Thursday, March 10, 2011

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Letter 1991

The month of May 1991, then scored for fans zagoriani - and of course for myself - an important moment: Zagor was given to new writers. And just as new artists were coming to the aid of those who were already working on the series.

But for me, that month was "Zagor" important for two reasons ...

The first was the release in the series All Zagor, the episode "The Strange Mister Smith."

That was a big thrill for me: I found myself in the hands of the register with which the reprint exactly twenty years earlier (month, not months) I started my collection and it was my passion for this wonderful character!

The second reason was that my joy was so great that, to celebrate this anniversary of my own, I decided to write a letter to Sergio Bonelli Zagor to thank him for having created and all the beautiful stories he had written in addition, let me give you three suggestions:
1) to return as soon as the Baron Bela Rakosi, who I thought was - after Hellingen - the real nemesis of the Spirit with the Hatchet;
2) not too general to address topics on the page of the series Post All Zagor, but to speak in detail as it was meant a certain adventure, the psychology of the characters, and "misadventures" editorial related to a particular story;
3) to organize something special to worthily celebrate the 30th anniversary of the character.

Unfortunately, I waited in vain to look to see the content of my letter in the mail All Zagor ... Patience ... For me the important thing was writing it and hope Sergio Bonelli had read ...

Meanwhile, on the page's email Necklace Zenith, in the year 1991 appeared more news on new writers and illustrators of the Spirit with the Hatchet ...

In No 312, July, Bonelli Mauro Boselli presented in detail, describing it as a "spin doctors" specializing in the drafting of different headings, and many small book attached to the special, an avid traveler in inaccessible areas and wild and, finally, a great writer who, After ranged in various series of the publishing house, had landed to Zagora.

In No 313, August, Bonelli presented Ade Capone dwell in telling the amusing circumstances of their first meeting at the edge of a swimming pool ...

In No 314, September, was presented Alessandro Russo, entered the ranks of writers zagoriani through the good auspices of Antonio Serra (co-creator of Nathan Never) and the "new" designer Renato Polese, one of the columns of ' unforgotten History West Gino D'Antonio (curiously, the two authors share in this presentation, they were united by the fact that they did very little about Zagor: the first drama series, only three stories and drew up the second only one.)

Finally, in the mail the next No 315 Sergio Bonelli - after speaking of the now "infamous" (at least among fans zagoriani) Dark Zagor - decided to silence the voices that were turned on the abandonment of the series by Marcello Toninelli . Bonelli wrote that was not raised Toninelli from office or discharged, but had gone to his will! If it was true that "the same presented a radical proposal for a complete change of character of Zagor " judged negatively by the publishing house, was also true that Toninelli had gone " also because he had other interests and other initiatives in the field comics. "
Bonelli concluded, then, clear that the intention of the managers and supervisors of the series was to "Zagor return to the glories of the period Nolitta ...
The slogan was: "To renew Zagor, back to the roots! .

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Even after noticing that the back cover of the register in June 1990, the cover of No 300 (all in color) reproducing the same design Ferri Gallienus that a few months earlier had been reported on the cover of the test Special Zagor Collecting I had a premonition ... It was as if the interest shown by Zagor in that essay by its authors had somehow instilled in the series ...

fact, No mail in the page 300, July 1990 Sergio Bonelli blatantly contradicted (and, we can say, fortunately for zagoriani) and himself, as if to retraction of what he had said in the interview of the Special Collecting Zagor, defined Zagor " still a hero form and perky, followed by many supporters "and declared that he would do everything possible to make sure" a future as bright of its past and its present . To accomplish this, written at the urging of a fan named Marco Verni da Forli (today - as you all know - has become one of the designers zagoriani trait shod ), promised that he made a series of brainstorming with the editors ...

short, something in the world Zagoria was moving players and we began to hope for a brighter future for our hero ...


Six months later, in the mail No 306, January 1991, wrote that Sergio Bonelli Toninelli Marcello, who for years had picked up the heavy burden of inheritance nolittiana writing numerous stories of Zagor, had decided to take a vacation from the character ...


