‘My Comics History’ Archives
My Comics Story pt.5: Manga
Read previous parts of this series of articles here. One summer in the mid-90s, my brother and I were in Taiwan for about a month. We didn't have much to do, but that year we had a couple of friends like us, living in Milano with Taiwanese origins. So we hung out with them. Their chinese was better than ours, so they could read chinese comics. [...]
My Comics story pt.4 – DC Comics
his is part 4 of this series, please click here for previous parts. When I started reading Marvel comics, There wasn't a lot of DC comics being published. There was an athology which reprinted some second tier series, and an old series printing old Batman comics that nobody wanted to read. Then one day this last old series decided to skip [...]
My Comics story pt.3 – Image Comics
This is part 3 of My Comics Story, click here for the previous parts. After we started buying Marvel comics, Star Comics (one of the italian publishers of Marvel material) started publishing Image comics. The art was pretty, and me and my brother jumped on the Image wagon. The first title was Spawn, which included Savage Dragon. Spawn was a [...]
My Comics story pt.2 – Marvel Comics
Check part 1 of my Comics Story here. While I was still reading Italian comics, I started reading Marvel comics. I remember once I was on the metro, and I bumped into some guy I barely knew. He had an issue of Spider-Man (Uomo-Ragno in italian), and he started talking about it. He went into this propaganda promoting Superheroes against Italian [...]
My Comics story pt.1 – The Italian Comics
I was born and raised in Italy, and I started reading comics in 1990, when a classmate lent me an issue of Dylan Dog, a very popular italian comic. Before then I would read the occasional Disney comics I found in various places, like the doctor's waiting room, or from friends: Topolino (Mickey Mouse), Paperino (Donald Duck) etc... But Dylan Dog [...]