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ister No
was created in 1975 by the scriptwriter GUIDO NOLITTA, the pen |
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name of the publisher SERGIO
BONELLI. The author was inspired to create the character by his travel
experiences, as he was "in love" with Brazil and had a profound knowledge of
the Amazon forest and the Sahara. Bonelli has said that the figure of Mister No
recalls Captain Vega, the pilot of a tourism plane he met personally during his
journeys around the world. This personal touch also explains the realism
characterizing the series: the places visited by Mister No, as well as many of |
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the characters Mister No
meets and some of the episodes in which he appears, draw their origins directly from
the author's experience. Born in Milan on December 2nd 1932, Sergio is the son of Gian
Luig Bonelli, the man who created Tex Willer and so many other heroes of Italian comic
strips. In order to distinguish himself from his father, Sergio preferred to sign his
scripts with a pen name, Guido Nolitta. Sergio Bonelli's début as a text author took
place in 1957, when he translated the Spanish series "Verdugo Ranch" into Italian and
also wrote the concluding episode, which was illustrated by Franco Bignotti. Bignotti
also developed the artwork for the first character conceived by Nolitta: "Un ragazzo
nel Far West", dated 1958. In the same period, Nolitta also
wrote some of the episodes of "Il Piccolo Ranger" and in 1960 he
composed "Il Giudice Bean", a brilliant series consisting of only six
episodes illustrated by the artwork of Sergio Tarquinio. The association with
Tarquinio was also renewed for "Il ribelle", a short story created in
the same year. But 1960 was also the year of the meeting between Sergio Bonelli and
the illustrator Gallieno Ferri: Bonelli and Ferri decided to engage in joint activity,
leading up to the creation, in 1961, of Zagor, a series in which almost all the
stories were composed by Nolitta until 1980. In 1975 Bonelli created Mister No, a
piper pilot midway between a wanderer and an adventurer, set against the background
of South America in the Fifties. In 1977 he composed a script for Aurelio Galleppini
entitled "L'uomo del Texas" and at the same time he started to
anonymously entrust Galep and other illustrators with some of his stories for Tex.
In 1985 he signed the concluding adventure of the saga of "The Little Ranger" and in
1990 he launched the mini-series "River Bill", with artwork by Francesco Gamba.
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