WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT MARTIN MYSTÈREMARTIN MYSTÈRE HASN'T SEEN KOSOVO…, by Rosanna Scardi.
An article that appeared in Il Giorno, 25th June 1999: "We're living in a
transition period that will lead to a restructuring of the genre. Just as television
ended up diminishing the role of cinema, comic strips are likely to suffer the same
fate, within the framework of the media. Yet comics will still retain the ability to
be influential as a means of communication, although not so powerfully as the small
screen…".
THIS VERY CURIOUS
GODSON OF MINE,
by Domenico Catagnano. Interview with Alfredo
Castelli that appeared in Lombardia Oggi, 20th December 1998: "Martin
Mystère is a concentration of my personal interests, and this strip gives me an
opportunity to use the whole of my own library.
He is a polyvalent character and I consider him difficult to associate with a specific genre,
since he is a blend of more or less everything: adventure, science fiction, mystery…".
UNCLE MARTY 200 TIMES OVER, by Pier Paolo Simonato.
An article that appeared in Il Gazzettino, 16th December 1998: "The plots
of his stories always start out from legends, myths and historical "truths"
that are cleverly blended with a touch of the spirit of adventure that is so dear
to the comic strip…".
WITH MARTIN MYSTÈRE YOU TRAVEL THROUGH TIME AND DIMENSIONS, by
Massimo Piagnani. An article that appeared in Il Tempo, 22nd November 1997:
"Where there's an enigma, you can be sure you'll find him as well; wherever
there's an absurd case or an inexplicable story he never fails to show up. This
character, Martin Mystère, doesn't investigate police cases or crime scenes -
he deals with the impossible, which is indisputably his favorite subject-matter…".
AN ARCHAEOLOGIST BY THE NAME OF MARTIN, by Simone Bedetti. An article that appeared in
Mattina, supplement to L’Unità, 26th June 1997: "For the first
time the protagonist of a comic strip series destined to a vast general readership was
not an invincible hero or an adventurer with a stormy past, but a forty-year-old
archaeologist and anthropologist who preferred citations from the world of culture
to exercises in heroic rhetoric…".
MYSTÈRE, JOURNEYS INTO THE MEANING OF LIFE,
by Emanuele Rebuffini.
An article that appeared in Avvenire,
7th January 1997: "Uncle Marty displays
a rare degree of learning and an intellectual curiosity that leads him to investigate
unresolved secrets and enigmas, from King Arthur to Stonehenge, from the Pyramids to
the Holy Grail. But he's not a trivial transposition of Indiana Jones…".
MYSTÈRE, FROM COMIC STRIPS TO THE LIBRARY. WITH IMAGINATION, by Stefano
Bettera. Interview with Alfredo Castelli that appeared in L’Informazione,
3rd May 1995:
"Created twenty years or so ago by Alfredo Castelli, this is one of the few
characters of the genre that can boast a profound link with the world of so-called
"serious" culture…".
ON A TRIP WITH MYSTÈRE, by Antonella Visconti.
Interview with Alfredo Castelli that appeared in La Prealpina, 16th July 1996:
"For the last fourteen years or so, with his monthly adventures, but also with
the non-series issues, the Almanacks of Mystery, he has taken up almost all the time
of this mild-mannered gentleman, a passionate scholar of the mysteries of history and
of myth, and an equally passionate popularizer of his discoveries…".
MARTIN MYSTÈRE COMES HOME, by Valeria Veltroni.
An article that appeared in
Il Manifesto Extra, supplement to
Il Manifesto, 8th January 1996: "
An archaeologist, anthropologist, a university professor, director of a TV show for
the ABC network, collector of unusual objects, indefatigable traveler and incurably
curious about everything, Martin Mystère is American by birth but he acquired most
of his cultural education
in Italy …".
MARTIN MYSTÈRE, review by Oscar Cosulich that appeared
in the feature "Il Fumetto", in L’Espresso, 19th November 1995,
on the occasion of the publication of the work "Mysteri in treno":
"Alfredo Castelli, the creator of Martin Mystère, loves to play around with
scripts in which the most diverse citations are intertwined in an apparently casual
fashion, giving rise to bold reconstructions of parallel realities, which may seem
to a large extent improbable but are always philologically plausible…".
CULTURED MARTIN AT THE BOOK FAIR, by Francesco Specchia. An article that appeared in
Giovani, supplement to
L’Arena, summer 1995. "Martin Mystère has also been a star
testimonial at the Book Fair that closed just yesterday in Turin. This was the very
first time for a cartoon, and it was thoroughly deserved…".
THERE IS A MYSTÈRE AMONG THE MYSTERIES OF TRIESTE, by A. Mezzena
Lona. Interview with Alfredo Castelli that appeared in Il Piccolo, 27th May 1994:
"Our manner of working is geometrical. Once the stories are finished,
they resemble concentric circles. They function on the basis of a mechanism I
could define as mathematical…".
SPINA AND STRIP, an article by Robero Barbolini, that appeared in Panorama,
31st December 1993. "Despite his illuministic vocation that makes him considerably more
reassuring than his colleague-rival Dylan Dog, Martin Mystère in his own small way
suffers from the paradox of every type of illuminism: the light that seeks to dispel
the darkness merely pushes the dark a little further ahead, so that it finds nothing
other than itself along its path. The mystery? It's always a few steps beyond…".
MARTIN MYSTÈRE: THE OTHER FACE OF DYLAN DOG, by L.B.
Interview with Alfredo Castelli that appeared in La Gazzetta di Ascoli Piceno,
15th August 1992:
"When Castelli speaks of Martin Mystère he does so with the air of one who
is telling all sorts of details about someone he knows very well. Perhaps a relative
or maybe even himself. Because it's as if Alfredo Castelli were in some sense partly
Martin Mystère…".
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