Table Of Contents
THE COMIC (P)AGES
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Antecedents
Just Look At The Pictures!
In Search of the Roots of Illustrated Newspaper Supplements by Alfredo Castelli, 8
The Golden Years Of "Puck"
Heroes For Sale: The Odd Alliance Between Comic Strips and Advertising in Hearst’s Newspapers by Alfredo Castelli, 14
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The Middle-Class Tradition
A Family Friend
The Rise and Fall of "Corriere Dei Piccoli": One Hundred Years of Great Funnies by Cristiano Zacchino, 20
A Century Of Comic Strips
History and Glory of Corrierino:
A Century of Italian Life in the Comic Strips of Italy’s Most Beloved Children’s Weekly
by Leonardo Gori, 22
The Metamorphoses of a Magazine
The Modern Age: How Success Spoiled Corrierino
by Marco Candellone, 52
Bubi in Slumberland
From Alphonse and Gaston to Uncle Mun: The Italianization of American Characters.
by Alfredo Castelli, 70
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Family Values
Good Reading
From Il Vittorioso to Il Giornalino: A History of Catholic Comic Strips
by Bruno Enna, 80
Seduction of the Innocent
Censorship and Self-Censorship: A Compromise for Survival
by Moreno Burattini, 82
Edutainment
Il Giornalino: The History and Stories of a Daring Children’s Magazine
by Piero Zanotto, 90
Il Giornalino's Paper Heroes
An Essential Dictionary of the Characters that Marked an Epoch
by Raffaella Ceragioli and Bruno Enna, 100
Il Messaggero Dei Ragazzi
The Golden Age of Il Messaggero: When a Priest Had the Word.
by Moreno Burattini, 108
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Left-Wing Comics
Red Clouds
Italian Comics (And Not Only Comics) As Seen from the Left. A Story of Alliances and Suspicions
by Tito Faraci 124
Little Pravda
Twenty Years of Il Pioniere: The Ancestors, the Independent Life, the Supplement in L'Unità
by Luciano Tamagnini, 126
Vie Nuove
A Militant Weekly Magazine and its Alternative Relationship with Comics by Nino Cannata, 144
Cuore
Going Against the Stream. Twenty Years After the Birth of Il Male, A Chronology of Satire in Cartoons by Tito Faraci, 147
(Red) Stars And Strips
The Comics of the American Left: A Forgotten Adventure by Alfredo Castelli, 148
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The Popular Vision
Il Giorno
by Luigi F. Bona, 152
Il Giorno Dei Ragazzi
by Luigi F. Bona, 156
An Eagle in Space
Dan Dare, Il Giorno’s Great Hero of. His Origins, Adventures, and Editorial History by Luigi F. Bona, 172
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Scandals In Strips
ABC, A Weekly Shout
First the Blurbs. Then the Spirit of Reiser. The History of a Popular and Restless Magazine in a Changing Country by Nino Cannata, 180
ABC, Scandals And Comic Strips
Comic Strips for Fun and Provocation. Great Characters and Beautiful Girls in a Very Irreverent Magazine by Nino Cannata, 182
Then Someone Decided It Was Time to Laugh
Popular Erotic Cartoons: The Trashy Side of Sexual Liberation by Nino Cannata, 192
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A Collectors’ Guide
Looking for Lost Cartoons
Supplements, Inserts, Newspaper Sections.
Mysteries and Treasures of Yesterday's and Today’s Comic (P)ages, 196
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Cartoomics '98
A Guide to the Cartoomics Exhibition '98, 243