In No Mail 307, Bonelli wrote that his attention and that of his colleagues had focused on the choice of new writers and the possibility of future transfers of the Spirit with the Hatchet ... Then, in the mail No 308, revealed that the head of Zagor continued to go well enough to be the third in order of sales, the publications of the publisher. The outcome of those
brainstorming was the creation of a new writing staff, which finally revealed the names: Ade Capone (who had already, in the past, some stories zagoriani), Alessandro Russo , Mauro Boselli and MORENO PUPPETS!
"This know him " I said to myself when I read his name. It was the very man who had written in special collection, the essay on the life of Zagor stimulating as I had read a novel! "So we're really in good hands", I thought. The name of Moreno Burattini was for me a guarantee, as well as the fact that he had more or less my age and thought it was "grown up" with the same stories that made me fall in love with the character ...


In
No 310, May 1991 I could read, at last, the first script created by Zagor Moreno Burattini who bore the title "Cico heartthrob" and opened with a long and hilarious gags Cico, just like old times ...


not alone. In Journal of Sergio Bonelli Editore of that number were contained in two pages devoted to the new Special Cico ( Cico Trapper ), also written by Moreno Burattini (which was called the "promise ") and the new Special Zagor ( The black flame ) whose author was another newcomer: Mauro Boselli (Bonelli called " one of my harshest critics for the adventures of Zagor ).


A new era was beginning for the Spirit with the dark!

Friday, March 4, 2011

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Quote!

Today is my birthday and read e-dawn Zagor on newsstands these days I have received beautiful and unexpected "gift" ...
I am moved and happy ... I have no words ... I can only say: "Thank , Moreno! "

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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In March 1988 I obtained a law degree or even a month after I began the practice in the office of a lawyer in Monza.
therefore, unable to receive any referral for reasons of study, and being a young man of Italian nationality and good health, from 1 May 1989 to April 30, 1990 I paid the compulsory military service in arming 's Aeronautics.

Since I was also in 1985 was elected City Councilman in my town, after the first month of attendance of the RASFF (Air Force Recruit Training School) in Macerata, on the approach beneficiai and the rest of the period I served in the military headquarters of a Piazza Novelli, in Milan. There I was assigned supervisory duties, so was doing such a service with these shifts: 24/24/24/48. Ie: on call 24 hours, followed by 24 hours of rest, followed by on-call 24 hours followed by 48 hours of rest. And so on ...
This gave me a way not only to continue practicing, to visit and learn more about the city of Milan ... and diligently to attend the comics!
In the spring of 1990, in one of these comics (namely The Stock Exchange of Comics ) I found a text that was a discovery for me, absolute: the SPECIAL ZAGOR Collecting Collector's Club!

A beautiful text, all dedicated to my favorite hero and edited by three (for me at that time) "famous" unknown: Moreno Burattini , Alessandro Monti Francesco Manetti. It did not seem real to be holding in your hands a book of 192 pages and contains over 200 illustrations that dealt exclusively Zagor!

Introduced by a series of essays entitled The inimitable imitator, Zagor's story, a hero Identikit , Cherchez la femme and Cico, the book continues with a series of interesting interviews with Sergio Bonelli , and Marcello Ferri Gallienus Toninelli , with a portion dedicated to Authors Zagor, one dedicated to Timelines ( that for the first time allowed me to "discover" who were the screenwriters of all those books which were published without credit ), a series of Curiosity about the series that could not be found elsewhere, and ended with a section dedicated to characters in the saga.
short, was the most passionate era Zagoria could desire!

This book rekindled in me the sacred fire Zagoria, dormant for some time due to a number of screenplays in my opinion too repetitive and without any particular "flashes of creativity (though some - few - interesting stories ). My negative impression, among other things, alas, found its confirmation in an interview with Sergio Bonelli cited above, where he declared: "The character , already a bit weak 'for its part, has had its day. More than this is not can give, is a hero out like many others, the rest .
This bitter statement did not leave much hope for the future of Zagor ... Fortunately, in the years following the facts blatantly contradicted Sergio Bonelli!

Today, this volume makes its beautiful display in my library, complete with a signed dedication by one of its authors that in a not too distant future he would become one of the architects of the "renaissance" Zagora: Moreno Burattini !

