"TNT Limited"

Fulfilment of any crime

Reliability. Secrecy. Efficiency."

This is the visiting card of the most inconsequent criminal pair who is owner of the most rambling illegal firm ever existed.

Smalto & Jonny: the worse-assorted couple of the history of organized delinquency. A pair of unhinged criminals, living in an obsolete tank, whose actions develop in a surrealist atmosphere rich in any kind of scoundrels.

Smalto is an ex-colonel radiated from the army, Jonny is his ex-orderly. The first is slim, nervously determined and ready to accomplish all possible crimes in order to emulate the great achievements of the British mercenaries’ mythical commandos. The second is a gigantic dunce who stumbles against his own feet, responsible for all the scrapes which unavoidably condemn all adventures to failure.

No other character could endure the tenth part of the blows that they regularly receive: bursting cars, tumbles, bombs’ rains overwhelm them, according to a pure slapstick spirit.

There is no hope for the two characters who, crime after crime, will go around the world: they will meet traffickers in arms and smugglers, they will find themselves in the claws of a Transylvanian lycantropist or in the clutches of American gangsters, surrounded by a cynical mankind who will always have the better of them.

"Smalto & Jonny" was created in 1976 by G. Cavazzano and G. Pezzin in the pages of "Il Mago", a very important Italian cartoon magazine: It tells the story of two ex-mercenaries and of their surrealistic and grotesque adventures, rich in troubles, mishaps and unforeseen events.

Giorgio Cavazzano was born in Venice in 1947. At the age of 14 he starts to work as inker and in 1966 he begins to create his own "disneyan" stories. After 30 years of activity C. is an undisputed master of international disneyan cartooning and he influenced two generations of draughtsmen and readers. C. is a swift and versatile author and he has to his credit many humorous series. 

Giorgio Pezzin was born in Mestre in 1949: Since 1974 he is a well estimeed scenarist and he contributes to the Italian Walt Disney Company. From his long and fruitful artistic collaboration with G. Cavazzano many Topolino & Co. stories were born. Perhaps there is not any moral in their stories: the only sure thing is that crime does not reward maybe, but it has never been so amusing.