Books by Benito Jacovitti

BOOKS OF JACOVITTI

The golden years of the Vitt diary

Data 324 illustrated pages bound (cur. Fofi G., Saleppichi A.)
Year 2006
Editor New Balances

The golden years, the sixties and seventies of the legendary Vitt Diary are traced through the cartoons and stories of Benito Jacovitti and some of the texts, sometimes by the author, from Sergio Zavoli to Indro Montanelli, which accompanied them. An opportunity to retrace even a part of the social history, customs and culture of our country. In fact, the amused and amusing, but cultured and punctual comment by Goffredo Fofi, which accompanies the reader on this journey through memory, plays on the thread of memory, emotion and nostalgia. To underline the importance of the Vitt Diary contributes the intervention of Gianni Brunoro who reconstructs the affirmation in the same years of a new relationship between comics and the school with the birth of several comic diaries, from that of BC to Disney, of which features and illustrations are shown ...

Jacovitti fantastorie. Science fiction, fantasy and other space-time fantasies

Author Jacovitti Benito
Data 174 illustrated pages, paperback (cur. Brunoro G.)
Year 2005
Editor New Balances

In this volume some stories directly ascribable to science fiction are taken up, both "related" to it and to fantasy in a broad sense. They were created by Jacovitti starting from 1945: "Pippo nella Luna", dating back to the time of his collaboration with "Il Vittorioso", up to 1965; "Microciccio Spaccavento", dating back to "Il Giorno dei Ragazzi", that is the initial and final part of a parable in which the humorist often returned to these issues. In all these stories, the author shows that he knows how to juggle with extreme ease, taking cues both from more or less famous adventure science fiction comics, and from famous films, belonging to the "genre" ...

Nosy Tom, detective journalist. Mission dance

Author Jacovitti Benito
Data 157 illustrated pages, paperback (cur. Brunoro G.)
Year 2005
Editor New Balances

Tom Ficcanaso, as his name implies, is a journalist who cannot avoid meddling in the affairs of others. The editor of the newspaper sends him to the four corners of the world and even outside, "into space". In the extraordinary Jacobite universe, Tom Ficcanaso had a less ephemeral life than other characters. Between 1957 and 1966 he was the protagonist of 11 episodes. In this volume the episodes from the second to the sixth are repeated in their exact sequence ...

YACOVITTI IN YELLOW - Detective, noir and hard-boiled by the most surreal Italian humorist . Known as the brilliant inventor of the western parody CoconutbillHowever, Benito Jacovitti preceded fashions, hybridizing the "genres" and also attending the shades of yellow. His detective, noir and hard boiler are black stories, full of disenchantment, characterized by a hilarious yet often fierce sadism, which only the mocking narrative and the grotesque setting redeem from an aura of cynical hardness ...

The sign of Zorrykid - The thing ... but yes, California, once upon a time, was (badly) governed by Don Pedro Magnapoco, a not so handsome fellow, a little tyrant and a little fetent; from his very raunchy daughter Alonza Alonza, equipped with a stainless steel backhand, and from the rogue captain of the guards Perfidia Malandero. To survive such an unfortunate gang, the inhabitants of the thing ... of California could hope for only one person: Zorrykid, 'eI liberador "with the hobby" de sciver zete da por todos ". the features of Kid Paloma, an idle "Segnorito" dedicated to flamenco who lives with his grandfather and his faithful butler ...

Jacovitti's cards. With gadgets - After having produced, together with Marcello Marchesi in 1977, "Kamasutra", a dazed parody of the most talked-about erotic essay of all time, Jacovitti continued to exercise his humorous skills on the subject of sex. Without accepting blackmail from the children's press, which also gave him fame, he preferred to continue his mockingly anarchist battle, agreeing to collaborate with initiatives that were not at all conventional. Among others, the 56 images designed for this deck of playing cards, commissioned by a collector and never published ...

In praise of Jacovitti's medicine. Author: Vittorio Sgarbi - The volume collects a vast series of humorous cartoons that Benito Jacovitti dedicated to the world of medicine. The famous draftsman has repeatedly drawn his gaze to the oddities of the modern followers of Aesculapius (and their patients) and portrayed them in the tables that give life to the five chapters of the book: In praise of medicine, Proverbs of health, 17 clinical cases and 27 specialists, the great medical specialists and the doctor's alphabet ...

Mandrago! Talking Pipipi! - The volume offers two comic stories animated by the unmistakable characters of Jacovitti. The first is called Mandrago! The second talkative Pipipi!

Pinocchio of Collodi illustrated by Jacovitti - The volume proposes an edition of Collodi's famous masterpiece accompanied by illustrations by Benito Jacovitti. The text of the novel in full version is accompanied by lively and colorful tables that animate the story of the misadventures of the famous puppet and the other characters ...

Jacovittissimo. Miniantologia - The characters of Jacovitti's comic fiction were, in order of time, Pippo, Pertica and Palla who in fact opened this anthology; to leave space immediately afterwards to others (and others) of the multifaceted Jacovittian production. From the illustration of other people's books to the label, from the calendar to the poster, from the caricature to the playing cards, from the postcard to the cartoons; miniantology does its best to really be such, even if the comic book obviously takes precedence ...