Pinky (comic)
Pinky is an Italian comic series . The draftsman Massimo Mattioli wrote and drew them from 1973 until the end of 2014. The hero of the stories is an eccentric little pink rabbit named Pinky who works as a paparazzo for a newspaper. The cartoon character first appeared in October 1973 in the Italian children's comic magazine Il giornalino .
Features of the series
The stories are drawn in a cartoon-like style, with many having elements of fantasy and science fiction . The adventures are mainly surrealistic and absurd, the joke consists of several stupid situations, mostly caused by the naivety and short-sightedness of the characters.
main characters
Pinky : a pink rabbit with a red camera around his neck, he is assigned to record sensational events and therefore has to go around the street, if he doesn't find anything he gets annoyed.
Giorgione : a fat dog with a green shirt and mostly with a blue device around his neck, and Pinky's best friend, he also works as a paparazzo for the same magazine, with rivalries between the two often emerging. Giorgione is obsessed with all kinds of food, Pinky even makes fun of his fat belly, which he doesn't particularly like.
Petulia : Pinky's friend and greatest, inseparable love. A female rabbit with blue eyes. She often comes across as naive and flirtatious, but in some episodes she seems rather ambiguous, because she seems to benefit from Pinky's obsession with her, but when he jokes that he doesn't love her, she bursts into tears . She dies in the episode called "L'invasione dei bacceloni", turning her into a zombie, but has been revived in the next few episodes.
Perry : The head of " Anmerkungia ", the editorial staff Pinky and his friends work for, a tyrannical elephant always with a cigar in his mouth.
Joe Cornacchia : A raven with a red pants and a hat, he works for the concurrent editors of Notizia , Il giornalaccio , he's not very nice, unlike Pinky, but ruthless and selfish, while he tries to capture images from Pinky to acquire or to destroy. He tries in vain to win the protagonists' trust, but they don't trust him at all.
literature
- Sergio Algozzino: Tutt'a un tratto: una storia della linea del fumetto. Tunué 2005, ISBN 88-89613-06-8 , p. 113.
Web links
- slumberland.it Pinky - Il coniglio rosa creato da Massimo Mattioli (Italian), accessed July 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ The Comics Journal , Issues 155–158; Issues 160-161, Comics Journal Incorporated 1993, p. 35.
- ^ Simone Castaldi: Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi 2010, ISBN 1-60473-777-8 , p. 55.