Maxmagnus
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Maxmagnus is a comic book character created in 1968 by the two Italian artists Max Bunker (writer) and Magnus for the magazine Eureka.
Set in a generic Middle Ages, Maxmagnus was a kind of black humour-based fable. Every character is portrayed in a negative, grotesque way: the king (Maxmagnus, whose name was composed by the nicknames of the two creators) is an avid man whose sole aim was to invent a new tax to suckblood his subjects as more as possible; the Amministratore fiduciario ("Trustful Administrator"), who is "trustful" only by name, being a true thief who, in almost every panel, manages to rob something of precious from his king and everybody at all; the queen, jealous and envious; the princess, silly and unpleasant. Finally is the people itself: forced to work harsh to pay the overwhelming taxes, anyway they spend all the time left to plot revolutions they are too inept to accomplish.
Maxmagnus was published in 1968-1970 in the form of 4/6-panels short histories, and the issued in a regular series in the 1980s, with art by Leone Cimpellin.
Maxmagnus was translated in French, Serbian and Croatian language.
