“You’re not stupid, you’re just unlucky when you think”
What makes you laugh?
Have you heard about Italian comics, Alan Ford?
Alan Ford was created by Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi) and Magnus (Roberto Raviola). Max Bunker, pen name of Luciano Massimiliano Secchi was born in 1939 and is still active, and he recently announced to the Italian media, after the release of the 650th edisode, that the end of 2023, will also be the end of the famous hero comics. This post is written as the addition to the story in my eBook Quarantine Diaries and Beyond to keep Ford, you know, Alan Ford alive. Now that the end of Mr. Ford, Alan Ford, and “TNT company” are announced that one of the comics quotes comes to my mind:
“To get to an end, you must go back to the start.“
So, the story of the secret agent Ford, Alan Ford, introduces to us the “Group” named TNT and teaches us that they are always at alert when someone approaches their safe house…
The”Group” named TNT is established by “NUMBER 1,” and their members are secret agents Alan Ford, Bob Rock, Sir Oliver, Grunf, The Chief(Boss) with real name Gervasius De Statui, and Jeremiah. Headquarters were in New York Fifth Avenue flower shop, which continuously operates without flowers. It ridicules the aspects of American and Western societies, including capitalism and racism, introducing COMMON SENSE!
And common sense is simple! As the words point! It is a SENSE that is COMMON as long as it is allowed by some invisible hand to be common! Otherwise, the quote – COMMON SENSE IS NOT SO COMMON APPLY!
But let’s concentrate how common becomes VERY COMMON! One , including me, can conclude that reading the comics like Alan Ford, your brain somehow(I know how,just playing a chicken), starts working with common sense as a ruler. The mind is gradually cleansed of manipulation and all the stuff complicating your life. Maybe that is the main reason why Alan Ford was never translated to English. Not to forget the trying with French.
While the people sleep, let them sleep! This is not from Alan Ford. It’s mine, and it shows what Alan Ford comics can do. Plus one more
WHEN YOU WAKE UP DO NOT BE STINGY AND BUY US A COFFEE.
So, not to usurp your time with other writings, you can watch the short video below that is giving you the opportunity to meet more of Alan Ford and laugh!
March 29, 2025
Darko Richard Lancelot
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2 responses to “Alan Ford!”
I didn’t know much about Alan Ford before this, but now I feel like I missed out on a strange and wonderful dinner party—where truth showed up dressed as comedy.
These kinds of shows and comics do something special. They sneak past the guards in our minds. They make us laugh first, and then—quietly—they plant deep thoughts like seeds under our skin.
Humor like this isn’t just for fun. It’s medicine with sprinkles. It helps us see how the world works… or doesn’t. It’s like holding up a mirror, but the mirror talks back and rolls its eyes.
We remember jokes longer than lectures. That’s why satire lasts. It punches softly but lands deep.
Comics like this don’t just make us laugh. They make us think while laughing—which is basically the closest thing to enlightenment we get while sitting on the toilet.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s a reminder that laughter isn’t always light—it can also be a flashlight.
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Very happy that I introduced something new to you and other fellow curious human beings. I am always very emotional writing about Alan Ford as it is connected with my youth reminding me of really beautiful, unique, peaceful times. Times where we could develop the substance and not lose time for shallow trivialities. And exactly every time I think or write about it is like I on the flashlight where all that time comes infront of me. Beautiful time, beautiful memories.
Just to say that I am not that old, but I am sometimes nostalgic thinking of first love, Alan Ford quotes, moments we were waiting to buy new editions, long nights discussions about life and its purpose, with a lot sharp anecdotes that kept us awake!
Thank you again for your comment as it became another source of inspiration.
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