Reviews
  
  

WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT COMMANDER MARK

DARIO GUZZON AND ITALIAN CARTOON COW-BOYS, by Maria Arruzza. An article published in Gazzetta del Sud on May 12th 2000: "The story of strip cartoons in Italy started in the Thirties, when American cartoons transformed a product that had been typically for children into reading-matter also suitable for adults…".
 
FAREWELL, CAPTAIN MIKI, by Thomas Martinelli. An article published in Il Manifesto on May 5th 2000: "The last significant title by EsseGesse is Commander Mark, a mixture of Native Americans, rebellion and freedom in an America that is conquering its own independence. Following the winning formula of its precursors of the Fifties, Commander Mark doesn't convey the same feeling, since the themes here are those of new westerns, both on paper and on the screen…".
 
FAREWELL TO CAPTAIN MIKI'S FATHER, by Guido Tiberga.
An article published in La Stampa on May 5th 2000:"'As typical people from Turin, we invented a sort of "assembly line"'. That is how Dario Guzzon, one of the creators of Italian western-like cartoons, remembered the beginning of the Fifties and the artistic brotherhood with Pietro Sartoris and Giovanni Sinchetto. Together, developing texts and cartoons in turn, the three men gave life to characters such as Captain Miki, the Great Blek, Commander Mark, paper heroes belonging to a fantastic world totally unknown to the youngest readers…".
 
DEATH OF GUZZON, FATHER OF BLEK AND CAPTAIN MIKI,
by Alberto Gedda. An article published in La Repubblica on May 5th 2000: "Miki and Blek's strength is in the design, in the stories, in the good-natured humour that is mainly expressed by the supporting characters created by the authors to accompany their heroes. An incomparable characterization also proposed by EsseGesse with their last character: Commander Mark (September 5th 1967)…".
   
GUZZON IS DEAD, NOW CAPTAIN MIKI IS ALONE, by Roberto Davide Papini. An article published in Il Giorno on May 5th 2000:"With the death of Dario Guzzon, the last of the three famous authors signing themselves EsseGesse, one of the most romantic pages of Italian cartoons has closed, the page of Captain Miki (1951), Blek Macigno or the Great Blek (1954), Commander Mark (1966), three among the most famous creatures conceived by the trio, who made their début in Turin in 1950 with the design of Kinowa by Andrea Lavezzolo…".

FAREWELL TO GUZZON, CAPTAIN MIKI'S FATHER. Editorial published in Il Domani della Calabria on May 5th 2000:"At the end of the Forties Guzzon, together with another two illustrators - Pietro Sartoris and Giovanni Sinchetto - founded the EsseGesse group (an acronym based on the three surnames of the authors). Their joint work gave life to three stories that were to be enormously successful, with very high circulation for that time. Captain Miki was created in 1951, Blek Macigno in 1954 and Commander Mark in 1966…".
 
AND LINA CHOSE THE ADVENTURE OF… CARTOONS,
by Giovanni Salviati. An interview with Lina Buffolente published in Il Giornale di Vicenza on September 4th 1996: "For more than fifty years this well-mannered, motherly-looking lady occupied a territory that had traditionally belonged to men and invaded with her pencil the North American forests and frontier lands where only the trappers and Native Americans dare ride, and which are still today the exclusive prerogative of her male colleagues…".

LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF, I AM COMMANDER MARK,
by Marina Gersony. An interview with Lina Buffolente published in
Il Giornale on July 23rd 1996: "The comic panels of this fantastic hero, a good and a just man, set in a good and just America, are still very popular. And what the readers like most is the co-protagonist, Gufo Triste, the plaintive pain in the neck for Mark, one of the most successful supporting characters of Italian cartoons…".