Bobo (Italian comics)

Bobo
GenreSatiric, autobiographical

Bobo is the title character of an eponym Italian comic strip created in 1979 by Sergio Staino. It was referred as a symbol of a whole generation.[1][2]

The first comic strip of Bobo was created October 10, 1979 and was published in Linus in December of the same year.[3] The comics later appeared in a large number of magazines and newspapers, including L'Unità, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Il Messaggero, L'espresso, Panorama, Cuore, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni.

The comic strip is pretty autobiographical, and the title character, a middle-aged former Communist average man struggling with family, politics and hobbies, is a self-portrait of the same author.[1][4]

The same Staino starred in a live-action transposition of the comics, hosted in a segment of the television variety Drive In, in the 1984/1985 season.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b Franco Fossati, I grandi eroi del fumetto, Gramese, 1990, pp.51-52.
  2. ^ Umberto Eco (preface). Bobo e dintorni. Antologica su Sergio Staino. Milano libri, 1985.
  3. ^ "Generazione Bobo". Corriere Fiorentino. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ^ a b Stephen Gundle, Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991, Duke University Press, 2000, pp.197-202.
  5. ^ Roberto Poppi, I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri, Gremese Editore, 2002, p.337.
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