The roots of cover of Turk comics I

The comics have been prepared in frame of fumetto in Turkey till 80's.

The some of comics have used by original shape, but they have made different comics to make propaganda.

These comics have usually been prepared by rightist painters or to support to rightist ideologies, especially nationalist ideology.

American comics, such as Marvel, have not as accepted as these comics due to not related to nationalism in Turkey.

A Turkish nationalist have added mustache to Conan and claimed that representing Turk. The picture only representing the barbaric character that known as Agop yapsın Yakup binsin

As it known comics are representing an old tradition that continued their power till VHS’s. The popular heroes that shown at movies not as seen easly as today. Magazines were also not as popular as today. Therefore people have shown affinity to comics that cheaper than a movie ticket, besides these were somethings that people could having.

It had more important to get reach these and have affect to readers, especially children.

Children were reading these after hear tales. The fiction can capture their mentality to canalize to nationalist tales. They can think that they can be as powerful as their idols that representing fictional movies and they can be struggle with the enemies as the hero does.

They known that Indians, Africans…briefly people whose not white are the enemy of whites. So, they have learned by comics, that they are white ones.

They have imagined that they can establish Ottoman that based on Sunni Islam, not original Ottoman, they can recapture lands or islands that alleged their lost. Therefore they have been prepared comics or paintings that they can recapture Cyprus and they have divided of Cyprus to maintain Britain’s power in the island.

First they have seen the pictures and have feeling closeness

Then they prepared their comics with similar faces and then they have thought that can be as powerful as fictional characters for Britain’s political interests

Turks have used popular faces to make themselves modern:

The addition to mixture to Zagor and Mister No turns out when combine the charm of Raquel Welch(one million years bc) and the face of Kim Novak from Moll Flanders

Charlotte Rampling

Nancy Sinatra

Ernest Borgnine — Hannie Caulder

Ronald Reagan — Cattle Queen of Montana

Turks might have been claimed that the copying of Ronald Reagan’s photo as inspiration, but this is not inspiration just copying or converting photos to drawings.

The inspiration example:

Nicoletta Machiavelli — Navajo Joe

Stephen Boyd — The Man Called Noon

Rod Steiger — A fistful of dynamite

As it can be seen the illustrator have used faces of the actors of the movie of A Fistful of Dynamite at this cover as a classic tactics of Turkish illustrators

I can describe that this is the paramount of the Turkish illustrators — The name of the painter: Giovanni Bragolin

Henry Fonda — Once Upon a time in the West

As it can be seen Turkish illustrators can be mix the scenes from movies