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1957 In Comics
Notable events of 1957 in comics. Publications and events January * January 7: ** Mort Walker and Frank Roberge's ''Mrs. Fitz's Flats'' makes its debut. It will run until 1972. ** Belgian cartoonist Pil publishes the first gag of his long-running comic series ''Meneerke Peeters'', which will run until 1983. * ''Four Color Comics'' #762 (Dell Comics) — cover-titled " The Sharkfighters." The 34-page story, by an unknown writer, was penciled and inked by John Buscema. *First issue of the monthly magazine Almanacco di Topolino (Mickey Mouse almanac), edited by Mondadori. February * February 2: André Franquin's ''Gaston Lagaffe'' makes his debut in '' Spirou''. He first appears in its pages without any explanation. After a few weeks Spirou finally asks him who he is, but only finds out his name. Gaston then evolves into its own gag comic, which will run until 1997. * February 4: Mell Lazarus' ''Miss Peach'' makes its debut. It will run until 8 September 2002. *February 10: Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Walker
Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips ''Beetle Bailey'' in 1950 and ''Hi and Lois'' in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips. Early life Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, as the third of four children in the family. His siblings were Peggy W. Harman (1915–2012), Robin Ellis Walker (1918–2013) and Marilou W. White (1927–2021). After a couple of years, his family moved to Amarillo, Texas, and later to Kansas City, Missouri, in late 1927, where his father, Robin Adair Walker (d. 1950), was an architect, while his mother, Carolyn Richards Walker (d. 1970), worked as a newspaper staff illustrator. He was of Scottish, Irish, and English descent. One of his ancestors was a doctor aboard the ''Mayflower''. During his elementary school years, he drew for a student newspaper. He attended Northeast High School (Missouri), Northeast High School, where he was a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the Nieuwe Maas, New Meuse inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse at first and now to the Rhine. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte (river), Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William II, Count of Hainaut, William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the List of urban areas in the European Union, 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest seaport. In 2022, Rotterdam had a population of 655,468 and is home to over 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocco Bill
Cocco Bill is an Italian comics character by Benito Jacovitti. He is the star of a parody Western comic set in hypothetical places in the Far West. He is a hot-tempered gunslinger who drinks chamomile tea. Occasionally mocked for this, Bill responds with violence. Despite these outbursts, Cocco Bill is a good guy, and always helps sheriffs to capture criminals. After Jacovitti's death in 1997 the series was continued by Luca Salvagno. Cocco Bill's horse is called Trottalemme (which literally means "trot slowly"). The animal reasons like humans, smokes cigarettes, drinks tequila and also dreams at night. Style As in most of Jacovitti's comics, the page is full of strange things: all around the place one can find salami (sometimes legged), worms with legs and hats, fish bones (typically close to the artist's signature), as well as horses with only two legs ridden by a man with four legs, and other absurdities. Many of the stories themselves are vignettes, pertaining to a surreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Jacovitti
Benito Jacovitti (; March 19, 1923 – December 3, 1997) was an Italian comics artist. Biography Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Molise. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a railwayman, Benito entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating from Firenze's art institute five years later. Here he received the nickname ''lisca di pesce'' ("fishbone") because of his thin figure, that he would use as his signature during his career. In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine satirical magazine ''Il Brivido'' and, a year later, he began an almost 30 years 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Giorno Dei Ragazzi
''Il Giorno dei Ragazzi'' was a weekly comic supplement magazine of the Italian newspaper '' Il Giorno'', published between 1957 and 1968. History and profile The comic magazine debuted on 28 March 1957. It was originally intended as the Italian version of the British children's periodical ''Eagle'', of which it published several series such as '' Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'', ''Storm Nelson'' and ' ''Riders of the Range''. It also presented a significant Italian production, mainly of humorous genre, which included Benito Jacovitti's '' Cocco Bill'', ''Gionni Galassia'' and ''Tom Ficcanaso'', Bruno Bozzetto's comic versions of '' West and Soda'' and ''VIP my Brother Superman'', Giovanni Manca's ''Pier Cloruro de' Lambicchi'', ''Poldo e Poldino'' by Andrea Lavezzolo and Giuseppe Perego, ''I Naufraghi'' by Pier Carpi and Sergio Zaniboni.Gianni Bono. (2003). "Il Giorno dei Ragazzi". ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Epierre. pp. 936-9. In the late 1966 the contract with ''Eagl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartarin Of Tarascon
