Little Nemo, the main fictional character by Winsor McCay (1871-1934), appeared in the “New York Herald” on October 15, 1905. Although a comic strip, it was far from a simple children’s fantasy; it was often dark, surreal, threatening and even violent. The strip related the dreams of a little boy:[…]
Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Scottish character, created by Carl Barks, who first appeared in the story “Christmas on Bear Mountain” published in “Dell Comics Four Color Comics” #178 in December 1947. Over the decades, Scrooge has emerged from being just a supporting character of the Donald[…]
The residence can accommodate up to 4 people and is located in the hills behind the Villa Comics , set among olive trees and an extensive planting of pear trees. It is the result of the recent restructuring of a charming cottage that consists of studio and two-room KEN PARKER[…]
The Spirit (Denny Colt) is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 in “The Spirit Section”, the colloquial name given to a seven-page insert into American Sunday-newspaper comics sections. In the 2000s, following Eisner’s death, the Spirit appears in comic books published[…]
“The Adventures of Tintin” (“Les Aventures de Tintin”) is a series of comic strip narratives created by Georges Remi under the pseudonym Hergé (a transposing of his initials, R G, as pronounced in French). They first appeared in French in a children’s supplement to the Belgian newspaper “Le Vingtième Siècle”[…]
Dylan Dog was created by Tiziano Sclavi for the Italian publishing house “Sergio Bonelli Editore” or, in English, “Bonelli Comics”. “Dark Horse Comics” has published the English version of Dylan Dog. Dylan Dog is a penniless nightmare investigator who defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism[…]
Spider-Man is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. First appearing in “Amazing Fantasy #15” (Aug. 1962), he has become one of the world’s most popular, enduring and recognizable superheroes. When Spider-Man first saw print in the 1960s, teenage characters[…]
Il residence può ospitare fino a tre persone ed è situato in collina alle spalle del Villa Comics, immerso tra alberi secolari di ulivo e una estesa piantagione di peri. È il frutto della recente ristrutturazione di un incantevole casolare che consta del monolocale KEN PARKER e del bilocale BATMAN[…]
Corto Maltese, a sailor-adventurer created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt, debuted in the serial “Una Ballata del Mare Salato” (Ballad of the Salt Sea, 1967) concerning smugglers and pirates in the WW1-era Pacific Islands. The comics have been translated in many languages outside Italy. Corto Maltese (possibly derived[…]