''Lo Scolaro'' ("The Schoolboy") was a weekly magazine dedicated to school children and published from 1912 to 1972. The magazine was headquartered in
Genoa
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, Italy.
History and profile
The magazine was founded by G. B. Barletta and started its publications with the name ''Facciamo gli Italiani'' ("Let's do the Italians"), changing its name in ''Lo Scolaro'' in 1915.
It came out weekly during the school year, and fortnightly/monthly during the summer. It was distributed on newsstands and in over three thousand schools.
[Gianni Bono. ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Volume II. Epierre, 2003. pp. 1694–1697.] The magazine alternated topical headings and curiosity columns, short stories and serials, games, articles on school or teaching topics and comics.
Some important Italian cartoonists collaborated to the magazine, including
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'', Rudolp ...
(who here introduced the
Pon Pon character), Franco Aloisi,
Giovan Battista Carpi
Giovan Battista Carpi (; November 16, 1927 – March 8, 1999) was a prolific Italian comics artist, illustrator, and teacher from Genoa.
Carpi worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although ...
, Giulio Chierchini,
Paolo Piffarerio
Paolo Piffarerio (27 August 1924 – 30 June 2015) was an Italian comics artist and animator.
Biography
Born in Recanati, the son of a silversmith and a seamstress, Piffarerio studied at the Brera Academy, where he met Gino Gavioli. In 1953 Gav ...
,
Gallieno Ferri, Guido Zamperoni.
In addition to humorous and adventurous comics, in deference to the educational function of the magazine, there were published numerous comics which adapted famous novels, biographies and historical events.
Given to a sales crisis, in January 1970 the magazine changed name to ''Lo Scolaro D'Europa'' ("The Schoolboy of Europe") and started mainly publishing previously published material, but the new course was short lived and the magazine finally closed in May 1972 after a sixty-year history and more than 1,000 issues published.
See also
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List of magazines published in Italy
In Italy there are many magazines. In the late 1920s there were nearly one hundred literary magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in numbe ...
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