finalized your Paris trip? I'll show you a big book of Mordillo when you get here.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Coming from you, JVJ, this is a "senior recommendation". ;)
Well, Mordillo is more a humorist, I would classify him with Gary Larson (his surreal humour in "The Far Side") rather than with a true storyteller as Jacovitti has been.
Have you ever read some 1940s Jacovitti? It’s my favorite, up to 1948. His first story, "Pippo e gli inglesi" was a satire against the British army, and written and drawn when he was 16. Almost unrecognizable by someone accustomed to his 1960-70s mature style, but the characters (a "kid gang", as I said previously) had a freshness which was absent as his mature style had crystallized.
Cover of the first reprint in comic-book form, courtesy of Vintage Comics forum users (original story run on "Il Vittorioso" in 1941):
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