tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304564792024-03-07T21:07:56.681+01:00Down the GutsGianmaria Caschetto's blogGianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-26156265705891461752023-05-26T13:54:00.007+02:002023-05-26T15:44:01.018+02:00Uncle Shin (sorry, this post è in Italiano)<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Tempo fa</span> ho pubblicato su questo blog alcuni schizzi raffiguranti vecchietti decrepiti dall'aria sinistra.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Erano una specie di riscaldamento per una breve storia che prima o poi conto di disegnare: un racconto</span><span> </span><span>nello stile dei vecchi fumetti della<b> EC</b>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6u3Qo20vCEVlpR1Ha_JSe5ab6z1Ir0O8yW-973usM_odoG24p2VL-zzewlJX8mDzbLz9qn5MzzOB53Tyc75fr2EnFEMZA7XtEB-SrI1aYxXoen7XEOWGj723IOhxi38-5NUkFbgnCadw-JC3hQBUTYxDoYlTfH7ApZv9k9t4xPdp6SJ6XbA/s1600/1622200764470408-0.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6u3Qo20vCEVlpR1Ha_JSe5ab6z1Ir0O8yW-973usM_odoG24p2VL-zzewlJX8mDzbLz9qn5MzzOB53Tyc75fr2EnFEMZA7XtEB-SrI1aYxXoen7XEOWGj723IOhxi38-5NUkFbgnCadw-JC3hQBUTYxDoYlTfH7ApZv9k9t4xPdp6SJ6XbA/w384-h640/1622200764470408-0.png" width="384" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Una storia del genere richiede che si utilizzi il buon vecchio 'Zio Tibia'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ho ricercato informazioni su questo personaggio, nel tentativo di capire che origine ha avuto, ed ho così scoperto di aver sempre avuto le idee confuse circa la sua identità.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A mia discolpa posso dire </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">che questa confusione non è dovuta alla mia pessima memoria, bensì alla strana vita editoriale, cinematografica e televisiva che Zio Tibia ha avuto in Italia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Origini</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Per chi non conoscesse la EC: è l'acronimo di <i>Educational Comics</i> e successivamente di <i>Entertaining Comics</i>, quando la missione "educativa" della casa editrice lasciò definitivamente il posto ad una diversa ragione sociale</span>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Nel gennaio del 1950 questo editore americano ha lanciato sul mercato </span></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Crypt of Terror</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> e</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Vault of Horror</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, due serie antologiche che presentavano ad ogni numero una manciata di brevi storie del terrore.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixfK4VnrFxxcU_bO9NQsSwZs8T1dNHVOdGBOL5E5IvmkXPSNvVekM2SUeGzeaQJppCxgVTR0M5coDz4CTsUfueV0c9sOQknoalvradUsp10pPKbcVLh370owsTC64q3SvI0bsqtirX-vMkoXuyyA2jypTQbTeJGo3HNXMsenLp4XN6X0qBaA/s2329/Crypt_of_Terror_Vol_1_17.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2329" data-original-width="1651" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixfK4VnrFxxcU_bO9NQsSwZs8T1dNHVOdGBOL5E5IvmkXPSNvVekM2SUeGzeaQJppCxgVTR0M5coDz4CTsUfueV0c9sOQknoalvradUsp10pPKbcVLh370owsTC64q3SvI0bsqtirX-vMkoXuyyA2jypTQbTeJGo3HNXMsenLp4XN6X0qBaA/s320/Crypt_of_Terror_Vol_1_17.webp" width="227" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjea950W_t_L8PACKo7h_0HmK0sC24Fzebw9CrV3IhpwSX9-q7kLaooI2U-WUxCKOo-RjTYX9JTEeOHH18v5UvakWK7U0cpz7xnoFseOPz1RcRxCtEKB6u5jjD4n98p9pEMDBnpw6YtvxkmjxnWHAA4_14qdSEpFLWmYaZY4VgLBBF2ELyxjA/s600/tvoh12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjea950W_t_L8PACKo7h_0HmK0sC24Fzebw9CrV3IhpwSX9-q7kLaooI2U-WUxCKOo-RjTYX9JTEeOHH18v5UvakWK7U0cpz7xnoFseOPz1RcRxCtEKB6u5jjD4n98p9pEMDBnpw6YtvxkmjxnWHAA4_14qdSEpFLWmYaZY4VgLBBF2ELyxjA/s320/tvoh12.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>I racconti erano a sé stanti, senza alcuna continuity (i fumetti Marvel di Lee/Kirby/Ditko & C. erano ancora al di là da venire) e non formavano una mitologia coerente. Unici <i>trait d'union</i> tra i racconti erano i </span><span>grotteschi </span><span>personaggi che comparivano n</span><span>ella prima e nell'ultima vignetta: <b>the Crypt Keeper</b> (il guardiano della cripta), <b>the Old Witch</b> (la vecchia strega) e <b>the Vault Keeper</b> (il guardiano dei sotterranei) che introducevano e commentavano, non senza sarcasmo o ironia, le vicende illustrate.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7abePzor24HCVKZl-IREl80OmTrgY_N4HUPB_pJJO8HLUKjNN30gUdrmba34c-IqEoLWhczNYLqDQ34zmLmnas8aCcX2-_8eh4x3KZUsq1dnPbcG5ffTInF7Z0buLNHA1BnfM2VzaKg8lPNb2iI3o5_sQLm2tbYV8LAdwrEqnpmDsU6Jvg/s474/keeper1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7abePzor24HCVKZl-IREl80OmTrgY_N4HUPB_pJJO8HLUKjNN30gUdrmba34c-IqEoLWhczNYLqDQ34zmLmnas8aCcX2-_8eh4x3KZUsq1dnPbcG5ffTInF7Z0buLNHA1BnfM2VzaKg8lPNb2iI3o5_sQLm2tbYV8LAdwrEqnpmDsU6Jvg/s320/keeper1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 1</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The Crypt of Terror</i> cambiò in seguito il proprio nome in<i><b> Tales From The Crypt </b></i>e con questo titolo resterà conosciuta e, come vedremo, onorata (l'esatto numero del cambio di testata non riesco a stabilirlo senza accesso agli albi originali degli anni '50)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Incoraggiato dal successo di queste antologie, <b>Bill Gaines</b>, editore capo, aggiunse nuovi titoli al proprio piano editoriale, come <i>The Haunt of Fear</i> e a</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ltre pubblicazioni sullo stesso modello, ma dedicate ad altri generi come la guerra, il crimine o la fantascienza (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Two-Fisted Tales</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Crime SuspenStories, </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Weird Science</i>) senza contare quella che poi sarebbe diventata una rivista di culto: <i><b>MAD</b></i> - inizialmente chiamata </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> nello stile esuberante del suo ideatore <b>Harvey Kurtzman</b>.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>L'insieme di talenti che Bill Gaines fu in grado di riunire fece di queste testate dei veri e propri gioielli editoriali, seppure sotto la guisa di luridi giornaletti di nessun valore; </span>oltre al già citato Kurtzman basti aggiungere Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Johnny Craig o Joe Orlando).</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(nota: queste pubblicazioni all'epoca non approdarono mai in Italia, a conoscerle erano sopratutto amanti e storici del fumetto o conoscitori della cultura pop americana. Le prime traduzioni di queste serie sono apparse nel 1990 per le edizioni B.S.D. che però chiuse la collana dopo poche uscite.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I narratori</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Non racconterò qui delle fortune e sfortune editoriali della EC (il clima censorio della metà degli anni '50 si tradusse nella chiusura forzata di quasi tutti i titoli delle EC, con l'esclusione dell'umoristico MAD) quello di cui voglio scrivere è la particolarità dell'uso dei "narratori" o anfitrioni in queste storie.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Scusate se la prendo da lontano. Il fatto è che da sempre noi esseri umani amiamo raccontare storie, o farcele raccontare, attorno al fuoco o illuminati dalla luce bluastra della tv in salotto; ancora di più amiamo quando queste storie ci spaventano.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo facciamo da così tanto tempo che oramai certi elementi del "racconto di paura", così come certe tecniche retoriche, si sono cristallizzati e codificati.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Alcuni esempi?</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">presentare la storia come realmente accaduta</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">arrivare a una conclusione sorprendente e inattesa</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>la presenza di una lezione morale, spesso esemplificata da un crudele </span><span>contrappasso che attende per i protagonisti meno virtuosi</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">la presenza di un narratore o anfitrione (si vedano ad esempio televisive come <i>Ai Confini della Realtà</i>, <i>Thriller </i>o il programma di <b>Vampira</b>). </span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Creepy, Eerie e l'editore Warren</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Per circa un decennio la fortunata formula di <i>Tales from the Crypt</i> (storie brevi e sorprendenti realizzate dalla <i>crème</i> degli autori di fumetti dell'epoca) non fu replicata.