Domesticating and glocalising the dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and its sequels in early Italian Corriere dei Piccoli (1909-1914)
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- Eva Van de Wiele (UGent)
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- COMICS (Children in Comics: An intercultural history from 1865 to today)
- Abstract
- The editors of Corriere dei Piccoli (CdP), an Italian comics magazine for children launched in December 1908, followed the New York Herald’s every step. In envisioning the creation of a children’s supplement, Italy’s biggest newspaper understood the enthralment and economic potential of the Sunday pages and introduced its Italian readers to various American serial figures. One of those recurring characters, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, was the most heavily reformatted on CdP’s centre pages in 1913. The drastic flattening of McCay’s vertical appeal to a double page put the graphic designer to the limits of his possibilities. This domestication of the American format is a consequence of the pedagogical ideas and moralistic intentions behind the bourgeois magazine, and Italian style and reading preferences related to readership. Still, Little Nemo inspired the autochthonous authors to create their own versions of McCay’s serial narrative. I uncover the actualizations of the serial figure by three Italian comic artists, unveiling the many moralistic and propagandistic incarnations of Little Nemo. Although heavily reformatted, Little Nemo’s legacy in CdP went further than any other Sunday page.
- Les éditeurs du Corriere dei Piccoli (CdP), un magazine italien de bandes dessinées pour enfants lancé en décembre 1908, ont suivi le New York Herald dans toutes ses démarches. En envisageant la création d'un supplément pour enfants, le plus grand journal italien a compris l'attrait et le potentiel économique des Sunday pages et a fait découvrir à ses lecteurs divers personnages de séries américaines. Un de ces personnages récurrents, Little Nemo de Winsor McCay, a été reformaté dans CdP en 1913, mettant le graphiste à rude épreuve. Cette domestication du format américain est une conséquence des idées pédagogiques et des intentions moralisatrices du magazine bourgeois, ainsi que du style et des préférences de lecture italiens liées au lectorat. Pourtant, Little Nemo a aussi inspiré les auteurs autochtones à créer leurs propres versions du récit sériel de McCay. J’étudie ici les actualisations de la figure sérielle par trois dessinateurs italiens de BD, dévoilant les nombreuses incarnations moralistes et propagandistes de Little Nemo. Bien que fortement reformaté, l'héritage de Little Nemo dans CdP est allé plus loin que toute autre Sunday page.
- Keywords
- comics magazines, serial figures, McCay, Little Nemo, domestication, glocalisation, Corriere dei Piccoli, Antonio Rubino, Attilio Mussino
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- Van de Wiele, Eva. “Domesticating and Glocalising the Dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and Its Sequels in Early Italian Corriere Dei Piccoli (1909-1914).” INTERFACES (DIJON), vol. 46, 2021, doi:10.4000/interfaces.3405.
- APA
- Van de Wiele, E. (2021). Domesticating and glocalising the dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and its sequels in early Italian Corriere dei Piccoli (1909-1914). INTERFACES (DIJON), 46. https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.3405
- Chicago author-date
- Van de Wiele, Eva. 2021. “Domesticating and Glocalising the Dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and Its Sequels in Early Italian Corriere Dei Piccoli (1909-1914).” INTERFACES (DIJON) 46. https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.3405.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Van de Wiele, Eva. 2021. “Domesticating and Glocalising the Dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and Its Sequels in Early Italian Corriere Dei Piccoli (1909-1914).” INTERFACES (DIJON) 46. doi:10.4000/interfaces.3405.
- Vancouver
- 1.Van de Wiele E. Domesticating and glocalising the dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and its sequels in early Italian Corriere dei Piccoli (1909-1914). INTERFACES (DIJON). 2021;46.
- IEEE
- [1]E. Van de Wiele, “Domesticating and glocalising the dreamy : McCay’s Little Nemo and its sequels in early Italian Corriere dei Piccoli (1909-1914),” INTERFACES (DIJON), vol. 46, 2021.
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