Ozono

Ozono was a series of adventure comics about an “ecological action group” which was created in 1990 by Antonio Segura with drawings by José Ortiz for the Italian magazine L`Eternauta. it was later published in a compilation album. In Spain it appeared in Totem el Comix.

Ozono is an international organisation similar to Interpol whose purpose is to fights against any kind of environmental crime. The group operates in a plausible near future (the stories, published since 1990, are set in 2010) in which the senseless management of the earth's resources and the reckless exploitation of the earth has brought the planet to the brink of disaster, the greenhouse effect has turned half of Europe into a tropical forest and the whole of North Africa into an appendage of the Saharan desert; the widening of the ozone hole has forced people to wear goggles and protective clothing; the buildings of large cities wrap their facades behind dismal sheets of lead cloth.

All this has made it necessary to set up a special unit capable of combating ecological crimes and environmental offenses by any means possible. The group intervenes in any scenario that could pose a danger to nature and mankind, saving endangered species, forests from deforestation and intervening above all where man's folly could lead to new environmental catastrophes (oil tankers, atomic power stations or even simple refrigeration plants).

At the time of its publication the series was very controversial in Italy creating quite a debate.