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Pisum alatum

Let another digression from the edge of the memories held so far, but what I'm about to tell is for me a little satisfaction ...

for a couple of years now, I'm re-reading the stories of Zagor with my daughter Beatrice (6 years last November). To date we have read almost all production of Zagor Guido Nolitta / Sergio Bonelli, Beatrice, as befits his age, has a particular fondness for our Mexican belly, so we stopped reading the stories of the main series to devote Special to Cico.

The other day we were reading the beginning of the dawn "Cico explorer", which returns to the prof. Lookford and reminded about the adventure Little Africa on the Pisum alatum.



Beatrice Then, remembering she dell'insettino roly-poly and adventure that had seen him as co-star, made me stop reading and wanted to go and draw ...
This is the result:


As a father and as Zagoria, I must say that for me it was a great satisfaction ... and I thought it was nice to share that!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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What will remain of those 80 ... Questions

We stayed at the turn of the year 1981/82 ...

From here on in my memories zagoriani are more dilated in time.

Also because my interests were directed elsewhere: I had enrolled in the Faculty of Law, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano (That I dealt with - as you can imagine - a long time) and my passion for fantasy literature was growing, and now that I started to write tales of sword and sorcery inspired by those of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard and his followers. This interest led me to my last go to the world of fanzines of that genre and found its natural outlet to nell'affiliazione City Club of Milan, club fans of science fiction / fantasy / horror, with the shareholders to whom also attended the Convention of Italian science fiction (OrwellCon) which was held in 1984 in Montegrotto Terme (PD).

Anyway, back to Zagora, my memories of those 80 are, again, depend on certain books of Zagor. For example ...

The first adventure written by Toninelli ( A weird outlaw ) and I appreciated that I read during my summer holiday to Madesimo in 1982 as a guest of the Hotel-Crystal Falls, where the same at the time housed the poet Carducci .
The arrival of a new villain it fits perfectly The ambush of the Mutant , a comic that I recovered some time later in a kiosk in the railway station of Milano-Porta Garibaldi since its release in August 1983, I was in the mountains, the Locca Bezzecca, in Trentino, a guest of my friend Ariel , where comic books do not arrive. The roll
Timber Bill , Which I bought from a kiosk station Cadorna Milan subway and had (the only case in the regular series), the glossy cover.

adventure titled The Duel to the great lakes, which I read aloud to my grandson Andrew of six years, among charmed by scortro Zagor and a giant bear depicted on the cover. The roll
Devils blacks (with the infamous return Supermike !!!), I bought in August 1984 in Rome, always a guest of my friend Ariel (this time at home the father). The return of Olaf
Botegosky in Zagor against Zagor, in April 1985 ...

But what made me really happy, zagoriani speaking, the news was the exit of the revised reprint called TuttoZagor ! Again I remember perfectly that no I bought a aedicule not far from my university ... Another memory I have of those years, always inherent in this new reissue is that it lent the numbers 1 to 13 in a seminar that was was sent in my town to help manage the oratory and found to be a "nostalgic Zagoria" became friends and he liked to read a lot of those early episodes ... When he became a priest in 1988, among other things I gave him a copy of the first Special Zagor, released in June of that year ...

Another pleasant surprise was the inclusion, since the June 1987 ( The murderess stone ) of the page mail in the new series of Zagor ... Finally, readers could find an "outlet" to their requests and questions that are answered in the legendary Sergio Bonelli! Just as I appreciated very much Journal Sergio Bonelli, the supplement in full color illustrating the characters and the books out of the publishing house, whose first issue was included in annexed to the register in June 1988 ...


And so the '80s came to an end. ..

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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I searched for days but there was nothing to do ... I just can not find it ...

