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WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT TEX

OUR TEX: A HERO OF POPULAR LITERATURE, by Filippo De Bortoli. Interview with Sergio Bonelli appearing in La Prealpina, 24th June 2000: "The last great Tex confirms once again that my long-held belief was right: it is possible to educate the reading public to appreciate very diversified styles and genres of graphics and artwork.".

THE INVINCIBLE TEX WILLER, by Michele Giordano. Interview with Sergio Bonelli appearing in Chi, 24th December 1998:
"My father had good intuition, he embarked on an operation of revisionism in relations between Whites and Native Americans and this was even before "Soldier Blue".

TEX, A HANDSOME FIFTY-YEAR-OLD BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF FASHION, by Dario Campione. Interview with Claudio Villa appearing in Il Corriere di Como, 4th November 1998: "I was born ten years after Tex, to me he's like an elder brother to follow and love as if he were an ideal; working with him is both an honour and a passion. He represents an anchorage and expresses values that may not be the latest fashion but are part of modernity".

JOHN WAYNE IN PENCIL, by Massimiliano Mazzanti. An article appearing in Il Secolo d’Italia, 20th September 1998: "Tex is a contradictory character just as the very history of the West is full of contradictions (we still do not know whether Wyatt Earp was a sheriff or a gangster), but Bonelli Senior has given an extremely original interpretation and I believe this underlies his extraordinary success".

TEX, THE ALL-ITALIAN SYMBOL OF THE EPIC WEST IS TURNING FIFTY, by Edoardo Rosati. An article appearing in Oggi, 1st April 1998: "Texophile fever is overflowing and spreading into newspaper' pages, and it has ended up infecting intellectuals, sociologists and opinion makers, who are trying as hard as they can to explain the lure of Gianluigi Bonelli's creature".

GENTLEMAN RANGER, by Alberto Campo. An article appearing
in Musica Rock & Altro, supplement to La Repubblica, 26th March 1998: "Many authoritative exegetes have addressed the case of Tex, such as Umberto Eco, Oreste del Buono, Roberto Benigni, Sergio Cofferati, Francesco Guccini, Alberto Abruzzese, Gino & Michele and so on".
   
"AQUILA DELLA NOTTE" IS NOW FIFTY, by Guido Tiberga. An article appearing in Torino Sette, supplement to La Stampa, 20th March 1998: "In fifty years, the popular comic has changed its medium, from the small strip designed to be hidden amid the pages of a schoolbook, to the "big Tex" sold in book shops".
 
TEX WILLER, HIS FIRST FIFTY YEARS, by Emanuele Rebuffini. An article appearing in Avvenimenti, 18th March 1998: "If Tex's success has endured intact for half a century, the merit is undoubtedly to be attributed to the easily recognizable plot and the fascinating setting of the Old West".
  
AN AMERICAN RANGER FOR AN ITALIAN MIRACLE, by Sergio Sotgiu. An article appearing in Il Giornale, 28th February 1998: "Tex, the Italian miracle, enjoys good health for one very simple reason, an excellent reason: he is a constant presence in Italians' dreams; dreams of justice, above all: this is the deep-set desire that breathes life into Tex".
 
AQUILA DELLA NOTTE, HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS FOREVER YOUNG, by Sergio Cofferati. An article appearing in
Il Messaggero, 29th January 1998: "Moreover, today the plots are even more refined, with very accurate environmental descriptions and noticeable psychological implications even in minor and secondary figures. Don't you think this is a considerable achievement, in a period in which literature often abandons adventure and boasts avoidance of feeling and character?".

HOW COOL IS THAT TEX! An article by Alberto Abruzzese.
An article appearing in L’Espresso, 20th November 1998: "Tex is a long-lasting formula that has endured more perhaps than any other fashion, any other character and any other way of life. With his simplicity but also with his visceral, olfactive and visual enjoyment of a good steak with chips".
 
TEX AND HIS BROTHERS, by Roberto Barbolini. An article appearing in Panorama 20th November 1998: "Certainly, there's the whole background of the golden period of the American western, a repository of memorable scenes. But Tex is now a character with a sufficiently consolidated physiognomy of his own to withstand any comparison with his antecedents, and this highlights not only the undeniable debts but also the special features that have made him a veritable cult idol, and not merely in Italy".
  
HIGH NOON WITH TEX, by Claudia Guasco. An article appearing in Il Messaggero, 17th November 1988: "The vigour, friendliness and charm of Tex Willer have contributed to his success, together with the detailed and realistic artwork by Aurelio Galleppini, now accompanied by other illustrators such as Ferdinando Fusco, Guglielmo Letteri, Giovanni Ticci, Claudio Villa, Vincenzo Monti".

THE SOUND OF DISTANT DRUMS, by Diego Gabutti. An article appearing in Il Giorno, 15th November 1988: "Tex Willer, cast in the role of an all-American hero, is to all effects and purposes a classic Italian stock-character like Harlequin or Punchinello. The extraordinary fact that one of our most important national-popular characters was born in Arizona, is called Tex Willer, lives on an Indian reservation, fought in the War of Secession and wanders around the West displaying his badge as a Nevada ranger - this is something that not even Antonio Gramsci could have foreseen!".
 
TEX, THE PROPHET, by Antonio Faeti. An article appearing in Comic Art, September 1987: "Tex's most profound vocation is that expressed in the much-emphasized relation between fixity and flexibility. As a comic strip character, Tex is hard and fearless, like the other legendary characters belonging to the history of this medium. However, he is so open-minded that he wouldn't deny any fiction (western or eastern) the right to enter into his home".