Il Monello
CategoriesComic magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1933
Final issueOctober 1990
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian

Il Monello (meaning The Rascal in English) was a weekly comic magazine for kids and teens published in Italy from 1933 to 1990.

History and profile

Il 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

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Gianni Bono. Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre, 2003. pp. 1343–1349.
  3. 1 2 Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno. pp. 79–90.
  4. ↑ Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0.
  5. 1 2 Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. p. 14. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
  6. ↑ Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. p. 81.
  7. ↑ 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.
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