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The "modernity texiana" by Claudio Nizzi

Among the many schools of thought about Tex "modern", there is no doubt that he sees the rangers, Olympic demigod or titanium according to the previous interpretations, engaged Pirandello in a search page from the mid-eighties, a period whose Tex, orphaned character of a great father, expecting to find another Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, of course, without finding it, finding instead an unexpected and sudden fall to Earth. No more Hercules or Prometheus, but through a sudden and rapid escape from the myth, the hero is transformed into a human being altogether. Even tra i più brillanti, mi verrebbe da aggiungere con un pizzico di malignità.
Con Claudio Nizzi, l'uomo Tex prevale con grande chiarezza sull'eroe Tex. E magicamente il pallino delle sue storie passa dalle sue mani a quelle dei suoi nemici. Le vicende di Tex si tingono di giallo, i misteri o presunti tali iniziano a pullulare, ma, come è stato fatto giustamente notare, non sono più misteri ingenui alla “Satania”, sono misteri “impegnativi”, forse troppo per il nostro ranger appena umanizzato, quasi fosse un novello Pinocchio. I suoi nemici prendono il sopravvento nell'economia delle avventure, ed il ranger più famoso d'Italia principia a brancolare sempre più spesso nel buio. Per fortuna non loses the ability to shoot and get into fights, unfortunately lost his usual intuition that guided him very well so far. There are numerous stories in which Night Eagle is unable to solve the riddle itself, the solution of which is as flat-spotted face, right in time for some beneinformato and providential "deus ex machina", also there have been countless stories where Tex is saved in extremis by those who are to pass in those parts of the Indian cavalry to friends, from children to old ladies.
The enemies get larger, they take over, manipulating our hero like a puppet, lead him by the nose wherever they want, except seeing snatch victory by a stroke of fortuitous luck. Consequently
Tex, bereft of his charisma, passes by authoritarianism and begins to issue "orders" to Kit Carson and Tiger (just between us, annoying inconsistency, as a friend to help you because you estimate does not impart orders) becomes the "boss" of pards, his heroic stature seems to be part of the past, making a simple business card, while the figure shows a threshold after another.
good stories out there, especially in the early years, but they are not, as noted above, the stories of a mythical demigod and bold, are only the vicissitudes of a man (undeserved?) Kissed by luck madam and preceded by an (often as one would say undeserved) reputation that surrounds him, often, paradoxically, makes it visible to its enemies like a fly in milk and makes his opponents play in attack and throw him, forcing him to bring home the victory scoring chance in a network often play out in plenty of time expired.
Tex is still a comic book and many interesting stories retain a certain charm, but the magnitude of the character is quite different from that of the same character written by Gianluigi or Sergio Bonelli, alias Nolitta.

