Il Vittorioso

Il Vittorioso (Italian for "The Victorious") was a weekly comic magazine published in Italy from 1937 to 1966.

History and profile

The magazine was born on the initiative of the Azione Cattolica association as a catholic response to the secular comics, with the aim of offering to their young audience comics that had positive moral values and which were respectful of Catholic doctrine.[1][2] Enrico Basari’s comic format of Beowulf was published in the magazine in 1941.[3] It was the first comic format of the work.[3]

Il Vittorioso had a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 200,000 copies per week, even thanks to its distribution channel which included parishes and catholic educational entities.[1][2]

The magazine included only works by Italian cartoonists, and it launched the career of several of them, notably Benito Jacovitti.[1][2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 María José Gómez Calderón (November 2007). "Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings". Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 55. Retrieved 3 December 2014.