Last Christmas my brother went to Christmas Eve mass at the Vatican, so of course I asked him to pick me up a copy of Topolino magazine while he was there! Topolino is the Italian name given to Mickey Mouse, it means "small mouse". I had read somewhere that Topolino was the oldest continuously published children's magazine in the world. I can't find anything on the internet to back that up, but let's just go with it as a fact...who else could be in the running, Highlights? But anyhow, my brother came through for me and I'm now the proud owner of a 190 page magazine full of Christmas comics that I can't read! Italian is not like Spanish or French where you can kind of make out the language here-and-there...It's almost like those Italians have a different word for everything!
They kind of draw the characters a little differently in Italy, and they even have a few of their own characters that we don't see in the U.S. This issue of Topolino starts with a comic about a kid version of Donald Duck. There's also another character popular over there called P.K. who is actually a Super-Hero who's secret identity is Donald Duck. As you can see from the table of contents here, tucked in among the comics is a nice little article on everyone's favorite ex-Spice Girl Geri Hallwell. It was probably big news for Geri the day the Topolino offices called her and asked for an interview.
For bonus fun today, here's a scan for a cell phone wallpaper service off the back cover of the Topolino magazine. It's nice that all the wallpapers are Mickey and Pooh. If this ad were to run in a U.S. magazine, there would be one Mickey Mouse wallpaper and the rest would be High School Musical and Power Rangers!
Last Christmas my brother went to Christmas Eve mass at the Vatican, so of course I asked him to pick me up a copy of Topolino magazine while he was there! Topolino is the Italian name given to Mickey Mouse, it means "small mouse". I had read somewhere that Topolino was the oldest continuously published children's magazine in the world. I can't find anything on the internet to back that up, but let's just go with it as a fact...who else could be in the running, Highlights? But anyhow, my brother came through for me and I'm now the proud owner of a 190 page magazine full of Christmas comics that I can't read! Italian is not like Spanish or French where you can kind of make out the language here-and-there...It's almost like those Italians have a different word for everything!
They kind of draw the characters a little differently in Italy, and they even have a few of their own characters that we don't see in the U.S. This issue of Topolino starts with a comic about a kid version of Donald Duck. There's also another character popular over there called P.K. who is actually a Super-Hero who's secret identity is Donald Duck. As you can see from the table of contents here, tucked in among the comics is a nice little article on everyone's favorite ex-Spice Girl Geri Hallwell. It was probably big news for Geri the day the Topolino offices called her and asked for an interview.
For bonus fun today, here's a scan for a cell phone wallpaper service off the back cover of the Topolino magazine. It's nice that all the wallpapers are Mickey and Pooh. If this ad were to run in a U.S. magazine, there would be one Mickey Mouse wallpaper and the rest would be High School Musical and Power Rangers!
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