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athan Never, Legs Weaver and their science fiction universe are |
| the result of the co-operation of three authors:
MICHELE MEDDA,
born in Cagliari on December 7th 1962;
ANTONIO SERRA,
born in Alghero on February 16th 1963 and
BEPI VIGNA,
born in Baunei (Nuoro) on July 24th 1957.
Medda, Serra and Vigna
met at the beginning of the Eighties at the
cultural centre "Il Circolo", run by Gianfranco
Ghironi. They come from different educational backgrounds:
Medda has a degree in humanities and wrote his thesis
on Italian detective |
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| stories; Serra published a non-commercial science fiction
magazine for the lovers of this genre with the title "Fate largo!" Vigna
has a degree in law and has worked as an attorney, in addition to signing many
articles for the newspaper "L'Unione Sarda" mainly
concerning the study of the island's popular traditions. Yet the three men share
a passion for cartoons and together they founded the group "Bande Dessinée". Their
acquaintance with Alfredo Castelli earned them the approval of some of their
proposed subjects for Martin Mystère and then together they wrote their first story
of the Detective dell'Impossibile, which is how they were eventually introduced to
Sergio Bonelli Editore. Still working as a threesome they created many more scripts
for "Martin Mystère", "Dylan Dog" and "Zona X". Finally, after editing the Nathan Never and
Legs Weaver project together, they began to work separately on the scripts of
individual stories. Medda has individually written adventures of Tex, Nick Raider
and Dylan Dog, in addition to a comic strip "Digitus Dei" illustrated by Casini and
published by Magic Press. Serra, who is also the head of the editorial board of Nathan
Never and Legs Weaver, has been the protagonist of a long "conversation" on the
graphic novel genre contained in "Eroi di inchiostro" by Alberto Ostini
and Cesare Garbellini; his new character, Gregory Hunter, is due to come out in
the year 2001. Vigna, an expert in Franco-Belge comic strips, has written scripts
for Nick Raider and Zagor. He has published a story with elements of the fantastic
entitled "L'estate dei dischi volanti",
published by Condaghes, as well as a number of essays (together with Medda);
working jointly with the other two components of the "banda dei sardi" and with
Michele Masiero, he has also written "Raccontare Martin Mystère" (Glamour). |
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