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Il mercato dei comic book nord-americano stava vivendo una trasformazione notevole. Uno dopo l'altro i vari generi come il fumetto rosa, western o di guerra, perdevano popolarità mentre la DC e sopratutto la Marvel fecero rinascere il genere supereroistico con vendite sempre più massicce.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tuttavia, la crescente egemonia di questo genere finì per lasciare un vuoto per quegli amanti dei fumetti che poco si curavano di avventurieri in calzamaglia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span><span>Ci pensò l'editore Warren con la sua rivista <i><b>Creepy </b></i>a raccogliere il testimone di <i>Tales from the Crypt</i>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3QdC18N-d77uufvIVTqDHNf3DMSsoCjn5Df_3fMjOU7DI-RRFIF66yNDu3jCi7MJEAjcukqDFjJBdOIFEL2eILDY2L2G1ojqItBhr_BbPZHWEbQHSRtyupg7KYKuWstpBJ79jkcF27MGRzEafxUUuJWRmuT0qPk_BuIxDAcnML2AClOCLg/s1600/c1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3QdC18N-d77uufvIVTqDHNf3DMSsoCjn5Df_3fMjOU7DI-RRFIF66yNDu3jCi7MJEAjcukqDFjJBdOIFEL2eILDY2L2G1ojqItBhr_BbPZHWEbQHSRtyupg7KYKuWstpBJ79jkcF27MGRzEafxUUuJWRmuT0qPk_BuIxDAcnML2AClOCLg/w480-h613/c1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Redatta da Russ Jones e successivamente, per un lungo e fortunato periodo, da Archie Goodwin, <i>Creepy</i> nacque nel 1964, sfoggiando in copertina il proprio "parsonaggio narrante", vera e propria mascotte della rivista: <b>Uncle Creepy </b></span><span>(solo io sento un'assonanza tra Uncle Creepy e Crypt Keeper?)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNp8Y8vBnSIIXxSKmWzL0xmzXR4XzCFq4HeJ-rQXMVMzjQsUQbLu5dARVIPeyY7dg5Q9CPx2T0u-8mZv62hyap9vjy_N4uM6Lh2tNy2k-ubKsE9qARz2b-mQEMMu2lcwQewCVHXSZGYO1GRXe01ihjbajAuR1z3cmmHduQNxzdzrgmwEeKQ/s960/uc1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="551" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNp8Y8vBnSIIXxSKmWzL0xmzXR4XzCFq4HeJ-rQXMVMzjQsUQbLu5dARVIPeyY7dg5Q9CPx2T0u-8mZv62hyap9vjy_N4uM6Lh2tNy2k-ubKsE9qARz2b-mQEMMu2lcwQewCVHXSZGYO1GRXe01ihjbajAuR1z3cmmHduQNxzdzrgmwEeKQ/w368-h640/uc1.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 2</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Nel 1965 Warren affianca a <i>Creepy </i>una rivista gemella: <i><b>Eerie</b></i> dove a</span><span> fare da cerimoniere questa volta è un nuovo personaggio, <b>Cousin Eerie</b> (nome non particolarmente fantasioso, devo ammettere).</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWTEChcoa97aXSFfkgQ9KEIuVfC4W2MiQsog2HApYij8N_7wbNlslk7Z20Vq-PGAEpj3057bJjhdtKnKj11m_79Pn3qNL9tPNpTub-PeNf2V1X46ZcDeJkgCQL17TuEXFeQdZA4-fyWicJRswdH635tw7gek0eDxx29S72NkQiwxaWY1kLDQ/s930/visionevil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="930" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWTEChcoa97aXSFfkgQ9KEIuVfC4W2MiQsog2HApYij8N_7wbNlslk7Z20Vq-PGAEpj3057bJjhdtKnKj11m_79Pn3qNL9tPNpTub-PeNf2V1X46ZcDeJkgCQL17TuEXFeQdZA4-fyWicJRswdH635tw7gek0eDxx29S72NkQiwxaWY1kLDQ/w640-h204/visionevil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 3</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">L'atteggiamento sardonico e l'aspetto tetro dei personaggi è chiaramente una variazione sui vecchi narratori della EC comics. Si potrebbe chiamare un omaggio. Ma come abbiamo detto, l'uso di un tetro narratore per questo tipo di storie è un vero e proprio cliché consolidato.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dovendo raccontare una storia del terrore, non amiamo anche noi illuminare il nostro viso dal basso e fare una voce gracchiante?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Molti illustri professionisti del mondo del fumetto, come <b>Mark Chiarello</b>, sono convinti che Creepy e Eerie siano state tra le riviste a fumetti di più alto livello mai prodotte, il che </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">non sorprende, visti i nomi degli autori coinvolti: oltre a dei veterani di <i>Tales</i> come </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Davis o Candrall Reed, si trovano giganti come <b>Alex Toth</b>, <b>Al Williamson</b> o <b>Howard Chaykin</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><i>Creepy</i> e <i>Eerie </i>sembrano anche aver coinciso con una crescente popolarità e rilevanza del genere horror al cinema, si pensi alle pellicole della casa di produzione inglese Hammer, o alla nascita dell'horror italiano che conoscerà una vera e propria fioritura creativ</span>a per il decennio seguente.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Così come la cronaca nera e le pubblicazioni scandalistiche, il crimine e l'horror sono sempre stati generi di facile presa, da </span><i>Diabolik </i>fino a<i> Dylan Dog</i>, passando da <i>Satanik</i>, l'horror o le serie 'nere' hanno conosciuto crescenti picchi di popolarità anche in Italia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Forse anche per questo Arnoldo <span>Mondadori (editore 'di libri' che però grazie al disneyano Topolino ha ricoperto un importante ruolo come editore di fumetti) decise di proporre in Italia per primo le storie della Warren.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Il 14 luglio 1969 uscì, per la prestigiosa collana <b>Oscar Mondadori</b>,<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">guidata all'epoca da </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Mario Spagnol</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Le Spiacevoli Notti di Zio Tibia </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(n. 221)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, seguito da </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Zio Tibia Colpisce Ancora</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (n. 305, del 4 luglio 1972) e infine da </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Mezzanotte con Zio Tibia</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (Oscar Mondadori n. 401, del 29 maggio 1974).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWeyxGnO-nWfVWb3OXzzSdSSCP8V00UdAu0720JcXq42XGuZlUiLrafZX-mSZniKe-9Ih_DEbGjA0-dT8edi9m6tWXHVN_STrnEiMYWVZ9IKIYsBG66ZOeJK4TJ7bAclPGjsNqOFfmx9XxPCua6S11EkPwZSZoe-VfI4gutA79MY4UN8XUQ/s671/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="474" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWeyxGnO-nWfVWb3OXzzSdSSCP8V00UdAu0720JcXq42XGuZlUiLrafZX-mSZniKe-9Ih_DEbGjA0-dT8edi9m6tWXHVN_STrnEiMYWVZ9IKIYsBG66ZOeJK4TJ7bAclPGjsNqOFfmx9XxPCua6S11EkPwZSZoe-VfI4gutA79MY4UN8XUQ/w452-h640/OIP.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(quante bestie ha zio tibia -ia -ia -o)</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>La traduzione del primo volume fu a cura di <b>Lydia Lax</b>, a cui, in assenza di fonti migliori, devo attribuire l'indovinata traduzione di Uncle Creepy in <b>Zio Tibia.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cousin Eerie invece, per restare in tema 'osseo', diventò <b>Astragalo</b>, come l'osso del piede che si trova proprio sotto la tibia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Al momento non so dire se </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">t</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ra gli anni '70 e gli anni '90 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">in Italia, altre storie della Warren possano aver visto luce altrove che nei sopracitati volumi, di cui il primo è stato recentemente ristampato.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sangue a fiotti</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Purtroppo, a perdere sangue tra gli anni '70 e la fine del secolo, più che le vittime degli efferati delitti di carta, fu l'editoria in genere, con una continua emorragia di lettori.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Complice anche un'inflazione galoppante dei costi di stampa, molte iniziative editoriali non sono riuscite a durare molto, nonostante l'Italia fosse e sia tutt'ora un paese dove le tirature fumettistiche restano piuttosto elevate rispetto alla media di altri paesi.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>A proporre le store della Warren ci hanno pensato riviste della </span><span>Max Bunker press, o riviste come <i>L'E</i></span><span><i>ternauta</i>, <i>C</i></span><span><i>omic Art</i> o </span><span><i>Horror</i>, almeno finché <i>Eerie </i>e <i>Creepy </i>non hanno chiuso i battenti negli anni '80.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ma se il fumetto (d'orrore o meno) vedeva diminuire la sua popolarità, l'horror come genere era tutt'altro che defunto.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Horror Picture Show</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Penso di non dire una stupidaggine affermando che il principale motore della super-popolarità dell'horror, a partire dagli anni 80, è stato il cinema (</span>e forse i romanzi di <b>Stephen King</b>?)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Non un grande successo, ma doveroso da menzionare in questo contesto, è <i>T</i></span><span><i>ales from the Crypt</i>, un film a episodi che riproponeva abbastanza fedelmente alcune delle </span><span>storie dai vecchi EC. Diretto da </span><b>Freddie Francis </b>(noto anche come spettacolare direttore della fotografia) per la inglese Amicus Production. