Springville is a frontier town, portrayed in the
nineteenth century, and is complementing the phase shift between the buffalo
and the railroad tracks.
In these stories there are conflicts between ranchers and
farmers, bullying and harassment of those who have contracted the guns,
difficulties in imposing the law, immigrants who barely know the language, the
last Indians destroyed by alcohol, the sheriffs honest and courageous and those
cowards who throw the star in the dust, the particular form of justice
guaranteed by bounty hunters, people arrived from there to rebuild their lives
and with something to hide. There are men who colonized the border and fail to
fit into the urban civilization, preferring to "live their own way,
according to the rules of an age that is dying."
"Welcome to Springville" was written and drawn
by Giancarlo Berardi and Renzo Calegari and was distributed on newsstands,
comic shops and bookstores from starting on November 29, 2014.
Giancarlo Berardi was born in Genoa, Italy in 1949. He
debuted collaborating on Tarzan, Sylvester and Diabolik. After graduation, he
devoted himself to comics and wrote stories for The Little Ranger, and stories
"Cursed Earth" and "Wyatt Doyle." Tiki, was his first series
with artist Ivo Milazzo, in 1976, followed in 1977 by Ken Parker.
He created Welcome to Springville, with Renzo Calegari, and
"Man of the Philippines" and "Marvin the Detective." In
1986 we wrote Dramatization Sherlock Holmes, to the slopes of Giorgio Trevisan.
He then wrote "Oklahoma", the first issue of "Maxi Tex", an
episode of Nick Raider, and the stories collected in Reverie and lights and
shadows.
After Tom's Bar and Giuli Bai & Co., in 1989, he was
among the founders of Parker Publisher, producing new episodes for the
"Ken Parker Magazine". The same formula was continued by Sergio
Bonelli Editore until 1996.
Since October 1998, Berardi has authored and edited
Julia, a monthly of Sergio Bonelli Editore. Songwriter for pleasure, in 2002 he
wrote "Echoes of Distant Lands", a CD dedicated to Ken Parker.
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