Italino

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Italino
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Kartoffel Otto and Italino
Creative team
Creator(s) Antonio Rubino

Italino is an Italian comic strip series created by Antonio Rubino.

Background[edit | edit source]

Italino was published by the children magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli from 1915, on the eve of the entry of Italy in World War, to 1919.[1] It depicts the patriotic and humorous stories of Italino, an interventionist young Trentino farmer who enjoys doing spites to his Austro-Hungarian rival Kartoffel Otto.[2][3]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Gianni Bono. Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre, 2003. p. 640. 
  2. B.P. Boschesi, Manuale dei fumetti, Mondadori, 1976, pp.27-28.
  3. Diego Leoni, Camillo Zadra. La Grande guerra: esperienza, memoria, immagini. Il Mulino, 1986. p. 420.