Il Monello (meaning The Rascal in English) was a weekly comic magazine for kids and teens published in Italy from 1933 to 1990.
Categories | Comic magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Founded | 1933 |
Final issue | October 1990 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
History and profile
editIl Monello was founded in 1933[1] by the Del Duca brothers and initially offered only works by Italian cartoonists, introducing several American comic series just in 1936.[2][3] The magazine was published weekly[4] and was based in Milan.[5]
Considered a mix between Corriere dei Piccoli and Jumbo,[6] Il Monello ceased publication in 1939[5] and many of its interrupted series continued on another Del Duca's magazine for kids, Intrepido.[2] After a 14-year hiatus, Il Monello resumed publication in 1953, achieving a significant commercial success thanks to adventure series such as Forza John and Rocky Rider and to several humorous comic strips, notably Pedrito el Drito and Superbone.[2][3] Since the early 1970s the magazine targeted a more mature audience and started including regular columns on sport, music and entertainment.[2] The weekly had a circulation of 231,992 copies in 1984.[7]
In 1989 it changed its name on Monello Okay!, then it finally closed in October 1990.[2]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Steven Heller (19 July 2012). "Italy's Fumetti: Curiously Sophisticated Pulp Comics". Printmag. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Gianni Bono. Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre, 2003. pp. 1343–1349.
- ^ a b Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno. pp. 79–90.
- ^ Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0.
- ^ a b Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. p. 14. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
- ^ Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. p. 81.
- ^ Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- Media related to Il Monello at Wikimedia Commons