Geppo

Geppo
Publication information
Publisher Edizioni Bianconi
Genre
Number of issues 399
Creative team
Creator(s) Giovan Battista Carpi

Geppo is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Giovan Battista Carpi.[1]

The character

Geppo is a good-hearted devil, and his naive, shy, compassionate character creates the continuing problems with his "boss", Satan.[1][2]

History

He officially debuted in 1955 in the comics magazine Volpetto, in the story "Vita nuova... all'inferno!" (trad. "A new life... in hell!"), but an early version of Geppo appeared in December 1954, in the comic book Trottolino e la "Enne" Dimensione (trad. Trottolino and the "N" Dimension), in the story "Geppo il buon diavolo" (trad. "Geppo the good devil"), with a different graphic design realized by Giulio Chierchini.[1][3][4]

From 1961, Geppo became the leading character of an eponym comic book series, published for over thirty years by Edizioni Bianconi. Pier Luigi Sangalli and later Sandro Dossi alternated as authors of the comic.[4]

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 Giovan Battista Carpi. I Classici del fumetto serie Oro - Geppo & Nonna Abelarda. Panini Comics - La Repubblica, 2005.
  2. Giovanni Scalambra (18 March 1999). "Geppo, un diavolo dal cuore d'oro". Stradanove. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  3. Franco Fossati. Dizionario dei fumetti. Vallardi A., 1996. ISBN 88-11-90456-0.
  4. 1 2 Michele Fidati (3 May 2011). "Il ritorno di Geppo di Sandro Dossi". Manga Forever. Retrieved 23 December 2011.


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