The multimedia archive of the imaginary opens in Cagliari. The library has been moved to the premises of the former Edmondo De Amicis elementary school in via Falzarego 35 in Cagliari and the work of cataloging the more than 10 thousand comics and documents collected in the archival collection has begun.
These are important and rare materials, such as those donated by Fulvio Caporale , a former teacher, writer and musician. But the archive also includes comic books (magazines, complete series, books, graphic-novels), essays on comics, animated films, television, animated films, poor cards (stickers, thematic playing cards, Tarocchi), illustrated and satirical magazines of the period (from the first half of the 19th century to the 1960s: Italian Illustration, Popular Illustration, The Spirit Elf, The Sunday Newspaper and others), photo novels, selections of comics from all over the world, from Mao's China to Brazil, Argentina, Russia.
The comic books and magazines are divided between the Cagliari and Santa Maria Navarrese offices and cover the entire history of Italian comics. There are complete collections (Corriere dei Piccoli 1940 and all the vintages from 1960 to 1972), superhero adventures, anastatic reprints and original Linus vintages, from 1965 to 1980. And again the complete collections of the main anthological magazines: Totem, Comic Art , Pilot, etc.
"In a balanced media system one must not only spread culture, but also be concerned with providing the tools to analyze and decode the reality that is reflected in cultural 'products' - explained the director Bepi Vigna , historic comics firm in Italy. (he is co-author of Nathan Never della Bonelli editore) in the presence of the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Cagliari Maria Dolores Picciau and the coordinator of the Historical Archives and Libraries Office and of the Municipal Library System Pasquale Mascia - An archive on popular and mass culture (comics, cinema, TV, genre literature, stickers, games) aims to catalog and make these tools available ".
"Our International Center for Comics collects materials and traces of the popular narrative production that has fueled our imagination - continues Vigna - In practice, we propose a new way of approaching the story that concerns everyone. Because we are what we dreamed of, we are the the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have listened to. We are the games we played as children ... we are our memories. Through comics and books, in the pages of illustrated magazines, in films and TV series, in the songs we loved, we can find what helps us to understand ourselves better and evaluate the changes in the world we have gone through and understand the system of values ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
