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of Andrea Virga

Author: Roberto Alfatti Appetites (1967), journalist of "Il Secolo d' Italy", an expert in corporate communications and political with a passion for popular culture (novels, comics, etc..) manages the cultural weblog The eminent dignity of the provisional , which collects his numerous articles on these issues.

Edition: self ( ilmiolibro.it ), I libri de «Il  Fondo», Roma 2011.

Recensione : Questo agile ma corposo volumetto – pubblicato per I libri de « Il Fondo », la rivista web dello scrittore anticonformista Miro Renzaglia – è costituito da una raccolta di articoli scritti da Alfatti Appetiti per «Il Secolo» e «Area» tra il 7 giugno 2006 e il 2 dicembre 2010, introdotta dal fumettista Roberto Recchioni e prefata dallo scrittore di fantasy Errico Passaro , tutti affini a quella destra libertaria che non rinnega il fascismo, rivendicandone la forza rivoluzionaria e l’eredità culturale. Negli articoli, the author ranges from the Italian comics Bonelli Iran Persepolis from Andy Capp to Kriminal by Max Bunker to Hugo Pratt , so the final result is an adventurous journey between authors, characters, stories, themes of comics, this large popular literature.

Alfatti Appetites states to move against the flow, in response to the widespread clichés, the most popular in decades past but still in vogue , which would see the comics as useless and indeed harmful for young people, and however minor literature, consumption. They recalled the severe and angry glances of the censors, they were sober academics, outraged at the thought that you might prefer Tex Manzoni, or bigoted Democrat leaders, concerned about the lack of morality of comic books, or even grim Communist officials, suspicious by nature politically disengaged (and thus any and therefore "fascist") of the "stripes."

Of the three charges, the author accepts the second, but changes sign: the comic strip as a place of moral criticism all'ipocrita dell'Italietta postwar middle-class Democrat. As regards the first, it's all a network of plots, which he traces in his articles, between high literature, especially novels ( Verne, Stevenson , London, Salgari , Conrad, Jünger, Tolkien ) once snubbed and now also recognized and appreciated by critics, and popular literature, of which the comic is one of the larger funds, but not a danger that the kids away from reading, but rather an incentive to read. Is much larger then the emphasis on the relationship between comics and politics, which is certainly the leitmotif of the whole book.

Alfatti Appetites shows that is not true that the comic is, as literature Popular, traditionally leftist, as claimed recently, and remember instead the suspicions and difficulties that surrounded the authors and characters, often too ambiguous and not enough committed to the critics of the Party. And telling the great comic characters, not to dwell on how many figures so easily attractive to the imaginary "right" and not just for those ' anarcofascismo that seems to inspire the romantic exploits of many heroes of paper and ink - by Corto Maltese sailor Amazonian adventurer Mister No - but also for the 'unconventionality Gascon of certain anti-heroes' losers' and' antisocial ' by the friendly drunken Andy Capp, the ramshackle Group TNT?

a cultural-political analysis is not limited to seize these suggestions - which, however, constitute more than a childish "collection of action figures" of the opposite color, however, reconstruct the different characters and stories of good fortune - but she goes further, to say that comics can be so pure (and legitimate!) disengagement and escape, unpretentious pedagogical or demagogic, but also be a means to explore important issues. Some articles are particularly indicative in this respect: such as that Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's comic criticizing the state and society of Iran, or one dedicated to Mater Morbi , the comic book Dylan Dog (the detective of the nightmare created by Tiziano Sclavi ) which addresses the difficult and problematic question euthanasia, even openly criticized by the Undersecretary of Health Eugenia Roccella (which shows that now even the comic did not go unnoticed).

In summary, while not a question of a systematic (but why would it necessarily be so?) comic tells the crews we are, wandering, describes the highlights diverse world of comics, is defending his libertarian and carefree nature, is recalling its noble origins, in modern popular literature, and also claiming a vocation also cultural criticism, and - why not? - Militant. It is precisely under these circumstances, which matures and gains weight the final appeal that the author addresses the readers in a recent interview .

"An appeal, however, I like to say to my peers: do read the comics to your children. I have three, male, and represent an unassailable alibi to fill the shelves of old and new comics. Introduce into the magical world of speech bubbles. Whether bonellidi o manga poco importa. Comprate gli albi in edicola o almeno tirateli fuori dagli scatoloni che le vostre signore hanno destinato alla cantina e inevitabilmente alla muffa. Tornate a Topolino , se è il caso, che funziona sempre. Non vergognatevi di questa vostra passione, siatene orgogliosi. Non arrendetevi di fronte all’incedere dei giochi elettronici. Resistere. Resistere. Resistere. Che non è solo un “verbo” della sinistra».