The Collected Toppi 12: Men of the World - Hardcover

Toppi, Sergio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1962413373 ISBN 13: 9781962413374

Verlag: Magnetic Press, 2026

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Three stories from the infamous One Man, One Adventure series published by Bonelli in 1976, each focusing on a notable central character with a unique and fascinating past embroiled on an adventure during notable periods of history. This volume includes the never-before translated “The Man from the Nile,” “The Man from Mexico,” and “The Man from the Swamp,” all told with Toppi’s groundbreaking and inimitable style.

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Sergio Toppi was born in Milan, Italy, in October 1932. As a self-taught artist, he began his career in illustration working for the renowned Italian publisher UTET on numerous notable advertising campaigns. Adapting his style to fit the needs of each commission, he excelled at capturing documentary accuracy as well as caricatural cartooning. His first sequential work was featured in Corriere dei Piccoli (The Children’s Gazette), featuring the character Il Mago Zurli (the Zurli Wizard). In the decades that followed, his subsequent work evolved in artistry, garnering numerous accolades throughout the European industry. He primarily focused on short, self-contained stories for various French and Italian publications, including the experimental monthly Alter Alter, the adventure magazine Orient Express, and well-known comics magazines such as Linus, Corto Maltese, and Un Uomo Un’avventura in Italy, and L’Histoire de France en Bandes Dessinées and La Découverte du Monde in France. Collected exclusively in Europe by the French publisher Mosquito, his body of work has been recognized as a masterful example of illustration and sequential storytelling that has influenced many of the biggest names in the industry worldwide. His art has been displayed in the Masters of the European Comic Book exhibit at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and in the Museum of Comic Art in Angoulême. Toppi passed away on August 21, 2012, in the city of his birth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Magnetic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1962413373
• ISBN 13: 9781962413374
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Toppi Sergio
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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