Nonna Abelarda (literally Grandma Abelarda) is a comic fictional character created by

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 ...

. Abelarda first appeared in 1955, as a side character in the ''Volpetto'' comic strips; from 1957 to 1991 she also was the main focus of the comic book series ''Soldino'', in the role of nurse and bodyguard of the title character. Over the years she had similar roles in other less successful comic books published by Edizioni Bianconi such as ''Bongo'' and '' Provolino'', and was leading character of an eponym comic book, ''Nonna Abelarda'', published between 1971 and 1974. The comics were also successfully published in France, where Nonna Abelarda was named Tartine Mariol in reference to French actress

Martine Carol Martine Carol (born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer; 16 May 1920 – 6 February 1967) was a French film actress. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was the leading sex symbol and ...

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Italian comics titles Italian comics characters Comics characters introduced in 1955 1955 comics debuts 1991 comics endings Humor comics Fictional bodyguards Fictional nurses Fictional Italian people Comics about women Female characters in comics Works about old age {{Italy-comics-stub