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Ochre del Buono, Linus continues on publishing mainly comics: Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Valentina, Li'! Abner and Fearles Fosdick, Dick Tracy, Doonesbury, Be and Wizard of ld, Corto Maltese. The American comics are translated in a magisterial way, working cleverly on the word games of Pogo and on the striking jokes of Peanuts or of Mago di Id. The direc¬tion of Oresre del Buono carries in the magazine the heat of politics and of cultural debares within and outside of the left, the magazine becomes rich of names of great prestige: Lictta Tornabuoni,
Saverio Tutino, Pietro Banas, Alberto Arbasino, Beniarnino Placido just to name some of them. Not just comics, with the years Linus changes format and is enriched with names that expand from the comic strips world to that of literature, televi¬sion and music. Gino and Michele, Sergio Sraino, Michele Serra, Davide Riondino, Stefano Benni, ElleKappa, Alessandro Baricco, arc today the names of rhe writers in the pages of rhis magazine that at forty years from irs birth, continues on being a precious instrument of intellectual encounter. Under the theme of comics.