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athan Never, Legs Weaver and
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result of the joint work of three authors: MICHELE MEDDA, born in Cagliari on December 7th 1962;
ANTONIO SERRA,
born in Alghero on February 16th 1963 and BEPI VIGNA, born in Baunei (Nuoro)
on July 24th 1957. Medda, Serra and Vigna met at the beginning of the Eighties at the
cultural centre "Il Circolo", run by Gianfranco Ghironi. They come from
different educational backgrounds: Medda has a degree in humanities and wrote his
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stories; Serra published a non-commercial science fiction
magazine for the lovers of this genre with the title "Fate largo!";
Vigna has a degree in law and has worked as an attorney, in addition to contributing
many
articles to the newspaper "L'Unione Sarda" mainly
focusing on study of the island's popular traditions. Yet the three men shared
a passion for cartoons and together they founded the group "Bande Dessinée".
Their
acquaintance with Alfredo Castelli earned them the approval of some of their
proposed subjects for Martin Mystère; together they then wrote their first
story of the Detective dell'Impossibile, which is how they were eventually
introduced to Sergio Bonelli Editore. Still working as a trio they created many
more scripts for "Martin Mystère", "Dylan Dog" and "Zona X".
Finally, after editing
the Nathan Never and Legs Weaver project together, they began to work separately
on the scripts of individual stories. Medda has individually written adventures
of Tex, Nick Raider and Dylan Dog, in addition to a comic strip "Digitus Dei"
illustrated by Casini and published by Magic Press. Serra, who is also the
head of the editorial board of Nathan Never and Legs Weaver, has been the
protagonist of a long "conversation" on the graphic novel genre contained
in "Eroi di inchiostro" by Alberto Ostini and Giovanni Garbellini;
his new character, Gregory Hunter, is due to come out in the year 2001.
Vigna, an expert in Franco-Belge comic strips, writes scripts for Nick Raider
and Zagor. He has published a story with elements of the fantastic entitled
"L'estate dei dischi volanti", published by Condaghes, as well as a number
of essays (together with Medda); working jointly with the other two components
of the "banda dei sardi" and with Michele Masiero, he has also written
"Raccontare Martin Mystère" (Glamour).
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