| WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT NAPOLEONE
MANONE AND PISTOLONI. Interview with Carlo Ambrosiani and Paolo Bacilieri by Franco Busatta, which appeared in Dime Press n. 21, year VII (s.d.): " In creating Napoleone I start out from dashing upright heroes like Garibaldi, or, for instance, like Walter Scott’s trusty sterling knights… Terms such as abnegation, altruism, honesty, moral integrity are my cornerstones in building up the hero".
CROSS-INTERROGATION. Interview with Carlo Ambrosini
by Giuseppe Pollicelli, which appeared in Dime Press, n. 17 year VI (s.d.): "I had long been thinking of a scenario in which it would be possible to arouse man’s pychic materials and fantasies, associating in one and the same context ancient Egypt and the Viennese Secession, Indian fables and the myths of classical Greece".
THE LASTBORN AT THE BONELLI’S. COMIC STRIPS PEOPLE ARE ON THE INCREASE, by Pier Giorgio Nosari. An article published in L’Eco di Bergamo, on October 17th 1997: "An enigmatic character who turns State’s evidence in Geneva. At the borders between reality and imagination...". COMIC STRIPS, by Oscar a review published in L’Espresso, October 2nd 1997: "An unusual character launched by the cartoonist in difficult investigations on bloody crimes, among quotations from Psycho and graphic references ranging from George Grosz to Little Nemo...".
THE ATTACK OF COMICS: THE GREAT SUCCESS OF THE LATEST TWO HEROES, MAGICO VENTO AND NAPOLEONE DI CARLO, by Livia Grossi. An article published in Il Tempo, on September 28th 1997: "The past together with science fiction future, 'western' cinema and psychoanalysis, American movies and African animism are only a few ingredients among those that make up these post-modern stories consumed by young readers...".
NAPOLEONE, A DETECTIVE BORN IN ITALY, by Marco Bertoldi. An article published in Il Giornale di Brescia, on September 21st 1997: "This is not one of the usual heroes created by our local authors but with foreign names and whose adventures take place only in the U.S.A. or in exotic environments...".
NAPOLEONE, THE VISIONARY, by Stefania Marra. An article published in Avvenimenti, on September 17th 1997: "Napoleone soon to come at your news-agent's, a mini-series by Bonelli half-way between detective and noir stories. And an exhibition celebrates its publisher in Padua...".
NAPOLEONE IN NOIR, by Anna Lia Sabelli Fioretti. An article published in Corriere dell’Umbria, on September 13th 1997:
"The peculiarity of this new hero of graphic novels is the materialisation of three strange creatures that he is the only one to see and which represent three aspects of his personality...".
BONELLI'S NAPOLEONE, A HERO HALFWAY BETWEEN DETECTIVE AND NOIR STORIES, by Francesco Specchia.
An article published in L’Arena, on September 12th 1997:
"The new product addressed to the young is full of quotations from literature and cinema and promises to be one of the most interesting events of the season...".
HERE IS NAPOLEONE, THIS TIME FROM SWITZERLAND,
by Andrea Cavalcanti. An article published in Liberazione, on September 11th 1997: "The most anomalous feature of the character created by Ambrosini is his capacity to establish a dialogue with strange creatures born in his own mind...".
THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEONE IN STRIP CARTOONS, by Filippo De Bortoli. An article published in
La Prealpina, on September 10th 1997 together with an interview with Carlo Ambrosini: "Thoughtful and psychoanalytic connotations are mixed in a story filled with plots and typically adventurous situations...".
NAPOLEONE IN THE MIDDLE OF (DRAWN) MYSTERIES), editorial published in Il Piccolo, on September 10th 1997:
"The creator of Napoleone Di Carlo, as the full name of the character goes, is Carlo Ambrosini, a well-known author to
Dylan Dog's readers...".
NAPOLEONE'S INVESTIGATIONS, by Dario Campione. An article published in Mattina Milano, supplement to L’Unità, on July 30th 1997: "While the detective story plot follows the style of Bonelli's comics closely, on the other hand the references and forays of this character into the minefield of psychoanalysis are totally new...". |
