The official date of birth of the comic strip in Italy is considered to be 27 December 1908, when the first edition of the “Corriere dei Piccoli” was published. The famous magazine was the first real “industrial” edition, with a very wide audience, that focused primarily on comic strip characters, and it was also the publisher of the first Italian serialised characters, by Attilio Mussino and Sergio Tofano.

In the article “Fluency without fear” the writers state that while we learn English through reading novels and poetry, mathematics is taught through fast memorization and tested under timed conditions. That is one of the reasons why people disconnect, reinforcing the misconception that mathematics is all about speed and memorized methods and that it is a stress inducing field because the stakes are considered too high.