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1935: Red Barry arrives - Jim Rosso

From No 37, July 30, 1935, The Laughter hosts a batch of terrific comics Americans capable - on paper - to give both really annoyed The Adventurous that The Bold .

The most important thing is
Jim Rosso, almost literal translation of Red Barry of Will Gould, the agency still KFS. This is the production boards Sunday (Sunday pages), published in full from the beginning (February 3, 1935).

The daily strips will be published in 1937, up The Adventurous of Nerbini , that the character ribattezzerà Bob Star .

Jim Barry Red-Red is a blend of violence because of this, a few years later, has so many problems, including at home, to be forced to close prematurely. Laughter not think any way to soften those elements. Indeed, the comic strip by Will Gould, presented to the Italian readers in a highly abrupt, marked a change so sudden and unexpected themes and tone of the magazine, that it is indeed shocking.

The next reference to Red Barry is Dick Tracy's Chester Gould (no relation between the two authors), considered one of the top comic expressionist of American comic art.

Much of the effect of "cruelty", as Chester Gould in Will, is given by the contrast between the picture sometimes "pupazzettistico" character, always sapidissimo, and made explicit scenes of violence.

Anche certi temi forti (nelle giornaliere desterà scalpore quello della pena di morte , per esempio) sono affrontati senza alcun tentativo di addolcirli.

Red Barry è amatissimo, più che dai lettori comuni, dagli autori più avanzati di tutto il mondo, specie dalla generazione che lo conosce proprio in questi anni e su queste pagine: ad esempio Damiano Damiani , che lo reinterpreterà in modo originale quando (nel 1945 e dintorni) il futuro regista will be part of the history of "The Ace of Spades ", which belong to the young Hugo Pratt.

Echoes of character, a comic cursed for excellence, are found in the authors apparently very far from the genre, such as French Georges Pichard .

The "lost treasure" The Laughter dell'introvabile feeds his own myth: it is a magazine for insiders work "a popular weekly. Sales, in fact, never took off in earnest. Contributes to the relative lack of success the lack of polychromy, at least on the front page. Why is this unfortunate choice? The kiosks are gleaming with daring colors and hypnotics, which are a marker unique aesthetics thirties. Here, however, remains at a melancholy two-tone ...