The image is the cover of Tex giant number 280 Sergio Bonelli Editore ©

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Part Two

The Tex Guido Nolitta: a great humanity against the wounds of God

We come to the great Guido Nolitta, aka Sergio Bonelli, the second author who has tried his hand in the writing of stories Rangers, alongside his father in a work to shake your wrists: Tex write but not limited to, he can become the support of his father, who was often helpful to his son when the latter was facing difficulties in writing, for example immediately after the first few numbers of Zagor. I think enough thanks to the editor this undertaking has been a source of great concern and pain head, but sometimes the pain of the head can be very fruitful, such as when Zeus gave birth to Athena from the skull directly at a big headache, caparisoned at all points. To me the parallels between the two cases, there is everything. The Tex
Nolitta, seen in retrospect, that is to say in hindsight, it confirms in my opinion was a great character, the heroic stature very impressive, although the differences in the way of writing than the parent were many and quite significant . Meanwhile, Tex is very hard, maybe even harder than his father but lost much of his easygoing air. Conversely his vocabulary and his way of expressing heavy and become much more serious (dare) (And this despite Nolitta enter several "curtains" funny) and somewhat rhetorical, as well as the expression of abstract values \u200b\u200band ideals, all concrete instead of the hero's father's both: the ranger Louis G. Bonelli is a positive character who drags events, Tex Nolitta is a great hero who is destined to defeat, however, because the rot against generalized interests against the dirty, negative against an evil world and there is no victory, only an unremitting struggle, tireless and full of illusory success , who regularly turn out to be mixed with bitterness and a sense of helplessness. Nolitta Tex turns into a hero inflexible and rigid, willing to follow his personal code of ethics even at the cost of life when there is everything to gain from the stall or come to terms, which since its first story becomes a fully fledged ranger and later an Indian chief paternalistic and loving, as aware of the inevitable defeat and the imminent end of his world.
Nolitta Many stories are beautiful and also several of the masterpieces: not only, some characters created by this great author are among the most popular series, many memorable years of their appearance: the lone dell'West and El Muerto are examples more immediate, but of course many others would have to be mentioned. His masterpieces were born on Tex, however, as his stories , containing cioè i suoi topoi, come l'amicone che si rivela essere poi il vero cattivo e come il vicecomandante giovane e borioso che prende improvvisamente il posto di un comandante esperto e ragionevole. Il Tex di Nolitta si sporca e si deve lavare, radere, fatica, ha sete, ha sonno, suda come i comuni mortali, ma questo non sminuisce la sua grandezza, anzi, il contrario, la esalta: Tex non è un semidio armato di cuore di leone e stinchi di santo, è un essere umano grandioso che titanicamente combatte il male in un mondo magmatico e proteiforme, dove nulla è quello che sembra e dove ogni vittoria è fondamentalmente il preludio ad una sconfitta: un eroe grandissimo che si staglia contro uno sfondo molto grigio, per non dire quasi nero.
Tex does not move the story, Tex the fight to the end without falling and remains standing despite a real cyclone is sweeping down upon him and many around him who placed their hopes in him.
Leaving aside the often naive confidence that Tex has to give away to the enemy, as opposed to the distrust of intuition and that its correspondent Gian Luigi Bonelli, the bottom is a detail but still very significant: I understand perfectly Nolitta that would be an example to follow as the author, because of the unorthodoxy of some of his choices, including that of neglect in favor of Carson or Tiger Kit paired with Tex Willer. Although some of these tarnish the myth created by her father, Tex that arises è tutt'altro che un personaggio poco interessante, anzi, e quando i pennelli sono quelli di Fusco, di Ticci o di Galep vengono fuori delle coppie autore disegnatore da ANTOLOGIA. Chiamarle memorabili sarebbe francamente riduttivo.

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l'immagine rappresenta la copertina di Tex gigante numero 183 © Sergio Bonelli Editore

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Parte prima: il Tex di Giovanni Luigi Bonelli


Un discorso chiaramente partigiano

Avverto il lettore che quello che mi accingo a scrivere non è un intervento che wish to be objective, it is clearly a part of speech, and intellectual honesty, I must immediately admit that there is no doubt that this should be considered. There is, for me to be objective when discussing a topic that deeply touches my feelings. Indeed, rather, that affects the sentiments of what I was, that a child daydreaming the collection of Tex in his library, and put at the top of his wish to be able to browse and read the wonderful books of the ranger , books that wanted more than anything in the world.
Other times, I must say. Times when our mothers did not want playing at home, we threw him out after school as soon as the season allowed it and did not want to meet again until a certain time. And then there were not the groups of boys with or without their beloved books, waiting to be able to complete two teams for the ball, and meanwhile organized a fantastic stock exchange securities with beautiful and colorful. Other times I was saying. And of course, another Tex ...
... Another Tex, an introduction linked to nostalgia, childhood ... I could not choose the best allies that this stain from my talk is only of ideological hues and simple counter that I do become distracted by nostalgia, that often the changes are better but are perceived as so negative. Okay, I chose to play a difficult game, but a Once I've agreed to do so I just have to play it all the way and openly. And then of course I do, giving an overview of the features that impressed me then and that meant that the love for the character is virtually unchanged after so many years in me.

