Well,our comic industry is not on par with the French one...but Italian artists got somehow a big position in the Disney industry, and all the good Disney comics are produced here (like P.K.N.A.: the adventures of Donald as a super hero, Monster Allergy, Mickey's weekly stories etc ) so we are "shining in Disney's reflected light" ;)
W.I.T.C.H may be the first italian comic for girls to become a success, but it's not the first: when I was little there was "Minnie & Company", a special Disney magazine with comics by female artists that featured only the female Disney characters (Minnie, Daisy, Magica De Spell, Gradma Duck and her stories, Brigitta Mc Bridge etc) Boys allowed only as love interests XD I adored that magazine , there were really memorable stories, too bad it didn't last more than 2-3 years. Re reading it now that I'm an adult, I'm still surprised at how many feminist ideas they managed to hide behind those stories XD and I'm still wondering if they are the reason why I'm a feminist now XD I read an article about how the comic industrie for girls was totally booming in italy. Try this article (http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/base/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=47&ID_articolo=67&ID_sezione=70&sezione=) Sorry, it's in italian, but you can translate it with babel fish...
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W.I.T.C.H may be the first italian comic for girls to become a success, but it's not the first: when I was little there was "Minnie & Company", a special Disney magazine with comics by female artists that featured only the female Disney characters (Minnie, Daisy, Magica De Spell, Gradma Duck and her stories, Brigitta Mc Bridge etc) Boys allowed only as love interests XD
I adored that magazine , there were really memorable stories, too bad it didn't last more than 2-3 years. Re reading it now that I'm an adult, I'm still surprised at how many feminist ideas they managed to hide behind those stories XD and I'm still wondering if they are the reason why I'm a feminist now XD
I read an article about how the comic industrie for girls was totally booming in italy.
Try this article (http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/base/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=47&ID_articolo=67&ID_sezione=70&sezione=) Sorry, it's in italian, but you can translate it with babel fish...
I hope things will get better in Canada ^^