Author: Eva Van de Wiele

Beatos, Mecachis, Percebes. Miles de años de tebeos en la biblioteca nacional de Madrid

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You missed the exposition at the National Library in Madrid? No problem! We got the opportunity to visit the exhibition with the curator Enrique Bordes who led us professionally through the 10 cabinets displaying the most wonderful strips.

¿No pudisteis ir a la exposición sobre miles de años de tebeo en Madrid? ´Pues ¡Ningún problema! Nos ha comentado todo el comisario Enrique Bordes.

Espero que os apetezca,

Eva

 

110 years of Corriere dei Piccoli in Milan

Watch Eva’s interview with Alberto Brambilla at the Milan WOW Spazio Fumetto on Corriere dei Piccoli

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Thanks to Prof. Matteo Stefanelli, one of the members of my Doctoral Advisory Committee, I got in contact with Alberto Brambilla, comic scholar, blogger and collaborator at the WOW Spazio Fumetto in Milan. Alberto walked me through their exposition celebrating the 110th birthday of Corriere dei Piccoli (CdP) and revealed how he found out which original Buster Brown strip was ‘italianized’ on the 28 December 1908 cover of the CdP . He went over different important illustrators and authors (Mussino, Rubino, Bisi and Buzzati) before the 1950s and focused mainly on children, because they are key to my/our research. The interview is in Italian but I have tried to include some information in English as well.

I hope you enjoy listening to us!

Eva

Meet Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo

When I spent my Erasmus some years ago in Turin, I fell in love with the city. Thanks to a friend I discovered the wonderful Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l’Infanzia, in short MUSLI. The museum consists of two major parts: one dedicated to school life (as you can tell from the pictures) and another one linked to children’s literature and illustration. The museum’s archive holds copies of seminal Italian kid comics such as il Giornalino della Domenica and Corriere dei Piccoli. In the last picture the guide is showing how Antonio Rubino’s early-twentieth-century character Quadratino was used to illustrate geometry to children.

Thanks to the Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo and the museum’s archive I can now study all the strips from Corriere dei Piccoli they conserve. Specifically, I’m researching child representation in CdP from 1908 till 1945. I have been spending some great weeks doing research at the MUSLI.

Eva