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 | | Comics were introduced into Italy a few years after their appearance in the United States: from 1908 onwards the weekly paper Corriere dei Piccoli ("Children's Courier") published the Sunday pages of Buster Brown, Happy Hooligan, The Newklyweds, Bringing Up Father, Little Nemo. |
 | | So, from 1980 onward, the "Bonelli comics" have boomed; they are genuine 96-page novels in comic form, written and drawn by the best Italian authors; every series is usually scripted by its creator, and illustrated by 10/15 different artists. |
 | | A few comics are published in book-form (among them, the works of the Italian cartoonists Crepax, Manara and Pratt, and the translations of the French "album" Asterix, Lucky Luke, Tintin) are sold exlusively in bookshops; sales seldom exceed 10,000 copies. |
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