France
It is April of 1965 when the first num¬ber of Linus appears in the newspaper stands illustrating on the cover a funny kid sucking his thumb hugging his blanker. It is then three years from '68 and two passed since the American intervention in Vietnam. It is a moment of change, of contesta¬tions. The cartoon, until then, is con¬sidered a second class gender, Bur this little monthly magazine is capable of marking a run in the world of comics, not only attributing dignity, literarily and politically involved, but also revolutionizing the world of strips and making them, through the birth of new characters, valuable on different cultu¬ral levels. Gives a Stan to rye editorial:
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"This magazine is dedicated comple¬tely to the comics", And soon it is punctuated that the comics arc to be understood as those of good quality, without intellectual prejudice, mixing the modern (the Peanuts, for example) with the classics, unknown and many other. The only criteria in its selection is the quality of this "graphical litera¬ture", a neologism that with twenty years of anticipation confers a literary dignity to a gender that until rhea was treated with oblivion, Changes, the¬refore, within the juvenile imagination of the perception of the language of the comics, not anymore a periodic object, but also carrier of corners and reflections, without forgetting the
Most efficient insrrurnenr: the irony. Until 1972, year in which Giovanni Canine yielded the direction to
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