Bobo (Italian comics) explained

Bobo
Genre:	Satiric, autobiographical

Bobo is the title character of an eponym Italian comic strip created in 1979 by Sergio Staino. It was referred as a symbol of a whole generation.^{[1] [2]}

The first comic strip of Bobo was created October 10, 1979 and was published in Linus in December of the same year.^[3] The comics later appeared in a large number of magazines and newspapers, including L'Unità, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Il Messaggero, L'espresso, Panorama, Cuore, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni.

Plot

The comic strip is pretty autobiographical, and the title character, a middle-aged former Communist average man struggling with family, politics and hobbies, is a self-portrait of the same author.^{[1] [4]}

Realses

The same Staino starred in a live-action transposition of the comics, hosted in a segment of the television variety Drive In, in the 1984/1985 season.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Franco Fossati, I grandi eroi del fumetto, Gramese, 1990, pp.51-52.
2. [Umberto Eco]
3. News: Generazione Bobo. 31 January 2013. Corriere Fiorentino.
4. Stephen Gundle, Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991, Duke University Press, 2000, pp.197-202.
5. Roberto Poppi, I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri, Gremese Editore, 2002, p.337.