of Gabriele Ferrero
ALIKE is the product of a cultural phenomenon in sixties saw a new genre in fiction, on which engage issues and situations taken from other media. Alika makes his first appearance on newsstands in July 1965. Inspiration of the character is declared Barbarella, starring eponymous comic-erotic fantscientifico created in 1962 by the author French Jean-Claude Forest . The similarity between the two series is visible in the contents for at least ten issues of the series. Then, in fact, Alika becomes a stage on which alternate grotesque faces of many famous politicians, actors and Italian singers. The new direction of the head, distinctly political fantasy, with constant jokes and satirical sneers against a social class "remote" from ordinary people, it lingers on the representation of some tics that have the quality to make it a little 'more humane public figures . The portrait of Alika are the authors of the staff, composed of Pascolini Alessandro, Anna Taruffi (Editors), Angelo Todaro ( Paul Bennett), Umberto Sammarini (U . Sam ) and Romano Felmang mangiari , is detailed and takes in its essential characteristics of a type of woman vogue during the period. Here too the reference is to Barbarella or better Brigitte Bardot, who was inspired to sketch the Forest's creation. Like many of the characters that is used to interpret the French actress, also appears Alika a liberated woman, free from complex towards the male gender, more often uninhibited.
And it could not be otherwise, given that the heroin comes Absur from a planet plunged into disorder, in which social roles are often reversed from those made on Earth. But it is on the globe that Alika lives most of his adventures, led by a spacecraft moving through space and time, driven by brain waves.
ALIKE A SANREMO
What has drawn the comic, sometimes profusely, from other media is a given incontrovertible. As reflected in, among others, the endless transcripts classics of literature and film parodies of famous films that have marked many seasons. Although it was only touched upon, the world of pop music has been part of this phenomenon. In fact, the number 15 Alika, "Don Abbondio in San Remo," dated February 1967, the attractive extraterrestrial adventure Alika live at the festival of Italian song. Co-stars are many singers and performers that have walked during their career, the stage of the Teatro Ariston. They range from the presenter Mike Bongiorno to Lucio Dalla by Caterina Caselli to Gianni Morandi until Claudio Villa, the "prince Cell. And it is the latter that the book critically, in a veiled way, the victory of that year at the festival, which took place with the song "Do not think of me." ©
on the images of the authors
And it could not be otherwise, given that the heroin comes Absur from a planet plunged into disorder, in which social roles are often reversed from those made on Earth. But it is on the globe that Alika lives most of his adventures, led by a spacecraft moving through space and time, driven by brain waves.
ALIKE A SANREMO
What has drawn the comic, sometimes profusely, from other media is a given incontrovertible. As reflected in, among others, the endless transcripts classics of literature and film parodies of famous films that have marked many seasons. Although it was only touched upon, the world of pop music has been part of this phenomenon. In fact, the number 15 Alika, "Don Abbondio in San Remo," dated February 1967, the attractive extraterrestrial adventure Alika live at the festival of Italian song. Co-stars are many singers and performers that have walked during their career, the stage of the Teatro Ariston. They range from the presenter Mike Bongiorno to Lucio Dalla by Caterina Caselli to Gianni Morandi until Claudio Villa, the "prince Cell. And it is the latter that the book critically, in a veiled way, the victory of that year at the festival, which took place with the song "Do not think of me." ©
on the images of the authors