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anche qui troviamo un 'crypt keeper' (questo il suo nome nei credits), che però non ricorda fisicamente quello dei fumetti e che nel film non si presenta mai come tale.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaF_expIG0bPYCJSePq9naMRVLxaPDstIY6OH5124AEa_1d0VUiyWLLr6XalLbFRXgPWdbkMxtx3oeQX_I81N-KjhJftbIYyD3YP4Zpq6mMOPtD7PFSJqY4v9CwpI8oRWyzbTQuFdMxPWMJV9sf2ULQgBRarJUSRJMDgG3W5yp9ZM_mRI2Q/s656/tales-from-the-crypt-crypt-keeper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="656" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaF_expIG0bPYCJSePq9naMRVLxaPDstIY6OH5124AEa_1d0VUiyWLLr6XalLbFRXgPWdbkMxtx3oeQX_I81N-KjhJftbIYyD3YP4Zpq6mMOPtD7PFSJqY4v9CwpI8oRWyzbTQuFdMxPWMJV9sf2ULQgBRarJUSRJMDgG3W5yp9ZM_mRI2Q/w640-h344/tales-from-the-crypt-crypt-keeper.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 4 (risparmiamo sul make-up)</span></h3><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Le cose cominciano a confondersi quando due numi tutelari dell'ascesa dell'horror ci mettono lo zampino: nientepopodimeno che Stephen King e <b>George Romero</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>I due infatti </span><span>uniscono le forze nel 1982 per produrre <i>Creepshow</i>, un film antologico nella stessa vena di <i>Tales from the Crypt</i> e dichiaratissimo omaggio ai fumetti EC.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anche in questo film non si rinuncia a un dispositivo-cornice a fare da collante tra i diversi episodi del film e anche qui incontriamo un narratore: <b>The Creep</b>, che compare dapprima sotto forma di pupazzo (a dire il vero assai poco mobile) per poi trasformarsi in un cartone animato.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1224" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRZxoZWOw_e_0DGpuoiuyTAoqHlOQMuHM8PEywgEIJGsmxbUAmO7bbpcUzzflMp0Ybx2VYb5VJ0QJRIbkGA4cXXs5NNJ2n4mcYaN-gyd-_22BjXkxIvbJBuASy6ZCbmmWMIQOD4gi335OHmISXP9vuJL6koCBYZLQzAWoYBYAcomKzw6tXA/w640-h420/Capture3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 5</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">E quando l'estro "traduttivo" italiano ci si mette di mezzo ecco che <b>the Creep</b> (parola intraducibile che vuol dire allo stesso tempo qualcuno di sinistro, sospetto, strambo ma anche sfigato) diventa <i>Zio Creepy</i>, dunque di fatto un omonimo del personaggio della Warren.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nel sequel <i>Creepshow 2</i> (1987) il personaggio sarà interpretato da un irriconoscibile Tom Savini in uno dei suoi efficaci make-up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBvxYIh1a3UuUo_kYTNldxUaUmyd3t-tx0zTVl2ouDAIGia4RfiW92jQJQ3ICYkD5Wicu_Xh8tS2cmV-XjvFClQsQ4d-xhFOdVqibl9wbLrAId3-8hMerTA3CIRdnF5sZFG-0AFO7k3Cd-F3bWrIVD-4VjPasynkgdvTNxk6V1rqyI07w9w/s474/OIP%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="474" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBvxYIh1a3UuUo_kYTNldxUaUmyd3t-tx0zTVl2ouDAIGia4RfiW92jQJQ3ICYkD5Wicu_Xh8tS2cmV-XjvFClQsQ4d-xhFOdVqibl9wbLrAId3-8hMerTA3CIRdnF5sZFG-0AFO7k3Cd-F3bWrIVD-4VjPasynkgdvTNxk6V1rqyI07w9w/w640-h346/OIP%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nel corso degli anni '80 film come <i>A Nightmare on Elm Street</i> o <i>Venerdì 13</i>, oltre a generare lunghe liste di sequel, diventano film popolari non solo tra gli appassionati del genere, ma veri e propri fenomeni di cultura pop.<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Dylan Dog</i> (in controtendenza con il resto dell'editoria di fumetti) vede aumentare la propria tiratura numero dopo numero.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>E proprio per assecondare l'arrivo dell'horror nella cultura mainstream, n</span><span>el 1989, sull'emittente <b>Italia 1</b> (proprietà di Silvio Berlusconi) debutta <b>Zio Tibia</b>, una t</span><span>rasmissione contenitore per film o telefilm dell'orrore.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Negli intermezzi prima dei film o tra le interruzioni pubblicitarie, questo pupazzone </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(animato maluccio, tra l'altro) si produce in una serie di freddure e giochi di parole che uniscono l'orrido alla commedia. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Difficile capire se si tratti di un mero "omaggio" alla </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">controparte fumettistica (ha un aspetto decisamente diverso) da cui prende in prestito il nome, o se invece sia inteso come un "adattamento ufficiale" del personaggio della Warren.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">E non è solo, a fare da spalla anche un secondo pupazzo, chiamato </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Astragalo, proprio come Cousin Eerie nella sua versione italiana (ma anche qui: il nome è l'unica somiglianza)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A dire il vero la formula ricorda più che altro il già citato show di Vampira.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Px5xM9FTcnE_uq4v0Ncu8_RkYwB-f_0rmCSLVL6n8W9f1fyiQclDlkuEoUvVF3ac7Zbi6AG1_TGBCHV8kL6qGkbORRB_bKKeW9bFP5BZNAwq74h8MpagwZtZsJ6bkIwS4s1LRg7yHbFb9C_nXHC2qFkeQjBFrwAXRQuQKw6IdgbG1jD0hw/s1920/R%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Px5xM9FTcnE_uq4v0Ncu8_RkYwB-f_0rmCSLVL6n8W9f1fyiQclDlkuEoUvVF3ac7Zbi6AG1_TGBCHV8kL6qGkbORRB_bKKeW9bFP5BZNAwq74h8MpagwZtZsJ6bkIwS4s1LRg7yHbFb9C_nXHC2qFkeQjBFrwAXRQuQKw6IdgbG1jD0hw/w640-h360/R%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrioni numero 6 e 7</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Vien da chiedersi se Italia 1 o i produttori del programma abbiano </span><span>pagato i diritti per l'uso dei personaggi, o se forse non sia servito, giacché gli autori hanno fatto solo uso dei nomi italiani, così come tradotti da </span><span>Mondadori</span><span> (nel frattempo divenuta di Berlusconi anch'essa).</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Ad ogni modo, sorvolando sulla qualità di questi interstiziali o sulla liceità nell'uso dei nomi (sull'utilizzo della formula c'è poco da dire, come abbiamo visto è un punto fermo del genere) </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">questo è il programma grazie al quale ho fatto la mia personale conoscenza con Zio Tibia.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ma la cosa più curiosa è il coincidere dell'apparizione italiana di Zio Tibia con il lancio di una trasmissione americana, solo un mese prima: il </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 giugno 1989 sul canale via cavo HBO, è andato in onda il primo episodio di una serie horror. N</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">on una trasmissione contenitore, ma una vera e propria serie TV. Antologica. Si chiama <i>Tales From the Crypt</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">E ad aprire ogni puntata ci pensa </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">un narratore.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Un narratore pupazzo:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Crypt Keeper.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTwsfZ_h66qLTLqh4wymK4apRoKqD8duBmgZlbMPxmJL0f5STikyPtSVspq6Yd1gU-KKJnSAaldYJ91boUWP8pcawzPujkhKutoawgVSNSLFdSuTna4KG88-Di1rRftYBOGQ-2P3vobP0YzvJPrpgYGeygtgA1_0AQS1bfuk9l-fLs-CQig/s844/Capture4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="844" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTwsfZ_h66qLTLqh4wymK4apRoKqD8duBmgZlbMPxmJL0f5STikyPtSVspq6Yd1gU-KKJnSAaldYJ91boUWP8pcawzPujkhKutoawgVSNSLFdSuTna4KG88-Di1rRftYBOGQ-2P3vobP0YzvJPrpgYGeygtgA1_0AQS1bfuk9l-fLs-CQig/w640-h370/Capture4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anfitrione numero 8</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Come già per l'omonimo film di Freddie Francis, molti episodi della serie sono adattamenti di storie pubblicate dalla EC.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La contemporaneità della serie americana con il programma interstiziale su Italia 1 potrebbe benissimo essere stata </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">una coincidenza: c</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ome già osservato, l'horror ha conosciuto una continua crescita di popolarità per tutti gli anni '80.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Solo che </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">quando la serie HBO arriva in Italia, Crypt Keeper prende il nome di... Zio Tibia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">È possibile che chi ha tradotto la serie non sapesse distinguere tra i due personaggi, oppure che abbia voluto creare una continuità laddove non c'era per sfruttare il possibile ricordo che il pubblico italiano aveva con il personaggio della Warren e di Italia 1...