AEROPLANE TO AEROPLANO

Jijé Di Massimo Introvigne (translated by L. Pavese) Joseph Gillain (1914-1980), also known as Jijé, one of the greatest authors in the history of comic-books, was born one hundred years ago in Gedinne, Belgium. He was remembered in an exposition at the Maison de la Bande Dessinné (House of the Comic Strip) of Brussels, Belgium. (This article was written and translated by me at that time. L. Pavese). Jijé by Jijé T he exhibit is very rich with previously unpublished works and original drawings. Rino Cammilleri already wrote about Jijé on La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana at the time of the reprinting of the Italian edition of Jijé’s Don Bosco (ReNoir - Nona Arte, Milan, 2013); but the Brussels show places Jijé in the right context and helps us to understand him better. T he Belgian school of comics, whose other famous representative was Hergé (Georges Remi, 1907-1983), the creator of Tintin, is known as the school of the “clear-line,” as opposed to the two other...

     Not just I.N.R.I: what was really written on the Cross     di Ermes Dovico (translated and edited by L. Pavese)      On the cross on which the Lord was crucified the Latin acronym I.N.R.I (Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum), which stood for Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews, was not the only visible writing.      In addition to the Latin inscription, Saint John the Evangelist says the writing was also in Hebrew and Greek. And the Hebrew version reveals the reason why the Jews tried in vain to convince Pontius Pilate to change it.      “Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, 'Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.' Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.” (John 19, 19-20)      Before Saint John had written the fourth and last Gospel towards the end o...