Editor | Giovannino Guareschi |
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Categories | Humour magazine |
Frequency | Biweekly |
First issue | 14 July 1936 |
Final issue | 10 September 1943 |
Country | Kingdom of Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
Bertoldo was a biweekly magazine of surreal humour that ran from 14 July 1936 to 10 September 1943 under Italian Fascism. The magazine was based in Milan. [1] While the Becco Giallo magazine put out courageous political satire against the fascist regime, the reactionary authors of Bertoldo, like Marcello Marchesi, as well as Marc'Aurelio, developed a kind of surreal humour that was accepted by the regime. [2] [3]
Some of the best young artists and writers worked on the magazine. [4] Among them were the popular author Giovannino Guareschi (1908–1968), and the Romanian Jewish architect-student (later famous American cartoonist) Saul Steinberg (1914–1999). [5] Guareschi edited the magazine from 1936 to 1943. [1]
Bertoldo was succeeded by another satirical magazine, Candido. [6]