Trottolino
Trottolino is the main character of a famous Italian humor comics magazine that ran from 1952 to 1990, with 425 issues. It was created in 1952 by Giorgio Rebuffi, who used the pen name O’Layne. The magazine was the first comics title published by Renato Bianconi, who became a publisher after its quick, strong success.
The magazine used a digest-sized format like Topolino and followed the adventures of an anthropomorphic squirrel named Trottolino. His frequent sidekick was Papy Papero, an anthropomorphic duck created by Luciano Bottaro. Papero later starred in his own stories and in the spin-off Papys Bill.
Other creators also contributed, including Rebuffi, Nicola Del Principe (who later edited Trottolino for many years), Giovan Battista Carpi, Luciano Gatto, and Tiberio Colantuoni. Starting in 1982, the magazine stopped publishing new stories and instead reprinted older ones.
There were spin-offs such as Super Trottolino (1959–1978) and Gran Trottolino (1980–1983), which mostly collected older Trottolino adventures.
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