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"You could (and should) write a novel about the history of Tex, its publishing history, the wonderful mystery of his success along over half a century." (17)
"Shortly after its publication, the novel 'Treasure Island' was judged negatively by Henry James. Perhaps because, he wrote, had never gone in search of chests full of gold buried by pirates. Robert Louis Stevenson said so : 'If you have never tried treasures, you can easily prove that Henry James was never a child. There has never been a child who has not sought gold, was not pirate or captain of soldiers or banned mountain; who has not battles ever done, is shipwrecked and has not been taken prisoner, and has not bathed in blood in her small hands, or who bravely not be withdrawn from a lost battle and that ultimately, with obvious pride, has not protected the innocence and beauty '. Being a child means to live great adventures, perhaps just in your own garden. and read adventure stories means collecting, for a moment, the magic of that time. It all begins, therefore, with the Adventure. Metaphor, of the rest of life. Also for the endless production of Bonelli comics you could say the same: in the beginning, was the Adventure. He had a name: Gianluigi Bonelli. "(16)
"If one knows the comics also loves them, and if you have had this passion tends to always remember it fondly. Make your mark, that childhood is a brand that opens up a mental door and you are always grateful to those who have opened your that door is a door that goes beyond you then maybe growing in many ways and maybe even you can also see the behind the scenes of those comics that you love, but you still remains that enchantment and perhaps it is the fear of losing it or having the pleasure of He had and still cultivate in himself that makes him carry it behind forever. " (15)
"Someone will ask what motivates an adult to collect books and comic books and make them the subject of passionate research or even simply to read them and look at them with a sense of yearning. I think at the bottom of this slope there is a deep connection with children. it is not uncommon that every generation feel special interest in those comics who made dream in youth or adolescence ". (9)
"It is clear that they will never disferemo, because they were companions of our golden age, the beloved guests of our first room.
It was an era when there was any talk of comic books in university courses, where you do not intellectually rivalutavano forms and expressions of popular culture: it was just wonderful season of comics. The hundred meters that separated our house from newsstand were flying routes, because there waiting for us those files full of colors, mysterious adventures and funny faces. They lasted too little, those comics. We were trying to slow the reading, we returned back a few pages, we ripromettevamo to read the last story later, but within half an hour was over and the boredom of the afternoon he was back in front of us. "(13)
Sergio Bonelli rightly wrote of feeling that was born "in many the desire to draw a balance sheet of a series that often also marked the advance of their lives. This could be the reason that drives a large number of readers to produce critical issues or guides to help potential collectors to move smoothly into the ocean necklaces, numbers and special collections which, over the decades, it has been proposed Tex " . (1)
As for me, I had "from time to mind one of those ridiculous ideas that the more you think and less seem absurd, until eventually seem absurd not to try to achieve them. The idea is this:" in sixty-five life Tex have been published in hundreds of books, thousands of articles intended, in most cases, to oblivion; So, why not retrieve them and place the material in a logical order? (10) Moreover, why not make them available in other languages?
I have read many things ... but in the end remained Tex, an Italian character, which I could fathom about the history. Furthermore an important person ...
As well as Giancarlo Berardi wrote on the website of Sergio Bonelli Editore, I have always been an avid reader of Tex and maybe I began to leaf through the books before they learn to read. Me too "as a child I handled the first pocket-weekly installments, but I must say that I began to fully appreciate the format in which it is still printed, 70 years after the birth. By dint of reading and re-reading them I learned to distinguish the style of a designer from another designer, so as to recognize at a glance the stretch of Fusco, of Ticci, of Nicholas, of Letteri, of Galleppini and others. " (2)
In my time, the '70s and' 80s, the newsstands of half Italy had a 'collection' of Tex until the giant series reached the numbers between 200 and 250. So you could have a personal collection easily. The first stories I remember reading are the first strip contained in the giant book series 2a "Indian Vendetta" and the giant book (May 1968, in Italy) (the strip was entitled "death at dawn", January 1967), two collectors contained in the story "The king of the rodeo" and the giant books "Diablero" (January 1972, my mother cut me the most 'scary' parts), "The lands of the abyss" (reprint 1967), "The Lord of the Abyss" (May 1969), "In the name of the law" (August 1962) and "La cell of death "(September 1972). I remember that, in my part, for a long time, "A bell for Lucero" remained unobtainable, really rare, and I needed to complete the collection!
As said Mark M. Lupoi about another comic: "That was the explosion of, expectations day after the day of release of the new number the hours spent reading and rereading each album ...". (18)
"I had no idea how many steps could also be used for an episode. With a Spider Man register where, thanks to huge 'credits' in the same design, I became aware" of how many people intervened. I had specific preferences on some designs over others, succeeding, with an innate impulsiveness in all children, to distinguish small differences in the way you draw. "(8)
Me too, I can say, as written by Eddy Cilìa: "For many years I was able to recite all securities purchased from first to last. Tex Willer has always been there in my life. " "In those early days of life, when television still latitava, my great passion were the comics." (3)
"This series has gone through and has accompanied all my life, I remember the days and times when bought special numbers, remember the wait, sometimes lasting for years, to recover registers in which ended stories that I had only one part". (4)
Claudio Villa, one of the designers and cover artist said: "They are those things that remain inside. It is probably in a moment of your personal history, around 12, 13, 14 years when you read something and that you will plant in heart and your passions are formed, those as an adult even find yourself ". (6)
"Unlike almost all comic book heroes, Tex has come, and is pursuing still, a reverse path, both to the public and (what is perhaps more interesting) against the critics. In fact, while the common people are chafing over time, Tex is instead going the other way. on the one hand, you are making for years in an editorial level to the systematic update of creative paintings, without skimping on quality, nor with respect to the writers, nor with respect to the designers. from 'else you went multiplying in recent years entrapment at the player, diversifying the product. indubitable signs of vitality, so much so that on Tex was channeled international designers of undisputed level. this has ended up producing an inevitable positive result, namely that the player is bound to his character, he perceives an in-depth update that continues to make it appe ible. A parallel path of gradual appreciation instead of oblivion, was followed by the critics, with whom, over the decades, Tex has been gradually conquering more and more titles respect and dignity. So, if in the early sixties, at the dawn of the criticism of comics, his character entity was not even considered, then vice versa critics they have gradually realized, went beyond any doubt and sometimes even squeamishness, only to deal him more benevolently, until, today, to pay him due respect to Great Person People and following carefully the frequent and varied approaches, with public". (7)
I'm sorry that Sergio Bonelli did not live long enough (or that I have not started before) to see this sincere tribute to his work and so many others: I think that would be appreciated ...
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For notes see the Italian edition