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">E così, per lo meno in Italia, i due personaggi sono diventati essenzialmente la stessa cosa.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Niente per cui strapparsi le vesti, per carità, ci sono destini peggiori, ma per lo storico che cerca di mettere le cose in fila si tratta di una piccolo garbuglio che sono contento di essere riuscito a sciogliere.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Altre letture raccomandate:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://reason.com/2005/06/01/the-long-gory-life-of-ec-comic-2/">https://reason.com/2005/06/01/the-long-gory-life-of-ec-comic-2/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.eccomics.com/history">https://www.eccomics.com/history</a></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PS: Per la redazione finale di questo post, mi sono affidato tra le altre fonti, a questo articolo del 2007; accreditato ad un certo 'Undying': </span><a href="https://www.davinotti.com/articoli/la-storia-di-zio-tibia-riordinando-la-cripta/97" style="font-family: helvetica;">La storia di Zio Tibia (riordinando la cripta) | il Davinotti</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-33685109813538023692021-08-27T09:57:00.000+02:002021-08-27T09:57:48.195+02:00One Lovely Drawing<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope <a href="http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">David Apatoff</a> will excuse me for borrowing the title from <a href="http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2006/03/one-lovely-drawing.html" target="_blank">one of his recurring series</a>, but I wanted to share this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Portrait of swimmer (and John Williams fan) Jeff Commings, with whom I've had the pleasure of hosting three episodes of <i><b>The Baton</b></i> podcast, available here:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-24-story-of-a-woman/">https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-24-story-of-a-woman/<br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-62-the-witches-of-eastwick/">https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-62-the-witches-of-eastwick/<br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-77-sabrina/">https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-77-sabrina/</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I really look up to Jeff: besides being a professional athlete (which is already commenadble for the discipline and dedication required, let alone the stamina) and a teacher, he's incredibly polite, articulated, intelligent, brave and entreprising.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Recommended reading:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="goog_195328908"><br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KN3HZ4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0">Odd Man Out: An Autobiography </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-10773048253108902862021-05-21T12:10:00.003+02:002021-05-21T12:10:26.295+02:00José Villarrubia: From a Colorist's Perspective<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187317472_10165180305770117_7286789340722588816_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=09cbfe&_nc_ohc=LtUOaRrEE2wAX-yZp9a&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=8fa1076e1a5fd02cb4df63c3dace8d1a&oe=60CD62B3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187317472_10165180305770117_7286789340722588816_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=09cbfe&_nc_ohc=LtUOaRrEE2wAX-yZp9a&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=8fa1076e1a5fd02cb4df63c3dace8d1a&oe=60CD62B3" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I know I just wrote only a few days ago that the less time we spend on social media, the better. I still stand by it, but I must also admit when people are using them right.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/illustration-major/jose-villarrubia/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">José Villarubia</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> is one of those people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My first encounter with this gentleman's work was on the pages of the ABC comic book line, written by Alan Moore </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">(who else?).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">He is an exeptionally talented artist, photographer and colorist and particularly in this last capacity he has made an incredible contribution to the field with his facebook posts about </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">colors in comics.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I hope he'll manage to organize these into a lecture or an extensive article someday. For the time being, you can enjoy his insights via his Facebook photo album</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=jose.villarrubia&set=a.10163251815750117" target="_blank">From a Colorist's Perspective</a></i></b></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/118765947_10164071973465117_5931806887261075619_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=RuiHH9DwD2kAX9pCchO&_nc_oc=AQlAIb7K17ckSxdRNnGXhJrxQm1UTUrAuJz61h84RjKkzDVyUcorWCx870RrMv-2Ymc&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=bce7906545bfa548c653eb1f987c0d31&oe=60CB2869" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/118765947_10164071973465117_5931806887261075619_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=RuiHH9DwD2kAX9pCchO&_nc_oc=AQlAIb7K17ckSxdRNnGXhJrxQm1UTUrAuJz61h84RjKkzDVyUcorWCx870RrMv-2Ymc&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=bce7906545bfa548c653eb1f987c0d31&oe=60CB2869" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">In many of these posts he also tackles the issue of recoloring older comic books, which is a fascinating subject to me but also criminally neglected.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, ok, it's not a crime to ignore the subject, but how come there is a seizable awareness about the importance of preservation and presentation of film and music (with discussions about formats, supports, mastering techniques, accuracy) but almost none about comics?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>¡Que viva José! </i>then, who delivered possibly the first serious contribution to the field of comic book coloring studies.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make sure you read his notes and all the comments, where the discussion gets juicy.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-25089418732605803002021-05-20T06:43:00.000+02:002021-05-20T06:43:08.936+02:00Zibaldone (part 5)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-48863671317904451382021-05-18T22:26:00.001+02:002021-05-18T22:26:19.408+02:00Zibaldone (Part 4)<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is actually a published work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Portrait of <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos_De_Saeger" target="_blank">Jos De Saeger</a>, flemish politician.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoOFXQnl2bg6as31PGvb80JPukzEUvAvMuBGAH_2TkAvXxM1EPnVXIlM0MhzstnReuB8YzU0RveWJXc43sfN9H7H7BalbDIL7nC2kRg9uikTafGZ2eTlFsyoGBTBOEKiYe_Iu_/s9698/josdesaeger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="9698" data-original-width="6580" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoOFXQnl2bg6as31PGvb80JPukzEUvAvMuBGAH_2TkAvXxM1EPnVXIlM0MhzstnReuB8YzU0RveWJXc43sfN9H7H7BalbDIL7nC2kRg9uikTafGZ2eTlFsyoGBTBOEKiYe_Iu_/w434-h640/josdesaeger.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While this next piece is an attempt to portray <b>Sandy De Crescent</b> (of whom very few pictures are publicly available and none of them is recent).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you know her name, it's because you are either a relative, or you are a professional musician working in Los Angeles, or because (like me) you are a soundtrack fan, of the kind that read all the credits in the album sleeve or in the end credits of movie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ms. De Crescent is best known as an <i>orechestra contractor</i>, meaning she is the one responsible of putting together a studio orchestra lmade of freelancers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you are interested in the subject, check out <a href="https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2019/12/17/sandy-decrescent-podcast/" target="_blank">her interview at thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com</a></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;">Today's piece is a portrait of conductor <a href="https://www.brettmitchellconductor.com/" target="_blank">Brett Mitchell</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Brett <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">currently serves music director of the Colorado Symphony, and his resume is pretty impressive.