The character of Buffalo Bill is proposed by Luigi
Grecchi Corrado Zucca, then director of the intrepid, since at that time
happens to be looking on the market two western characters that went very well,
Tex and The Little Sheriff. So, in '51 Buffalo Bill, which has some
similarities to the real person, the physical appearance and the nickname even
if the historical figure illustrates two effe in the name Buffalo. He will
explain later Grecchi, who decided the proper diction to the English
terminology Italian little used in everyday language of that time.
The stories are intertwined with love affairs, touching
family problems between parents and children, and religious problems between
feuding families are much more similar to rural Italy that the western border,
also the characters and the same Buffalo Bill live brackets dedicated to love,
essential component to attract a female audience.
In the work of Carlo Cossio we find an artistic quality
of all respect even if the historical and environmental documentation is sadly
lacking. The subjects are full of naivety, without a precise location to the
historical period, full of too didactic texts that have imposed a forced
realization of cartoons and peppered with a constant presence of children
seeking morbidly tears at the end of episode.
The reader today is much more picky about the clothing of
the characters, the Indian customs and characteristics of the weapons (those
holsters imaginative that moved along the belt in the body-to-hand fights were
too high for a gunman but us guys then liked a lot), to landscapes that are
only distantly related to the true west, reflecting a much more padano
environment where the canyons are more similar to the Apennines and the Alps.
Moreover, even the other comics of the period were similar: the designers to
make up for the lack documentation will do the best they could, (the same
Aurelio Galleppini revealed that, to achieve the Tex environments, was inspired
by the mountains of Trentino where he was going on vacation).
We must recognize that despite the flaws on the
documentation, still remains a good example of western comics.
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