{"id":8365,"date":"2011-02-01T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:28:48","slug":"comics-enriched-their-lives-21-aka-comics-that-never-were-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8365","title":{"rendered":"Comics Enriched Their Lives! #21 (a\/k\/a Comics That Never Were #4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of note are [Milo Manara<\/a>‘s] two collaborations with Federico Fellini (a comic book enthusiast and a cartoonist himself), both in the director’s final years. The first, Viaggio a Tulum<\/em>, appeared in 1986; the second and final one was supposed to be a completed version of Il viaggio di G. Mastorna<\/a><\/em>, the movie Fellini had attempted to make during most of his career (the autobiographical 8 1\/2<\/em> refers to the director’s failure to start the production of this very film).<\/p>\n

Curiously, due to Fellini’s illness and a bizarre printing accident when the comic was serialized in the magazine il Grifo<\/em>, even the comic book version was left unfinished. The next two installments would have told of Mastorna’s travels in the afterlife, but due to a printing mistake, the word END<\/em> appeared at the bottom of the last page of the first episode. The always superstitious Fellini then decided it was a good place to stop and withdrew from the project. Il viaggio di G. Mastorna<\/em> is to this day considered by many Italian film critics the most famous never-filmed movie in the history of cinema.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014Simone Castaldi, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of note are [Milo Manara‘s] two collaborations with Federico Fellini (a comic book enthusiast and a cartoonist himself), both in the director’s final years. The first, Viaggio a Tulum, appeared in 1986; the second and final one was supposed to be a completed version of Il viaggio di G. Mastorna, the movie Fellini had attempted to make during most of his career (the autobiographical 8 1\/2 refers to the director’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[264,268,274,430,914,1205],"class_list":["post-8365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-comics-that-never-were","tag-comics-vs-movies","tag-federico-fellini","tag-milo-manara","tag-simone-castaldi"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}