''Tartarin of Tarascon'' () is an 1872 in literature, 1872 novel written by the French author Alphonse Daudet. Synopsis The Provençal town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives anywhere near it, and its inhabitants resort to telling hunting stories and throwing their own caps in the air to shoot at them. Tartarin, a plump middle-aged man, is the chief "cap-hunter", but following his enthusiastic reaction to seeing an Atlas lion in a travelling menagerie, the over-imaginative town understands him to be planning a hunting expedition to Algeria. So as not to lose face, Tartarin is forced to go, after gathering an absurd mass of equipment and weapons. On the boat from Marseille to Algiers, he hooks up with a conman posing as a Montenegro, Montenegrin prince who takes advantage of him in multiple ways. Tartarin's gullibility causes him a number of misadventures until he returns home penniless but covered in glory after shooting a tame, blind lion. A sequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' () is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos (character), Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. ''The Three Musketeers'' is primar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serial (literature), serials, including ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', ''The Three Musketeers'', ''Twenty Years After'' and ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later''. Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine essay, articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Bottaro
Luciano Bottaro (16 November 1931 – 25 November 2006) was an Italian comic book artist. He was influenced by Otto Messmer's ''Felix the Cat'', Winsor McCay's '' Little Nemo in Slumberland'', Frederick Burr Opper's '' Happy Hooligan'', Rudolph Dirks's ''the Katzenjammer Kids'', and Barks and Gottfredson's Disney adaptations. Biography Born in Rapallo, he abandoned his accounting studies for cartooning in 1949. That year, he began his career for '' Lo Scolaro'', an Italian magazine, with the character Aroldo il bucaniere. He worked for ''La Domenica del Corriere'', Edizioni Alpe and Mondadori, the Italian Disney comics publisher: his first story was " Paperino e le onorificenze" written by Alberto Testa and published in 1952. In the same year he began to collaborate with Guido Scala and Franco Aloisi. They were subsequently joined by Carlo Chendi. Unofficially they were called "Rapallo's School", before the birth of the "Bierrecì Studios". Bierrecì Studios Besi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Martina
Guido Martina (9 February 1906 – 6 May 1991) was an Italian comic writer, documentarist and author. Martina is well known for his Disney comics stories, including the first of the "" story "L'inferno di Topolino", and the creation of Paperinik, Donald Duck's superhero alter ego. Life and career Born in Carmagnola, at 16 years old Martina moved with his family to Turin, where he graduated in literature and philosophy because of the insistence of his father, while he would have preferred to study engineering.Alberto Gedda (11 May 1991). "Guido Martina, Quel Disney Made in Italy". '' La Stampa''. After brief experiences as teacher and journalist for '' Il Popolo d'Italia'', he realized several documentaries as director and screenwriter, moving to live and work in Paris for five years.Alberto Gedda (5 December 1987). "Così inventai Paperinik". ''La Stampa''.Gianni Brunoro. "Martina, Guido". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. p.534. Returned to Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Monte Cristo
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' () is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, and published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844) and '' Man in the Iron Mask'' (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of both French and world literature. The narrative takes place in France, Italy and islands in the Mediterranean Sea during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe I. It begins on the day when Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period of his return to power. The historical setting is fundamental to the narrative. ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' explores themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness. Before he can marry his fian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Duck
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. Donald is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit, sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known for his Donald Duck talk, semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous, temperamental, and pompous personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald was included in ''TV Guide''s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002, and has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character. Donald Duck appeared in comedic roles in animated cartoons. Donald's first appearance was in ''The Wise Little Hen'' (1934), but it was his second appearance in ''Orphan's Benefit'' that same year that introduced him as a temperamental comic Foil (narrative), foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the next two decades, Donald appeared in over 150 theatrical fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
