Rosco & Sonny

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Rosco & Sonny
Creative team
Written byClaudio Nizzi
Artist(s)Giancarlo Alessandrini

Rosco & Sonny is an Italian comics series created by Claudio Nizzi and Giancarlo Alessandrini.

Background[]

The series was started in 1981 by Claudio Nizzi as the writer and the artwork of Giancarlo Alessandrini, later replaced by Rodolfo Torti and Rudy Salvagnini.[1] It was published for more than 30 years and about 280 episodes by the comics magazine Il Giornalino.[1][2] Main characters were the blond-haired Rosco and red-haired Sonny, a couple of policemen characterized by unorthodox investigative methods.[2][3] The last episode, "Missione finale", was published May 5, 2012 and ended with the couple of cops who leave the police, Sonny becoming a basketball player and Rosco becoming a writer.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Carlo Scaringi (April 15, 2013). "Rosco e Sonny, due simpatici poliziotti". Af News. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b Luca Crovi (2002). Tutti i colori del giallo. Marsilio, 2002. ISBN 8831779133.
  3. ^ Sergio Giuffrida, Riccardo Mazzoni (1999). Giallo: poliziesco, thriller e detective story. Leonardo Arte, 1999. ISBN 8878135399.

Further reading[]

  • Luigi Marcianò, "Rosco e Sonny: due poliziotti... in pensione?", Fumetto, No. 85, March 2013, Associazione Nazionale Amici del Fumetto e dell’Illustrazione.


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