WHAT PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT MAGICO VENTOPOE'S FURY LIVES AGAIN IN A BLEND OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COMICS, by Antonio Faeti. An article that appeared in the feature Tutto libri -Tempo libero a supplement to La Stampa, 19 February 2000: "The journalist is nicknamed Poe because he resembles the poet, but all of Manfredi's captivating stories reflect an aura of Poe because, in Manfredi's view, history contains massacres, shadows, specters, corruption and rot…".
A SHAMAN FOR THE FUTURE, by Romano Madera. An article that appeared in Re Nudo, May 1999: "Magico Vento's adventures unfold in a rigorously documented framework of the wild West - but wild, in this case, also means savage oppression, ruthlessness and corruption by those whose only real God is the multiplication of dollars…".
MAGICO VENTO, HORROR IN THE WEST, interview with Gianfranco Manfredi by Francesco Marelli, which appeared in Ink, year VI nr. 12, March 1999: "I wanted a dirtier, cruder West, something we weren't used to seeing in other comic strips… No-one had ever bothered to tell purely Indian stories, with their mythologies and monsters, of which there existed no illustrated precedents…".
ON THE FRONTIERS OF THE WEST, interview with Gianfranco Manfredi by Massimo Cutò, which appeared in Il Resto del Carlino, 8 July 1997: "Magico Vento is a tribute to the classical epic of the Native Americans. With noble allusions, from Poe to Lovecraft…". A VEIL OF HORROR AND THE WEST ROSE AGAIN, by Gian Marco Walch. An article that appeared in Il Giorno, 20 June 1997: "He used to be a 'wasicun', a white man. Now he's a 'waayatan', a Sioux shaman. Of unknown past. Only shreds of memories: a train, a handful of soldiers, the gunshots, the stinging smell of dynamite, the cold thin smell of death…".
MAGICO VENTO - WIND BLOWING FROM THE PRAIRIES OF THE WEST, by Roberto Davide Papini. An article that appeared in La Nazione, 19 June 1997: "In Magico Vento the literary tradition of the eastern States of America, from Poe to Lovecraft, is blended with Fenimore Cooper's frontier literature…".
AND THE INDIANS CALL HIM MAGICO VENTO, by Claudio Paglieri. An article that appeared in Il Secolo XIX, 19 June 1997:
"His face, his long black hair and his lean physique deliberately draw inspiration from Daniel Day-Lewis as the latter appeared in 'the Last of the Mohicans'…". WESTERN AND HORROR, by Paolo Guiducci. An article that appeared in Corriere di Rimini, 17 June 1997: "History and legend, lead and horror. In Magico Vento we have a story written by Manfredi and illustrated by José Ortiz, poised between the ruthless iron law of the gun and the infinite and mysterious weapons of the spirit…".
MAGICO VENTO, A NEW BONELLI HERO, by Marco Bertoli.
An article that appeared in Il Giornale di Brescia, 15 June 1997: "A Western that isn't simply crammed with lead. This is the new challenging enterprise on which Sergio Bonelli has embarked: after launching characters that have become almost like cult idols for young people - Dylan Dog, Martin Mystère, and so forth - Bonelli has come back to his home theme, namely that of the West…".
MAGICO VENTO, DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES, by Filippo De Bortoli. An article that appeared in La Prealpina, 11 June 1997: "What I like is this concept, in a way, of restoring the West to itself, which means reinterpreting it as the last great adventure of a "modern" century, the last great exploration adventure…".
WESTERN HORROR AND STORIES OF VAMPIRES. ALL IN THE NAME OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by Renato Pallavicini. An article that appeared in L’Unità, 10 June 1997: "Cinema and Western as a citation and reservoir of inspiration for Gianfranco Manfredi, singer and songwriter, author, scriptwriter and, in this case, inventor of the series…".
WESTERN FEATS OF MAGICO VENTO, by Alessandro Mezzena Lona. An article that appeared in Il Piccolo, 1 June 1997: "Western and magic are blended in the adventures of the person Bonelli presents as a "Strange Man". He was invented by no less than Gianfranco Manfredi, who is very familiar to comic book enthusiasts …".
MAGICO VENTO, WESTERN AND HORROR, by Laura Detti. An article that appeared in Il Messaggero del Lunedì, 26 May 1997: "A western contaminated by horror and elements of magic, two ingredients which, as shown by the success of series such as Dylan Dog and Martin Mystère, have become an inseparable part of popular imagination among the younger generations of the last few years…".
MAGICO VENTO DOESN'T REMEMBER HE USED TO BE WHITE, interview with Gianfranco Manfredi by Checchino Antonini, which appeared in Liberazione, 22 May 1997: "In Magico Vento one also finds the gothic literature of the eastern States of the USA as well as the Indian oral tradition, which is partly still unknown and protected".
MAGICO VENTO, MILAN-STYLE HERO OF THE WEST, by Stefano Rossi. An article that appeared in La Repubblica, 19 May 1997: "The series will introduce the urban Western, describing the great American cities that were taking shape tumultuously at the end of the nineteenth century…". |