The Tex Gian Luigi Bonelli, a great character is difficult to define

A mo 'introduction, I tried to jot down a list of characteristics of the rangers as well as I knew him back when I read it too table, provoking the ire of my parents and ruining the books permanently:

Tex is the driving force of all its history. All things revolve around him, the heliocentric system is replaced by "texcentrico. Nothing positive can happen without his involvement. Tex was born as an outlaw, and in fact immediately embodies the righteousness which is quite separate from the law, Tex is a synthesis impossible Rangers, Indian chief and Indian agent, white and red. Tex is a man who strikes terror into the enemies and absolute trust in friends. Tex is able to find any clue of hank and his nose and "a certain voice," lead him straight to the solution of any plot ... and so on.

I could go on for pages, but doing what I think is an absolutely useless: it is impossible, or at least extremely simplistic, to try to know the origins of Tex listing its major characteristics. It would be much quicker and better to list only one: the inconsistency. Tex is a very contradictory character with himself, as the result of many years of adventures written by his father and the first writer unsurpassed in a large volcanic and without planning, as he often said. An Indian chief who called the red man "faces of clay," a lawyer acting maliciously by the arsonist, the bomber and the torturer, a man who despises money and that he always pays with mysterious inexhaustible funds but does a blizzard because the soldiers were handed over to Navajos of his lean animals, except leave enormous treasures in gold and emeralds to rot in the desert, which could easily turn his people into a community of rich vaqueros. And even in this list I could dwell at leisure. What I think is clear from these reviews on the subject as it is true that the first Tex is easy to think of a mysterious object, being a person who is groping his precise identity, both graphic and psychological but, Incredi, Tex remains and will remain a difficult character to define and harness in one or more synthetic formulas also true in the age of first maturity, in what is generally considered his period gold, that I, perhaps arbitrarily, I tend to identify with the arrival of William letter and order books of the strip, in which the comic becomes really very nice graphically and is definitely a quantum leap.
Tex: a short and snappy name designed for a man of action and impulsive, which does not hesitate to physically attack anyone who dares to question his word or who dares to challenge or provoke him, indeed, he is a born provocateur, a man who is able to say what he thinks anyone without fear of retaliation, which does not come to terms except through their own initiative, who lives in an open, brave, risky and yet always has a smile on his lips. But Tex is also the name of an intelligent and intuitive, and positive skeptic who does not believe in magic although it has clashed several times with the sorcerer, a man all my heart and all of the brain, in short, a man at the square. And as in all things squared, the less they become more and no less so, despite the common mortals do not enjoy this wonderful privilege. Even the pards, starting with Kit Carson, who acts as a humanizing and a watch, and remember to have sleep and hunger, being tired and feeling pessimistic and discouraged.
The charm of this character is great: a man alone, often without even the moral support of the army or other institutions that need his help, can to bring justice in the wilderness in which there is rule of force, annihilating opponents despite the disproportionate size, use of resources "cathartic" as fire, explosion, water or even launched into a mad train race. A titanic Tex, which moves almost forces of nature that is almost always a smile, able to joke in the shark tank or enough to deal with his own tormentors.
This fascination is, in my humble opinion, the secret of the success of the series: the character certainly has some characteristics of the classic comic book hero, the kind that come out of the water with his pants dry and have no moral hesitation because their code etico scolpito nel granito, ma è, in realtà , eterno , più che moderno o classico, rappresentando, certo, l'eterna lotta del bene contro il male, ma nel suo caso con il bene protagonista soverchiante e disposto ad adoperare qualsiasi mezzo per prevalere. Tex rappresenta una giustizia aggressiva ed eterodossa, una giustizia "illegale" che ha un opinione molto bassa della legge, i cui rappresentanti spesso, lungi dall'applicarla, la adoperano come scudo per difendere i loro loschi scopi a spese dei più deboli, non senza l'avvallo di chi dovrebbe controllarli e che invece fa l'esatto contrario. E la rappresenta in maniere altamente spettacolari, dalla immancabile rissa nel saloon ai migliori "fuochi artificial "dynamite.

A character almost magical, that over time and the changing of the authors has changed and many of them like me, they feel acutely the nostalgia.

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's image is the cover of Giant Tex No. 1 © Sergio Bonelli Editore