Zio Boris
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Written by | Alfredo Castelli |
Artist(s) | Carlo Peroni Daniele Fagarazzi |
Zio Boris ("Uncle Boris" in Italian) is the title character of an Italian humorous comic strip series created by Alfredo Castelli as writer and by Carlo Peroni as artist.
Background[]
The comic series was ideated by Alfredo Castelli in 1964, but eventually debuted only in 1970, in the comic magazine Horror.[1][2]
In 1971 all the strips published in the magazine and about one hundred unpublished strips were collected in the volume Zio Boris, published by New Time.[2] In 1972 the comic strips started being published by Il Corriere dei Ragazzi, with Daniele Fagarazzi replacing Peroni as artist.[1][2] Later the strips were published in the newspapers Gazzetta del Popolo and Corriere d'Informazione, and in the magazines Tilt, Cucciolo and Doctor Beruscus.[2]
The series tells the adventures of a mad scientist (Zio Boris) who assisted by strange creatures including a vampire, a werewolf and a flying skull makes insane experiments. The stories include citations from The Addams Family and from classical 1930s horror films, as well as satirical cues based on current events.[1][2]
References[]
- Humor comics
- Italian comic strips
- Comics characters introduced in 1970
- Italian comics characters
- 1970 comics debuts
- Fictional mad scientists
- Experimental medical treatments in fiction
- Italian comics stubs
- Comics character stubs