Skorpio (magazine)

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Skorpio
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Cover of Skorpio featuring La Saga del Sur by Arturo Del Castillo and Ricardo Barreiro, June 1994.
CategoriesComic magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Year founded1975
CountryArgentina
Italy
LanguageSpanish
Italian

Skorpio is a weekly anthology comic magazine published in Argentina since 1974 to 1996 and in Italy since 1977 onwards.

History and profile[]

Skorpio was created in July 1974 by Ediciones Record, with Alfredo Scutti serving as editorial director and Juan Zanotto as artistic supervisor. It is named after a character created by writer Eugenio Zappietro (under the pen name Ray Collins) and artist Ernesto R. Garcia Seijas.[1] Because of the artistic freedom it granted, the magazine attracted all the major Argentine comic artists of the time.[2]

The magazine got an immediate success. Notable series which were introduced in the magazine include Bárbara by Ricardo Barreiro and Juan Zanotto, Yor the Hunter by Zappietro and Zanotto, and  [it] by Carlos Trillo and Enrique Breccia. Skorpio also republished and repopulized Argentine classic comics such as Mort Cinder, Sergeant Kirk and El Eternauta.[1]

The magazine eventually closed in Argentina in 1996.[2]

The Italian version[]

The Italian version of the magazine was launched in Italy in 1977 by Lancio Editore (now ), the same publisher of Lanciostory.[3] Initially devoted almost entirely to the Argentine productions, since the early 1980s the Italian magazine gradually started including Italian and French-Belgian comics, and more rarely also American comics.[3]

A weekly collection series, Raccolta Skorpio, is published from 2000.[3]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Franco Fossati. "Skorpio". Dizionario Illustrato del Fumetto. Mondadori, 1992. ISBN 8804355441.
  2. ^ a b John A. Lent. Cartooning in Latin America. Hampton Press, 2005. ISBN 1572735600.
  3. ^ a b c Gianni Bono. "Skorpio". Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre, 2003.
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