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">What put him on my radar was a podcast about the music of <i>Star Wars</i>, I've written about <a href="https://downtheguts.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-star-wars-music-podcast-resource.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maurizio, who is currenlty doing a splendid job at <a href="http://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com">thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com</a>, got in touch with him, so we decided to present him with this tittle loving tribute.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91hh5WNEhkkGU2MwYm34YVndFszdNXoy_K8HA_cDmzx1CIjinTcAxyPmBfWHsKR4cJAMvcqT_AgKygDmxoA1u8EGgjs8PTf56WtK7wpiY4I5RiNoQWoxTFG9V5CZqg-QNV4p/s4000/BrettMitchell.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="1978" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91hh5WNEhkkGU2MwYm34YVndFszdNXoy_K8HA_cDmzx1CIjinTcAxyPmBfWHsKR4cJAMvcqT_AgKygDmxoA1u8EGgjs8PTf56WtK7wpiY4I5RiNoQWoxTFG9V5CZqg-QNV4p/w316-h640/BrettMitchell.JPG" width="316" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's a couople of lovely video's of Brett playing John Williams on the piano</span></div><p><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="356" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c1hdOMODHIY" width="480" youtube-src-id="c1hdOMODHIY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tsf_pWCdKWs" width="480" youtube-src-id="tsf_pWCdKWs"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-37943800356480284562021-05-16T14:32:00.001+02:002021-05-16T14:32:08.747+02:00Zibaldone (Part 2)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Zibaldone" is a term made famous by italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, who used it to name a collection of written notes, thoughts and reflections, kept for several years. It means "heap of things" and I like to use it as a placeholder for all my scribbles who I can't bother to better categorize.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The term was also used in the weekly (now monthly) sport magazine <i>Guerin Sportivo</i> for the 2-page spread dedicated to cartoons satyrizing the world of sports (it was the only section I used to read).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thorugh the years I had different ideas about what this blog should be about, resisting the idea to turn it into a dump of personal art and thoughts because</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1) I'm not particularly gifted as a writer,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2) nor as an artist;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3) I don't like vanity projects;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4) social media profiles seem better suited to that kind of simple 'content sharing'.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a universe where I have little else to do, I'd love to produce longer pieces on topics that matter (at least to me) and leave a meaningful contribution, like i did <a href="https://downtheguts.blogspot.com/2019/06/ther-terminator-vs-ranxerox.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://downtheguts.blogspot.com/2018/07/zemeckis-spielberg-lucas-and-norman.html" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="http://downtheguts.blogspot.com/2018/06/hbos-watchmen-part-2.html" target="_blank">here</a>), but u</span><span style="font-family: arial;">nforntunately I cannot afford that kind of time to spare.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But I don't want to discontinue this blog either, on the contrary : I'd like to revitalize it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But lacking more substantial content, I think I'll go for the Zibaldone approach.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I do have heaps of pieces I wouldn't mind to share, and I'm not interested in using social media like Instagram or Facebook to do it for a number of reasons among which:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1) The 'like' mechanism turns everything shared in a cry for attention while encouraging lazy interactions (rather than engage in commentary, people simply click on one option: Like, Love, Haha etc... also conforming to a very limited range of possible categories in reaction to something</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2) Posting on social media platforms increase only the value of the company, but does not get me any piece of the pie. I suppose what I get in return are the services they offer, but although my personal contribution to the creation of value for Facebook or Instagram or whatever is of course absolutely marginal, still: I'm making money for them with my work.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3) Being active on social media is an invitation to other people to spend time there, which we all should do less.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">ERGO</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'll just dump stuff here.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I hope you don't mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC5HtboHi0gjgHuik2MYAX-DMbuPru8rqI607rstyZVR11aKORIwDWgzg7ggcSb52htJxPkn3dsfpchtD3PjwrwEtv5j3KmkeqmhoHiIInqnFIWIo0dyHzgCvQYhE94BO2Nde/s2048/dayak.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1547" data-original-width="2048" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC5HtboHi0gjgHuik2MYAX-DMbuPru8rqI607rstyZVR11aKORIwDWgzg7ggcSb52htJxPkn3dsfpchtD3PjwrwEtv5j3KmkeqmhoHiIInqnFIWIo0dyHzgCvQYhE94BO2Nde/w640-h485/dayak.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These are studies for a character in a story I'm currently working on. It's set in a Borneo-like environment, so I drew inspiration from this documentary:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TiQBTesZUJQ" width="478" youtube-src-id="TiQBTesZUJQ"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and this is a piece of the final art</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBxTALESBW-eOW70Cfeaxrjvvy2dLj7fdgwI4rhZAY_sUk6yiDgS6tykH5CTTAI-THBkT9Xhd7mziHuHdIDHKx_g_tmVkwj4lY5waOXO3N0tr4QiGWx5jNhgmxe-rFaBmwaCh/s2709/aap-pag006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2709" data-original-width="1161" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBxTALESBW-eOW70Cfeaxrjvvy2dLj7fdgwI4rhZAY_sUk6yiDgS6tykH5CTTAI-THBkT9Xhd7mziHuHdIDHKx_g_tmVkwj4lY5waOXO3N0tr4QiGWx5jNhgmxe-rFaBmwaCh/w274-h640/aap-pag006.jpg" width="274" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-31276168696863970282021-04-12T09:03:00.004+02:002021-04-12T09:03:36.730+02:00A note from 2019...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I recently happened to find a copy of the old Belgian magazine <i><b>(A suivre)</b></i> (which means "To be continued") laying around in a chalet we rented for a week end in the Ardennes.<br />
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Most of the material in it I knew: Schuiten & Peeters, Manara & Pratt, Tardi... all first rate creators.<br />
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I started to think about anthology titles from different countries, things like <i>Eerie</i>, <i>Creepy</i>, <i>Mad</i>, <i>Tomorrow Stories</i> (U.S.A.) <i>Star Magazine</i>, <i>Hyperion</i>, <i>Comic Art</i>, <i>Linus</i>, <i>Horror</i>, <i>Frigidaire </i>(Italy)<i> Shoenen Jump</i> (Japan), <i>2000 AD</i>, <i>Warrior </i>(U.K.), not to mention that an awful lot of American comic book titles later known for showcasing one superhero, originally started as anthologies: <i>Action Comics</i>, <i>Detective Comics</i>, <i>Amazing Adult Fantasy</i>, <i>Tales of Suspence</i>...<br />
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The immediate feeling was one of longing: I missed the times when quality content could be showcased like hits on a radio station in an editorial format that allowed, from time to time, the introduction of new creators, stories, styles or characters alongside the more popular ones.<br />
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To me this is a formula that facilitates the grooming new talent.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sprinkle a bit of editorial content in it (a letters column, an op ed piece, some reviews) and you can really 'build' an inforemd readership and even create a platform for the medium.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yet anthology titles have mostly disappeared, together with newsstand distribution.<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why the lack of success?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Well, I suppose that we can partially ascribe it to the decline of printed media in general, but the majority of anthologies was discontinued long before that</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One happy exception would be Walt Disney's italian weekly <i>Topolino</i>, still continuing an illustrious run, although it belongs to a category of its own and the circulation numbers of today, while still enviable, are but a portion of what they were thirty yearg ago.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />However, I do not want to surrender to a pessimistic narrative, according to which things only get worse.<br />
