Cocco Bill comic

[parusmajor]

Sorry for an untranslated preview pic; the rest of the comic is properly translated into English.




This is Cocco Bill and his horse, Slowtrot.



Cocco Bill was drawn and written by the late Italian comic artist, Benito Jacovitti. Cocco comics are set in wild west. Their eponymous main character is a gun-toting, bad-tempered cowboy who loves chamomile tea. Cocco wanders from city to city, helping out local sheriffs and shooting criminals. In-universe, his name is famous. Other characters tend to spazz out whenever they hear that they're in the company of Cocco Bill, the famous and talented gunslinger.
Also, the comic has a higher quotient of salami sausages and slugs than any other western.

There was a cartoon series of Cocco Bill that had an English dub. Other than that, I'm pretty sure Cocco hasn't been published in English. These scans are fan translations and they probably differ from the original Italian version.
Sound effects aren't translated. "Nghe! Nghe!" appears to be Italian for "boohoo" and "Ah! Ah!" means laughing.




















Cocco is introduced to Svabb Kapsalonza, and he doesn't know yet that Kapsalonza is a crime boss. The bank gets robbed by four criminals (they're goons that work under Kapsalonza). Cocco tries to chase after them, but they manage to lose Cocco at a cliff. So then Cocco goes back to the city.




There's a running gag with Svabb Kapsalonza getting pissed off and punching Piter King in the teeth with that stick of his.




Later Cocco tries to catch criminals by following the stage-coach and waiting for an attack.







The story continues and Cocco catches all the bad guys in normal comic book fashion, but these are all the pages I was gonna post here, so yeah.

Majority of Cocco Bill comics were made back in the 1970s, and most countries haven't had reprints after that. Cocco comics tend to be pretty hard to find and they can be kind of expensive nowadays. Because of these factors, this is an obscure comic that has small cult following among those who still remember it.
Luckily my dad had a couple of Cocco issues when I was a kid. If it wasn't for that, I don't think I would've ever found out about this comic's existence.

Comments

[thandrak]

It's like Don Martin wrote Lucky Luke.

[feuer_flammenlos]

I didn't read the original Italian for this one but -by what little I've read of Jacovitti- the translation is a sure ringer.

(also: Nghé Nghé is the sound of a crying baby, not of an adult.)

[ashenmote]

Wow, I used to have the German translation of that. I completely forgot! The panels are so full of stuff and details, it has a better rereading value than most comics. The weirdness helps too, of course. :D

[lonewolf23k]

Oh man, I once read a french translation of another Cocco Bill story I can't remember right now.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Well, this certainly has a weirdness factor of eleven. Whether that makes it good or not, I couldn't say - I'd have to read more of it - but memorable, it certainly is.