; The registers of Zagor I reserve a double surprise with the reading of No 187 ( The Return of the Vampire), to whom I mentioned in my previous post.
I had been invited to return to my first love comic after years away, and I found myself not only a fascinating story to read together drawings by Ferri Gallienus a high level, but it also seemed that fortune had decided to reward my "backfire" on the cover of No 187, in fact, stood out this message:
"If you meet these QUESTIONS will receive an ZAGOR KEY HOLDER."
Once again, the publisher had felt the need to gauge public opinion to try to improve their "product" and so, after almost ten years after the first investigation , addressed directly to readers have their opinion "on certain issues ," read the message, " that interest us much. "

This second referendum, compared to the first, had a greater number of questions (6 instead of 4) and its formulation is more complex and engaging .
The questions focused on the best stories, what was worse, the adventures of the supporting actors on other series of the publishing house on new series that would see the light and, finally, on advertising.
But the truly extraordinary event was this: to all those who have answered the questions would be sent , a choice of Zagor a keychain or a Tex or one of Mister No!
Unlike the first referendum, I have no written record of the answers I gave, but even in this case, cherish the memories sharp enough ...
You must keep in mind that the first two applications were for the last five years of publications Ed ... I did not read the series now for two years! Could, therefore, refer only to the years '76 / '78 ... Me also the quarry, with some small cars trick ...
For example, in response to the question of the best books, I remember that, next to the magician Kandrax and Tigre! , I indicated that I was reading the story at this time ( The Return of the Vampire), although it was not published until mid-adventure, but what can you do, the first two stories of Zagor against Rakosi Bela are among my favorites! !


In response to the question of the worst books, next to Fortress Smirnoff and The mysterious knight , also pointed The Pride of China, for the simple fact that it was the story with which I had broken my collection ...


So, my opinions on the stories, for better or for worse, were not just "objective"!

On the third question, I do not remember all the characters I laid between them ... But certainly there were the Vampire ( off course), Hellingen , Trampy and Bat Batterton .




When asked about the other heroes of the publishing house, said Tex which preferred and which Little Ranger character for me at that time totally charmless ...


Among the new kinds of preferences, hypothetical series that the publisher had in mind to launch, I indicated the western and fantasy .
Finally, as to whether or affixed on my reply was simply: yes! Compiled
my beautiful set of answers and clearly indicate that the key ring I wanted was to Zagor, all in a sealed envelope and sent it to the address on the bottom of the back cover, namely: DAIM PRESS Via Buonarroti 38, 20145 Milano .
And, as had happened nine years earlier with the Indian Circus register , I waited ...

Within a few weeks, a Saturday morning, I found in the mailbox of a small color brown envelope which contained "Daim Press" as an indication of the sender, was a bag of those packed with cellophane and closing pre-glued ... I went running up the six flights of stairs that separated me from my apartment and once at home I opened the envelope ... that was desperately EMPTY!
You can imagine my disappointment! I could not think that the publisher might have failed to insert the key ... the reason for the empty envelope could only be one: someone post office (or whomever else) had stolen the content!
After I racked my brains on how to remedy this small tragedy, "I saw no other solution than to take my portable typewriter Antares and throw down a letter, addressed to the publisher, explaining what had happened ... naturally hope that this would somehow resolve the issue. In fact I had not even dared to think that I was sent to ask for another key, fearing that someone might suspect that the mine was a lie, intended to have only a Keychain Instead ... more ...
But after a few weeks here that I was delivered an envelope similar to the previous, but this time containing the coveted key ring!
The first thing I did was to replace the car key in the Family (a Fiat 127 ) with that of Zagor just received, and since then, for thirteen years (until 1994 when I replaced it with one taken in my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, depicting the Cross of Jerusalem, which I still use today) so I used it.
course, although he was now worn out and had lost nearly all the "lacquer" blue, the jealously kept it in the drawer of my bedside table.

Now some of you will wonder why someone who likes to call "photojournalists Zagoria" has not yet posted a photograph of this keychain ...
legitimate question and the answer ... is italicized in the sentence that I put on top of this post ...
After my marriage, the key was in my parents' house and when (after death) freed the apartment, I put together with many other things ended up in the garage and the attic of my current home.
But when I wanted to "exhume" to photograph it and post it in the blog ... I searched for days but there was nothing to do ... I just can not find it!
Patience ... It is certainly not lost and I am convinced that someday, when I least I'll wait, my keychain Zagor will jump out of some dusty box and tell me: "Here I am."