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Yes, there are many things about the past I miss, but I'm afraid that my perspective is somewhat distorted, exactly because I keep using the wrong parameters to judge the current state of affairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This time QT payed hommage to <b>MAD Magazine</b>, a seminal american publication influential to at least two generations of comedy writers, performers and of course cartoonists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch Tarantino talking about it with late night show host Jimmy Kimmel (that part starts at the 6:35 mark)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the movie, MAD veteran artist <a href="https://www.tomrichmond.com/art/mad-art/" target="_blank">Tom Richmond created some wonderful illustrations</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This inspired me to create my little <b>MAD Magazine</b> homage, which is, at the same time, an hommage to <a href="http://www.redlettermedia.com/" target="_blank">Red Letter Media</a>, a video/filmmaking company based in Milwakee, rised to Internet stardom in the last decade thanks to their witty, funny, insightful and irreverent video essays and review shows on YouTube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21;">I spend more time on YouTube than I care to admit, especially to have something to listen to whenever I do something which does not require much from the left side of my brain and for </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the last 10 years </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/redlettermedia?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">RedLetterMedia</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> put out consistently good content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21;">But more than that, their channel is essentially the YouTube version of a hang-out movie, as we feel like we got to know these people through their sarcastic yet laid-back attitude, their candor and the omnipresent corpsing and laughter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Little did I know, while creating the piece, that <a href="https://www.newsarama.com/46433-dan-didio-on-dc-s-direct-market-issues.html" target="_blank">DC Comics announced that it would cease the distribution of MAD Magazine in newsstands and grocery stores</a>, marking the end of an era.</span></span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-59513802989559841492019-06-14T14:12:00.001+02:002021-02-01T14:00:59.303+01:00Ther Terminator vs. Ranxerox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In a recent conversation with c</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">zech comic book historian </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Pavel Korinek, we remarked how the field of comic book studies offers vast horizons for research; as opposed to other arts that have been endlessly analyzed and written over.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Up until now, comic book history and aesthetics have ben covered mostly by fans rather than academics (it's a gross over simplification, but it's true that the majority of in-depth books and articles about comic books have been written primarily by fans or insiders). </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And while fans and aficionados can be incredibly precise about certain details of their favorite subject matter, at the same time they do not apply rigorous standards when it comes to vet their sources.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The situation is anyway improving every year: there is more care, more substantial journalism, more academic research, and the possibility to cross-check information with a lot of ease thanks to the internet (although, the internet plays a major role in spreading inaccuracies as it does in divulgating knowledge).</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Those columns were like a primer for my interest in comic book history.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">However I had to recently think about one specific bit of information found in </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">the article "Cinema & Comicworld" from STAR MAGAZINE issue 22, July 1992 (page 91):</span></div>
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Is this true? Did this underground italian comic serve as inspiration for the ultra-popular franchise?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><br /></div>
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First of all, I have never found any interview with Cameron confirming that. It looks like this notion is being passed among bloggers, columnists and artists, but is still unsourced. A quote attributed to Stefano Tamburini, creator of Ranxerox, also circulates in a similar unsourced fashion (supposedly the creator Stefano Tamburini lamented the lack of credit, saying that Cameron could have at least bought him a cup of coffie).</div>
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Casting Arnold in the role was happenstance: after becoming a star thanks to <i>Conan the Barbarian</i>, the Austrian bodybuilder had enough clout to demand and obtain the title role in the film, something the producers were happy to indulge, but with which Cameron had problems, as it would have completely blown his concept of an average-looking killer.</div>
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-77611931077401336022019-06-04T07:30:00.000+02:002019-06-04T07:30:27.792+02:00The Baton Podcast - Story of a Woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeff Commings of <a href="https://thebatonpodcast.podbean.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Baton</b> podcast</a> asked me to co-host an episode of his show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Jeff embarked for the worthy endeavour of covering <b>the entire filmography of composer John Williams</b> one film at a time, I got in touch with him and immediately suggested that he reached out for co-hosts, since I believe that talk radio is at its best when there is some back and forth between people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He took the advice, announced he would accept submissions and there you go, I was allowed to join the show in occasion of the "Story of a Woman" episode.</span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-63901301579118935982019-05-13T08:11:00.000+02:002019-05-13T08:11:48.138+02:00More composers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-6919646545883337252019-04-25T12:22:00.001+02:002019-06-13T10:25:01.001+02:00Updates....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first one is a promotional piece for <i>Nerd Anti Zombie</i>, the second novel by my dear friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancescoNuceraAutore/" target="_blank">Francesco Nucera</a>.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My companion during the visit was the always nice Steven De Rie<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto;">, who was warned by some fellow cartoonist not to expect much from the exhibition, since most of the samples came from a single private collection.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: normal;">I ignore what kind of show this other cartoonist expected, but the exhibit was really well done.</span></span></pre>
<pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: normal;">Sure there was a relatively little from <i>The Spirit</i> to see (only a handful of splash-pages) but the selections form the master's later works such as <i>Dropsie Avenue</i>, <i>The Name of the Game </i>or <i>A Contract with God</i> were substantial and diverse (not to mention practically the complete <i>The Dreamer</i>, a book that holds a very special place in my heart).</span></span></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: normal;">If any criticism can be made about the exhibition is the scarcity of prep material such as sketches and/or scripts (it would have been interesting to see how the Spirit stories were plotted, scripted and then realized, especially beacuse the process involved other artists or writers).</span></span></pre>
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Anyway, this should not be missed by any comic book lover who has the chance to visit Brussels or its surroundings.
