Quadratino

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Quadratino is the name of the eponymous character of a comic by the Italian draftsman Antonio Rubino . The comic appeared in the Italian children's newspaper Corriere dei Piccoli from 1910 to 1911 .

Plot and characters

The main character is a young boy with a square skull named Quadratino ("Small Square"); his mother's name is Geometria, his grandmother is Matematica and his aunt is called Algebra. The pattern of action is always similar: Quadratino leaves family supervision in the first of six equally sized panels and then goes through an adventure that gives his head a different geometric shape . In the last panel of one of its female members brings his head with a ruler , angle , protractor , compass , slide rule or solder of a rectangle , hexagon , octagon , rhombus or circular (here, to the difficulty of squaring the circle alluded: Pronta corre la nonnetta, ea far calcoli si affretta, chè del cerchio è cosa dura ottener la quadratura ) back to its original form. There are no speech bubble dialogs, rather the images are commented on in rhymes below the respective panel.

Publication and reception

Quadratino had its first appearance as an illustration of the poem La tragica istoria del triangolo e del quadrato. By Franco Bianchi in the Corriere dei Piccoli on November 8, 1909. Quadratino first appeared as a comic on August 7, 1910, also in the Corriere dei Piccoli . A total of seven stories had appeared in loose succession by 1911. The last story was published in the fourth issue of the 1911 volume by Corriere dei Piccoli .

According to Franco Fossati, Quadratino can be viewed as a “typical work of his youth” by Rubino.

literature

  • Matteo Stefanelli: Quadratino. In: Paul Gravett (ed.) And Andreas C. Knigge (transl.): 1001 comics that you should read before life is over . Edition Olms, Zurich 2012, p. 39.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Quadratino on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on November 18, 2019
  2. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 214.