Sor Pampurio
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FormatText comics
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Created byCarlo Bisi

Sor Pampurio is an Italian comic strip series created by Carlo Bisi (1929-1978).

Background

Started in 1929, the comic strips were published, with some breaks, by Il Corriere dei Piccoli until 1978.[1] Every episode starts depicting Sor Pampurio ("Mr. Pampurio")'s happiness about his new house, a happiness that turns in a few frames, for a reason or another, in an increasing discontent and in a new moving at the end of any story.[2]

The comic strip received some very different critical interpretations: during the years it was accused of being an uncritical adhesion of fascist values or marked as "bourgeois comics", while on the contrary other critics considered the comics positively as a slight parody of bourgeois values, a symbolic critic to the rampant consumerism and a reflection about the inability to achieve happiness through material values.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Paolo Gallarinari (cured by), Un maestro dell'ironia borghese. Carlo Bisi fumettista e illustratore nella cultura del suo tempo, ANAFI, 2011.
  2. ^ B.P. Boschesi, Manuale dei fumetti, Mondadori, 1976.


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