Cocco Bill

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Cocco Bill is a comic book by the illustrator and author Jacovitti . The parodic western series was first published in 1957 in the Italian magazine Il Giorno dei Ragazzi . A German version came on the market in 1975.

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The main character of the comic is the Wild West gunslinger Cocco Bill, who, contrary to popular Western clichés, prefers to drink chamomile tea. He mostly denies adventures that are based on conventional Western storylines, but are drawn into the absurd. Cocco Bill's world of comics is shaped by surreal characters and incidents, such as breaking through the fourth wall .

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Cocco Bill made his first appearance in 1957 in the first issue of the magazine Il Giorno dei Ragazzi , the youth supplement of the Milan daily Il Giorno . He later appeared in the Corriere dei Piccoli and Il Giornalino, among others .

Cocco Bill appeared in various other countries besides Italy. A German translation was published in 1975 and 1976 by the Swiss publisher Gevacur AG , in the form of five albums.

  • Volume 1: Cocco Bill buys 7 cold killers
    • Contains the 48 page cover story from 1968/69
  • Volume 2: Cocco Bill and the Ghost Train
    • Contains: Cocco Bill and the Ghost Train (44 p., 1969), Tierischer Errtum (2 p., 1972) and a short story about another character Jacovittis, a little man named Tarallino (2 p., 1972)
  • Volume 3: Cocco Bill against crooks and bandits
    • Contains: Cocco Bill against crooks and bandits (44 p., 1971) and Cocco Bill in Teufel und Pistolen (4 p., 1972)
  • Volume 4: Cocco Bill against crooks and midgets
    • Contains: Cocco Bill against the great stranger (24 p., 1970), Cocco Bill and the Lilliputs (20 p., 1970), Red Corn (2 p., No year. RH is a minor character from Cocco Bill), Zik Zak Zorrykid (2 p., 1972. This is not a Cocco Bill story, but a story about the title character he created in 1968.)
  • Volume 5: Cocco Bill: Red Corn and the Chickens with the Red Eye / Cocco Ding Dong! Wild West Musical in D minor by Jacovitti
    • Contains: Cocco Bill and ... and the chickens with the red eye (35 p., 1969), Cocco Dingdong! Wild West Musical in D minor by Jakovitti (14 pp., 1970)

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In 2002, the comic hit the screen as an animated series. The German-Italian co-production contained 26 episodes that were broadcast in Germany on Sat.1 on February 12, 2002 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comicguide.de: Coccobill . Retrieved January 23, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Schickowski: Coccobill. In: Alfonz Encyclopedia of Comics No. 006 May 2013.
  3. ^ Fondazione Franco Fossati: Cocco Bill.Retrieved January 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Muuta.net: Beito Jacovitti . Retrieved January 23, 2017
  5. ↑ Fernsehserien.de: Cocco Bill . Retrieved January 23, 2017