The exhibition lasts <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">until March the 2nd 2014</a>. Entrance fee is 8 euros, but it buys the access to the whole museum (which is always worth the price)</span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Originally aired on TVO, the O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ntario public service channel, the s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">how delved in sci-fi, speculative fiction and horror genres in literature and comics (film was touched upon, but not extensively), long before "geek culure"* became cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">a number of episodes used to be available at the TVO online archives, but once the agreements with the people interviewed expired had to be removed</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The host was comedian Rick Green, whe have since become one of my heroes for <a href="https://totallyadd.com/blog/">his work on AD(H)D</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/06/geeks-guide-prisoners-of-gravity/">Read here an interesting look back at the program by itys makers, appeared on WIRED</a>.</span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-86245027039588363162019-04-05T07:17:00.000+02:002019-04-05T07:17:48.112+02:00Reflections: Growing Up With Music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>This is a piece I wrote for the website </i></span><i><a href="https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/">thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com</a>, curated by my brother Maurizio, who is doing a remarkable job in "building a platform to celebrate and promote the cultural and aesthetic importance that the music of John Williams had (and it’s still having) on many people around the world".</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I am typing this, the sound of my son practicing scales on the piano resonates through the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think back to my short-lived affair with the instrument.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was about seven years old and I wanted to learn how to play piano from one of my older brothers, but he had just left to study in Rome. I was put under the tutelage of another teacher; whose lessons were tedious and devoid of the kind of fun I used to have around my brother. I quit after six months, a decision I still regret. But I wasn’t left without musical mentors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking of my older brother, a recent conversation we had springs to my mind about the different music teaching methods. He was telling me a funny anecdote involving an acquaintance of his, who wanted to educate his son outside of the western tonal system, to spare him from the conditioning imposed by our musical tradition, which puts certain intervallic relationships (like the tonic-dominant) above other possible modes. Ironically, this person’s efforts were made vain by the many nursery rhymes that the kid learned at school—nothing stick to our brains like simple, diatonic major melodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What’s the point of this story? Well not so much to discuss the pros and cons of equal temperament, but rather to point out how glad I am to be able to participate in the conversation. Because despite having given up on piano (or any other instrument for that matter) I’m not musically illiterate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And for that I must thank John Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make no mistakes: I admit that the reason I gravitated towards Mr. Williams’ music were the movies he scored. Like many kids in the 1980s, I was utterly captivated by movies like <i>Star Wars</i>, <i>Superman</i> or <i>E.T.</i> They were perfectly executed pieces of fiction easy to fall in love with. Listening to those scores was a pathway to that sense of wonderment and excitement those movies provided.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But on repeated listening, the richness of these scores started to intrigue me. The dramatic drive of the pieces made the narrative clear, so I could tell at which point of the story I was listening to. The melodic writing made every moment memorable and singable. The rich instrumentation and length of the cues sustained my interest. So much that, as a teen ager, it took a long time to adjust my ears to the pop-music I was “supposed” to listen in the 1990s, to keep at pace with my schoolmates, who were into grunge, indie rock or Britpop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But no matter how important John Williams music was to ignite my interest in music, you need teachers in flesh and blood to make the seed blossom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Luckily, I had at least one: <a href="http://www.umbertobombardelli.info/index_eng.php">Umberto Bombardelli</a>, a composer himself, who taught music at my middle school. He could have come right out of movies like <i>Mr. Holland’s Opus</i> or <i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</i>—he even looked like Peter O’ Toole in that 1969 movie (with music adapted and conducted by John Williams, by the way).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the time, music was a mandatory subject in Italy for students in middle school between the age of 11 and 14, but it was easily disregarded as an extra or a commodity, certainly not the subject that would make or break your graduation. However, Mr. Bombardelli taught passionately, with patience and humor, becoming soon known by his pupils as “the good teacher”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He did a lot more than just make us play the recorder or put on Prokofiev’s <i>Peter and the Wolf</i>. He made us listen to various type of music (from Palestrina to Demetrio Stratos and Luciano Berio), teaching us about the different musical periods and styles. He even showed us movies and made us pay attention to the music (<i>The Blues Brothers</i>, Walt Disney’s <i>Fantasia</i> and also the Williams-scored <i>The Cowboys</i>). To this day, I owe him for laying the foundations of any musical knowledge I may have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I grew up, I gravitated towards Romantic or Post-Romantic composers, whose works shared a lot of common traits with the type of film music me and my brother Maurizio learned to love, from John Williams to Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri and Danny Elfman. The two pieces that encouraged me to explore the very rich catalog of classical music were the symphonic suite from George Gershwin’s <i>Porgy and Bess</i> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj-kSofpSW4">the great London Symphony Orchestra recording conducted by the late great André Previn</a>) and Rimsky-Korsakov’s <i>Scheherazade</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKOAvPxpDu0">as recorded by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for RCA</a> (this one kindly recommended by my brother Alessandro).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We used to have a public radio station that aired classical music nonstop 24/7 (the so-called filodiffusione, which is now part of the bouquet of radio channels managed by the Italian national broadcasting service, a.k.a. RAI) and I was listening to it at every possible moment—I once spent two hours pretending to pay attention during a class in high school while I was listening to Gustav Mahler’s <i>Symphony No.3</i> through an earpiece hidden in my hand (true story).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From there it has been a fantastic voyage through multi-colored soundscapes. A journey I still enjoy every day. Today I do not have to rely on a fortuitous encounter with a dedicated teacher or on state-owned radio stations, the internet made it possible to discover and share gems very easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it all started thanks to John Williams. And his music still works magnificently as gateway to musical appreciation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the meantime, the sound of scales has been swapped for more familiar tunes, as my son now plays the “Flying Theme” from E.T. and then “The Imperial March”, and then the Theme from Schindler’s List. I hear him stumble or hitting a wrong note here and there, but the pleasure he has in playing the music is palpable. Since I showed him Richard Donner’s <i>Superman: The Movie</i>, he became a big fan, so much so that he asked for the sheet music as present for Christmas. Even my wife, who does not care much about film music (but who has, unlike me, stuck to her piano lessons and CAN actually play the thing) is starting to warm up to Williams’s infectious tunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mind wanders again: I now think of a painting one of my art teachers once did. It was called <i>Music, a gift from heaven</i>. It depicts a mandolin and a dove, against puffy clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was well drawn, but incredibly cheesy. But I do share the feeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And whether this gift comes from gods, from heaven or from nature, I will forever be grateful to Mr. Williams for delivering it to me.</span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-17291377218835223182019-03-28T15:34:00.002+01:002019-03-29T13:47:49.836+01:00Deconstructing Woody<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's just that in my recent interest in caricatures I came across the work of very different, yet all very talented artist and I wanted to compare their styles based on the same subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With his attitude and features, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Woody Allen has created</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> something of a modern "Maschera da Commedia dell'Arte", and this gave a lot of latitude to caricaturists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first in our series is Jack Davis, renowed and prolific illustrator from the 50sto the 2000s. Active in comics (various EC and warren titles, not to mention MAD MAgazine) advertising, movie posters and more, Jack Davis has been possibly the most famous "big feet" artist for decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm not diminishing his work at all, Jack Davis had a knack for posters and humourous illustrations for sure ans d his works exude personality. If anything, Davis' personality is coming maybe too strongly across. It is almost like he drew a JAck Davis character that appears to share some feature with Woody Allen (the thick rimmed spectacles, the unkempt hair, the long nose).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hard to pick one out from the two, but I'd go for Drucker for this reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another well known caricaturist is David Levine, whose pen-and-ink crosshatching is reminiscent of satirical prints of older centuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Differently from Davis and Drucker, Levine's characters do not have to live in an environment or to interact much with other people, props or background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">therefore the artist can have a lot of liberty with proportions and with the degree of detail he wants to put in to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And to the opposite side of the spectrum, we have Al Hirshfield, to this day possibly one of the classiest and most refined charicaturists of the twentieth century.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hirshfield worked hard to distill the essence of his subjects in a few, elegant lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This tradition of of great stylisation is still alive today, thanks to artists like the argentinian Pablo Lobato, and his amazing poppy and yet constructivist portraits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But comics can do stylization too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Check out how Woody Allen, who has been the subject of a syndacated stryp for quite some time, has been synthetized to a few pen strokes by cartoonist Stuart Hample.</span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-84750346593248830372019-01-28T14:42:00.003+01:002021-05-17T12:21:29.976+02:00The Star Wars Music Podcast Resource<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IFKMbHEVN78/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IFKMbHEVN78/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Although I try to keep this blog about illustration and comics, I don't mind adding off-topic posts from time to time.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And honestly, I believe this topic has a lot to do with my elected area of interest.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Art isn't created in a vacuum.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Drawing can be an intense mental and physical activity, one that requires time and a certain state of mind.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Many artists I know reach that state of mind by listening to music or talk radio.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">An awful lot of artists are addicted to podcasts and I'm no different.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">W</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">ith this post I hope to provide some food for hungry ears.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My last post was a dry list of artists I like to call "the impeccables", people whom I regard almost above criticism.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But not all the artists I look up in admiration for the quality of their output are visual artists.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If I had to name the greatest artists working today in any field, composer <b>John Williams</b> would certainly be one of them, probably at the top, certainly in the top three.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is not a post about him (there is plenty of resources to discover, explore and examine his impressive body of works), but about PODCASTS on John Williams, and more specifically about his seminal scores for the Star Wars movies.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If any reader out there shares my fascination with the music of John Williams, the following links will provide many hours of entertaining education (I didn't do the math, but all these podcasts together clock around sixty hours!!)</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A good place to start, is</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/classical-classroom/" target="_blank">Classical Classroom</a></span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hosting the program is <a href="https://www.daciaclay.com/">Dacia Clay</a>, self-admittedly out of her element when it comes to classical music. Her "ignorance" (for lack of a better term) is actually one of the show's assets: musicians, musicologists and other experts engage in a conversation with Dacia acting as teachers to her student and explain a particular piece of music or another well-defined musical topic.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This predicament allows the less musically educated listeners to be taken by the hand and discover the world of classical music together with the host.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She dedicated two episodes to the music of Star Wars.</span></h3>
