At Palazzo delle Albere, the Mart is hosting an exhibition on linus, the famous magazine that has spanned, narrated and shaped the social and cultural history of our country. 57 years of publishing history through all the covers of the 690 issues published between 1965 and 2022.

Born in 1950 from the mind of Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts arrived in Italy in 1965 through linus magazine, sparking a cultural revolution that shaped people's minds, as they began to laugh, smile and think for new and different reasons. The iconic characters become champions of imagination, humbled and crushed by the cumbersome logic of the everyday. In The Peanuts everything happens in four frames; the world begins and ends in a perfect exercise of synthesis and unprecedented irony. The bittersweet musings that emerge are views or reflections, so striking as to seem outlandish, that seek to answer life's questions by unleashing and reclaiming the power of imagination.

In the Italian version, the Peanuts characters are in good company: the magazine's covers and pages have featured heroes and anti-heroes born from the imagination of the most acclaimed cartoonists and illustrators, such as Popeye by Segar, Valentina by Crepax, Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt, Mafalda by Quino and, in more recent years, Dylan Dog by Tiziano Sclavi and Zerocalcare.  

The exhibition is also a measure of the timeliness of those who founded and named this magazine: Oreste del Buono, Giovanni Gandini, Anna Maria Gandini and, of course, Umberto Eco who, in the first issue, talked to Elio Vittorini about this “deadly serious” thing that is comics.

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