The stories in this book are set in Springville, a small city in the
West, we meet a host of characters: no heroes, but ordinary people, men and
women like those we meet every day in the most common situations. Giancarlo
Berardi, here demonstrates more than ever his unique ability to bring together
the two conditions often irreconcilable, realism and adventure. His companion is
the exceptional Renzo Calegari, an artist who is able to explore and illustrate
with great finesse the emotions and feelings of the different characters.
This book was published in 2000 by Le Mani Microart's in
Recco, Italy, with 112 pages.
Giancarlo Berardi was born in Genoa, Italy on November
15, 1949 and made his debut in the comics working, among other things, on a number
of "Tarzan", "Eve" and "Diabolik" comics. After graduation, he fully devoted
his life to comics writing stories for "The Little Ranger", "Cursed
Earth" and "Wyatt Doyle". He published in the comic series
"Collana Rodeo". "Tiki", his first series in tandem with artist
Ivo Milazzo, in 1976, followed in 1977 by “Ken Parker”, his most successful
character, exported to thirteen countries worldwide. The same year he created
"Welcome to Springville", which was drawn by the designer Renzo
Calegari. Next was "The Man of the Philippines" and “Marvin Detective”.
In 1986 he dramatized episodes of "Sherlock Holmes", illustrated by
Giorgio Trevisan. Then he wrote "Oklahoma!", for the Tex series, an
episode of “Nick Raider” (#18: "Mosaic For a Crime") and the short
stories collected in "Reverie" and "Lights and Shadows."
After giving a start to "Tom's Bar" and "Giuli Bai &
Co.", in 1989, he was among the founders of the “Parker Publisher” that in
addition to reprinting the old episodes of the character, it produces new ones
for the "Ken Parker Magazine". The same formula is continued by
Sergio Bonelli Editore until 1996; after which the series goes back to the
format "Bonelli", semi-annually, and it closes in January 1998. In
October of that year, Berardi is the author and editor of Julia, a new monthly magazine Sergio Bonelli Editore. Among the
many honors assigned to him, were the Oesterheld Award, the Award Internacional
de Barcelona Comics, the 'Haxtur' award and the Yellow Kid.
Renzo Calegari was born in Bolzaneto, Genoa, Italy on
September 5, 1933. He starts working in the comic book world with Studio D’Ami
and, in 1955, draws "I tre Bill" (written by Gianluigi Bonelli) and
"El Kid", together with Gino D’Antonio. He later creates "Big
Davy" for Edizioni Araldo, but he becomes officially recognized as master
of the western genre with "Storia del West", where he starts working,
always with D’Antonio, in 1964. After a brief period of comic book inactivity,
due to his focusing on politics, Calegari returns to his beloved West with
"Welcome to Springville", a miniseries written by Giancarlo Berardi
for "Skorpio", later reprinted in three volumes by L’Isola Trovata (and, more recently, in
a volume published by Le Mani). He
did other works for the "Orient Express" magazine and with "Il
Giornalino", for which Calegari creates the series "Boone" and
"Gente di frontiera". For Tex, Calegari debuted with "La ballata
di Zeke Colter" (penned by Nizzi), printed on Almanacco del West 1994. His
art appears in "Bandidos!", a one-shot published in the summer of
2007 and scripted by Gino D'Antonio.
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