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<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2014/09/08/52995/classical-classroom-episode-4-leitmotif-in-star-wars-brett-mitchell/" target="_blank"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Classical Classroom - Leitmotifs (or Leitmotiven) in Star Wars</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2016/01/18/134395/classical-classroom-episode-115-awakening-john-williams-force-with-brett-mitchell/" target="_blank"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Classical Classroom - The Force Awakens</span></a><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rebelforceradio.com/star-wars-oxygen/" target="_blank">Star Wars Oxygen</a></span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A show that ran on the Rebel Force Radio site for about 40 episodes.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The hosting duo is composed of radio host Jimmy “Mac” McInerney and musician/actor/sound designer <a href="https://twitter.com/davidwcollins" target="_blank">David W. Collins</a>, who </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">assumes the role of the lecturer, but the similarities with the former podcast stop pretty much there.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Both hosts are big Star Wars fans and the show is featured in a <a href="http://www.rebelforceradio.com/" target="_blank">Star Wars fan site</a>. This perspective is an important element in the make of the show. David Collins does his best to explain and clarify a lot of the information that could be lost to the more casual listener, but fan discussions these are and, at times, proudly so.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I must also say that Jimmy Mac, albeit not contributing with intellectual insights, is a good host too, with an appreciation for behind-the-scenes Star Wars lore. The only complaint I have is that his growling, sympathetic voice is not matched by an equally diverse vocabulary.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">On the positive side: this is the only show who managed to cover SW episodes I to VII, plus a number of side projects.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/2015/10/1/star-wars-oxygen-vol-3">http://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/2015/10/1/star-wars-oxygen-vol-3</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/2015/10/1/star-wars-oxygen-vol-5">http://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/2015/10/1/star-wars-oxygen-vol-5</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Star Wars Oxygen has stopped in 2016, but host David Collins has returned in 2018 with a new podcast, this time hosting solo, called </span><a href="https://www.soundtrackpodcast.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">The Soundtrack Show.</a></span></h2>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In this podcast Collins expands his focus to the whole repertoire of film, television and video games music, not just Star Wars.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But as a massive John Williams fan, he could not let go the opportunity to cover once again the original 1977 film, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">which received a lush 6-episodes treatment.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The show is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/jazznerd">Andrew Pogson</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqnos76uuqYRZ-zI2MRNGnA">Dan Golding</a> and <a href="https://www.nicholasbuc.com/">Nicholas Buc</a>, three aussies linked to the <a href="https://www.mso.com.au/">Melbourne Symphony Orchestra</a>. Albeit the panel consists entirely of professional musicians, the discussions aren't hard to follow at all for the uneducated listeners. The trio keeps a light and enthusiastic tone, cracking a joke every now and then.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/5/24/episode-7-star-wars-part-1">http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/5/24/episode-7-star-wars-part-1</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/6/9/episode-8-star-wars-part-2">http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/6/9/episode-8-star-wars-part-2</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/7/4/episode-9-star-wars-part-3">http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/7/4/episode-9-star-wars-part-3</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2018/4/3/episode-15-the-force-awakens-part-1">http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2018/4/3/episode-15-the-force-awakens-part-1</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2018/5/11/episode-16-the-force-awakens-part-2">http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2018/5/11/episode-16-the-force-awakens-part-2</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But even if the quality of <i>Art of the Score</i> is pretty high, in</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> my book the very best podcasts on <i>Star Wars</i> have been the episodes from the show</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">hosted by the brothers </span><a href="https://martybmusic.weebly.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Marty</a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="https://www.williambmusic.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">William Brueggeman</a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Their podcast is extremely good, albeit on the nerdy side as the two musician-composer brothers really enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of music theory with their in-depth analysis.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But they provide a lot of material, cueing in lots of bare piano examples to explain things like melody and harmony, lots of soundbites from interviews, or from the movies they analyze.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The other podcasts do that too, but here we are on another level.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">They also covered the score to the original 1977 <i>Star Wars</i> in seven lengthy episodes, which I've </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">already</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">listened countless times. I'd place them up there with Howard Goodall's or Leonard Bernstein's TV programs on music.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/06/prologue-long-time-ago.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/06/prologue-long-time-ago.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/06/7m1-star-wars-main-title.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/06/7m1-star-wars-main-title.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m2-themes-of-star-wars.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m2-themes-of-star-wars.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m3a-sw-spotting-session-part-i.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m3a-sw-spotting-session-part-i.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/interlude-princess-leias-theme.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/interlude-princess-leias-theme.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m3b-spotting-session-for-star-wars.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/07/7m3b-spotting-session-for-star-wars.html</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/08/7m4-star-wars-commentary.html">http://underscorepodcast.blogspot.com/2018/08/7m4-star-wars-commentary.html</a></span><br />
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Gianmaria Caschettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442224827625186651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30456479.post-61355123625106240542019-01-14T08:00:00.000+01:002019-01-14T08:23:15.737+01:00The Impeccables<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the laziest post I have ever come up with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's just a list. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A list of artists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of comic artists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They didn't necessarily create or illustrated my favourite comics, but all of the following did comics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to create a list of great comic book artist (and to back me on the importance of lists I can summon none other than the great late <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/spiegel-interview-with-umberto-eco-we-like-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-a-659577-2.html" target="_blank">Umberto Eco</a>) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They have to have done comics, and I'm not talking about a few, but an appreciable body of work in sequential art (either daily strips, comic books or graphic novels).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following are not necessarily influential authors (though some of them are).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to include artists who:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">are not merely "good", but rather the creators of pieces I love to behold (I'll admit that the list is largely based on taste).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">are consistently good, or at least <i>never </i>sub-par.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I consider versatile (some excellently so, while other stay in their comfort zone) they can draw anything.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">are solid <u>draftspeople</u>, with a very clear personal voice.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some much beloved people are missing from my list, but this list is not a list about </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">IMPORTANT artists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This list is about DRAWING.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my eyes these are the COMIC artists that you should look at if you want to see how to draw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do not consider this list definitive by any measure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will expand it and possibil leave someone out in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But for my money, as of today, they are the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I call them "the Impeccables".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(here in strict alphabetical order)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Al Williamson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Albert Uderzo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alberto Breccia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alex Maleev</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alex Raymond</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alex Ross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alex Toth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">André Franquin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Antonio Barreti</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Attilio Micheluzzi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill Sienkevich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill Watterson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Brian Bolland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cam Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Corrado Mastrantuono</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dave McKean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">David Mazzucchelli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dino Battaglia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eddy Campbell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ferdnando Tacconi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Frank Cho</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gabriele Pennacchioli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Giorgio Cavazzano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ivo Milazzo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">J H Willliams III</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joe Kubert</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">John Buscema</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jon J Muth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jorge Zaffino</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leonard Starr</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Manfred Sommer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Massimo De Vita</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael Lark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mike Mignola</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Milo Manara</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Milton Caniff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moebius (Jean Giraud)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mort Drucker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nicolas De Crecy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Noel Sickles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paolo Euletieri-Serpieri</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Serge Baeken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sergio Toppi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tobias Schalken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walt Kelly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Winsor McCay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To follow, some honorable mentions, people I would have included but did not make it for "technical" (rather than merit) at this first round. I may decide to include them further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adam Hughes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alfonso Font</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill Wray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bob De Moor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bruce Timm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edgar P. Jacobs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gigi Cavenago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jack Davis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jordi Bernet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Riccardo Mannelli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Victor de la Fuente</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To conclude, these are artists I've been suggested to include, but I nstill need to review properly (I know many of them, but not so much to consider them "impeccables")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bernard Krigstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bernie Wrightson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chris Samnee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dan Speigle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Esteban Maroto</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Goran Parlov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guy Davis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Harvey Kurtzman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hergé</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hugo Pratt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jack Kirby</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jamie Hernandez</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeff Smith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">John Dixon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Johnny Craig</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mort Meskin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">P. Craig Russell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul Gillon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul Grist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pete Morisi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rutu Modan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve Rude</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I realize right now that this list does not include one single female artist, nor any cartoonist from Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to Serge Baeken, who made these portraits last year.</span><br />
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