MAGNUS (ROBERTO RAVIOLA)

Tex - La valle del terrore, 1996 pencil and ink on thin cardboard 35 x 15,5 cm Original strip (18 A) made by Magnus for his eternal masterpiece "The valley of terror", published on Texone n. 9 on page 18 by Bonelli in 1996. In 1989 the Bolognese master decided to take refuge in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in Castel del Rio to dedicate all of himself to the creation of a monumental work: his Tex. A very long and exhausting work for the author himself, which will push Magnus to a maniacal perfectionism leading him to redesign the same pages several times in search of a perfection impossible to achieve for anyone else. The boards of Magnus' Texone have never appeared on the market and simple preparatory studies have been circulated up to now, the strip presented by us is in effect the first board ever to appear on the Texone market, Magnus in fact decided to apply on the definitive board a photocopy of this strip because the nib used had changed color in some points of the drawing, thus giving us the possibility of being able to keep a piece of history of world comics. Slight reddish halos caused by the color change of the ink used by the author.