Signor Bonaventure

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Signor Bonaventura is the most famous comic figure of the Italian draftsman Sergio Tofano . Signor Bonaventura stories appeared not only as comics, but also as material for films and the stage.

Plot and characters

Signor Bonaventura is a good-natured and personable hero, clad in white harem pants and a red cloak, who starts every adventure penniless, but at the end receives a million lire . His constant companion and thus a distinguishing mark is a dachshund. Other people who regularly appear in the rhyme-like stories that do without speech bubbles include the beautiful Cece, Commissioner Sperassai, the evil Barbariccia and Bonaventura's son Pizziri. Over the years, the amount Bonaventure received changed to one billion lire.

Publication and reception

Signor Bonaventure first appeared in Corriere dei Piccoli on October 28, 1917 and, with one interruption during the Second World War , continued uninterrupted until 1953. Between 1927 and 1953 Sergio Tofano brought stories about Signor Bonaventura to the theater stage several times and filmed a Bonaventure story in 1941 under the title Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura with Paolo Stoppa as Bonaventure. In the 1960s and 1970s, other directors made further implementations for the theater. Also in the 1970s, the cartoon character Bonaventura was briefly revived by Carlo Peroni , again for Il Corriere dei piccoli . In 2000 and 2002, two animated films by Bonaventure were released, for which Tofano's son Gilberto had written the script. In addition, Bonaventura was used several times for advertising purposes.

Franco Fossati sees Signor Bonaventura in an “almost ironic counterposition” to Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 35-36, 198, 245.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 36.
  2. ↑ Sergio Tofano on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on August 7, 2011
  3. ^ Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on August 7, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Signor Bonaventura on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on August 7, 2011
  5. ↑ Gilberto Tofano in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on August 7, 2011
  6. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 35