Valentina De Poli (born 2 September 1968) is an Italian journalist and editor.
She was born on 2 September 1968 in Milan. She was the second woman to become editor of the weekly Topolino comic book, taking over in 2007 from Claretta Muci, [1] and holding the role until 2018. She had started contributing to the magazine in 1988. Between 2001 and 2007, she was also the editor of the comic book series W.I.T.C.H. .
Romano Scarpa was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.
Giovan Battista Carpi was a prolific Italian comics artist, illustrator, and teacher from Genoa.
Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa, was an Italian film and theatre actress. In her 50 years spanning career, she appeared in films of Italian and international directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut, Terry Gilliam, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and others.
Italian comics, also known as fumetto, plural form fumetti, are comics that originate in Italy. The most popular Italian comics have been translated into many languages. The term fumetto refers to the distinctive word balloons that contain the dialogue in comics.
Marco Rota is an Italian Disney comic artist who served as editor-in-chief of Disney Italia from 1974 to 1988.
Valentina is an Italian comic strip series, created in 1965 by the Italian artist Guido Crepax and concluded in 1996.
The International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources (I.N.D.U.C.K.S.) or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney Universe comics ever printed in the world, created and maintained by both amateurs and professionals. It is an international project which provides indexes of around 170,000 Disney comic publications worldwide. It is distributed with its own licence.
Silvia Ziche is an Italian comic book artist and writer, known for her work in Disney comics for the Italian comic digest Topolino.
Elisa Di Francisca is an Italian former foil fencer, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2010 and three-time European champion. She won the 2010–11 World Cup series and has seven World Cup victories to her name. With the Italian team, she was Olympic champion in 2012, five-time World champion and seven-time European champion.
Topolino is an Italian digest-sized comic series featuring Disney comics. The series has had a long running history, first appearing in 1932 as a comics magazine. Since 2013, it has been published by Panini Comics.
The Corriere dei Piccoli, later nicknamed Corrierino, was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a regular feature of publishing comic strips.
Guido Crepas, better known by his pen name Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of erotism. His work was often politically motivated too, inspired by his Communist convictions. A film based on his work called Baba Yaga, featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.
Notable events of 1957 in comics.
Nicolò Carosio was an Italian sport journalist and commentator.
Guido Martina was an Italian comic writer, documentarist and author. Martina is well known for his Disney comics stories, including the first of the "Disney Parodies" story "L'inferno di Topolino", and the creation of Paperinik, Donald Duck's superhero alter ego.
Donald Duck and Other Adventures, also known as Paperino giornale, is a 1937–40 weekly Italian Disney comics magazine published by Mondadori. The comic was launched by Federico Pedrocchi, Mondadori's art director, as a companion to the existing weekly Topolino magazine. Paperino published 149 issues from 30 December 1937 to 26 October 1940, at which point it was merged with Topolino.
Gaetano Vitelli is an Italian cartoonist who, along with Giove Toppi and Antonio Burattini, was one of the first to make a Mickey Mouse comic strip in Italy.
Alex Bertani is an Italian editor who is the current director of the Italian comic book series Topolino. Previously he worked for Panini Comics.
Pier Lorenzo De Vita was an Italian comic book artist.