
Alfredo Castelli, che oltre a essere il famoso creatore di Martin Mystère e un colto collezionista è anche un grande esperto di fumetto a tutto tondo, ha svolto un mostruoso lavoro di ricerca sui fumetti delle origini, sui tantissimi "colleghi" di Yellow Kid (oltre 1.600 in 25 anni!), i suoi ormai sconosciuti contemporanei. Ne sono scaturiti due preziosi volumi "Here We Are Again 1" e "Here We Are Again 2" che riportano in vita i moltissimi personaggi che, dal 1895 al 1919, hanno vissuto la grande avventura del lancio mondiale del fumetto statunitense attraverso i giornali! Una vera chicca! E' come trovare un tesoro nascosto e tirarne fuori dei gioielli d'incredibile bellezza. Si scopre, ad esempio, un supereroe del 1902 (36 anni prima di Superman), un fumetto realistico del 1904 (24 anni prima di Tarzan), un personaggio che diventa una divinità in Giappone, un secondo Yellow Kid a Philadelphia, Tom & Jerry nel 1907!...
Fate click sulle due icone e ammirate le presentazioni dei due volumi. Info: mystere@bvzm.com
On May 5, 1895, the first color installment of Richard Felton Outcault's Hogan's Alley was run in the Humor Section of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. Soo to be known as The Yellow Kid, the series is considered by many as "the first comic strip". It was not. Comics had been published in Europe and in America for more than half a century, and their ancestors had been thriving in the Old World since the Middle Ages. But, without any doubt, The Yellow Kid was the spark that gave birth to the American Newspaper Comics and to the Comics industry, popularizing the medium all over the world. Here We Are Again by Alfredo Castelli deals with the first 25 years of American Newspaper Comics, beginning in 1895, when The Yellow Kid was born, and ending in 1919, when all the main features of the medium had been developed and set. Here We Are Again: all the major and lesser known characters, the celebrated and the esoteric: masterworks, the artists, the syndicates, the newspapers, the shows, the movies, the songs and the hullabaloo that contributed in casting one of the most popular media ever, during an almost forgotten yet basic timespan of its history. Prepare yourself to a corroborating dive into the Gilded Age of Comics, a colorful past when funnies were funny. And now click on the images to see a preview of the two book! Info: mystere@bvzm.com
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