Rosco & Sonny

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Rosco & Sonny
Genre
    Creative team
    Writer(s) Claudio Nizzi
    Artist(s) Giancarlo Alessandrini

    Rosco & Sonny is an Italian comics series created by Claudio Nizzi and Giancarlo Alessandrini.

    Background

    The series was started in 1981 by Claudio Nizzi as the writer and the artwork of Giancarlo Alessandrini, later replaced by Rodolfo Torti and Rudy Salvagnini.[1] It was published for more than 30 years and about 280 episodes by the comics magazine Il Giornalino.[1][2] Main characters were the blond-haired Rosco and red-haired Sonny, a couple of policemen characterized by unorthodox investigative methods.[2][3] The last episode, "Missione finale", was published May 5, 2012 and ended with the couple of cops who leave the police, Sonny becoming a basketball player and Rosco becoming a writer.[1]

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carlo Scaringi (April 15, 2013). "Rosco e Sonny, due simpatici poliziotti". Af News. Retrieved 4 May 2013. 
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Luca Crovi. Tutti i colori del giallo. Marsilio, 2002. ISBN 8831779133. 
    3. ↑ Sergio Giuffrida, Riccardo Mazzoni. Giallo: poliziesco, thriller e detective story. Leonardo Arte, 1999. ISBN 8878135399. 

    Further reading

    • Luigi Marcianò, "Rosco e Sonny: due poliziotti... in pensione?", Fumetto, No. 85, March 2013, Associazione Nazionale Amici del Fumetto e dell’Illustrazione.


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