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Blue (Italian Magazine)
''Blue'' was an Italian erotic auteur comics magazine, published from 1991 to 2009 in Rome, Italy. History and profile The magazine debuted in January 1991, and was published monthly and later bi-monthly.Gianni Bono. "Blue". ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Epierre, 2003. pp. 401-3. It was intended according to the founder and publisher Francesco Coniglio as "a Noah's Ark, a rescue ship of creativity for many cartoonists, illustrators and photographers". During its first five years of history, it had a circulation of 20,000 copies per issue. It published series and short stories by Milo Manara, Roberto Baldazzini, Riccardo Mannelli, Guido Crepax, Filippo Scòzzari, Vittorio Giardino, Franco Saudelli, Massimo Mattioli, Massimo Rotundo, Leone Frollo, Menotti, Gipi, Paolo Bacilieri, Giovanna Casotto, Carlo Ravaioli, Silvio Cadelo, Michelangelo La Neve, among others. It also presented works by prominent international artists such as Robert Crumb, Jean Giraud, Matthias Schul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna Casotto
Giovanna Casotto (born 2 August 1962) is an Italian comic book artist and illustrator, known by her erotic comics. Life and career Casotto was born in Desio, in Lombardy. She was passionate about drawing and comics since childhood; before entering this career she lived as a housewife. She attended the School of Comics in Milan for three years, after which she published some short stories for ''Intrepido'' magazine, written by Mauro Muroni. In 1994 she met Franco Saudelli, with whom she became a frequent collaborator. In 1991, the publisher Stefano Trentini proposed her to draw stories about football, but she refused, not feeling attracted to the genre. Trentini himself, three years later, involved her in the project of the erotic culture and comics magazine ''Selen''. When the magazine closed, she moved on to the similar monthly publication ''Blue'', published by Coniglio Editore and began to publish erotic tables for the English magazine ''Desire''. Casotto's stories were firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Trillo
Carlos Trillo (May 1, 1943 – May 8, 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer, best known for writing the ''Cybersix'' comics. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Trillo began a prolific career as writer at the age of 20, penning his first story for ''Patoruzú'' magazine. Trillo, together with Horacio Altuna, created the strip '' El Loco Chávez'', which appeared every day at the back of the newspaper '' Clarín'' from July 26, 1975 to November 10, 1987. After that, the strip was replaced by '' El Negro Blanco'', which he wrote for the artist Ernesto García Seijas until September 1993. He participated in the creation of several comics including ''Cybersix'' in 1992, with Carlos Meglia, and the erotic ''Clara de noche'' and ''Cicca Dum Dum'' series with Jordi Bernet. He has also collaborated with Alberto Breccia and Alejandro Dolina. In 1999, his work ''La grande arnaque'' (''The Big Hoax'') won the Prize for Scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Trillo died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régis Loisel
Régis Loisel (born 4 December 1951) is a French cartoonist, best known for the series '' La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'', written by Serge Le Tendre. He worked with Walt Disney Studios on the animated films ''Atlantis'' and ''Mulan''. Bibliography * ''La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'', 4 parts, 1983-1987 * ''La Dernière goutte...'', 1993 * ''Les Farfelingues'', 3 parts, 2001-2004 * ''Magasin Général'', 9 parts, 2006-2014 * ''Les Nocturnes'' * ''Norbert le lézard'', 2004 * ''L'Offrande'' * ''Peter Pan'', 6 parts, 1990-2004 * '' Pyrénée'', 1998 * '' La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'' (''The Quest for the Time-bird''), 7 parts, 1998-2022 * ''Troubles fêtes'', 1989 * ''Mali Mélo, carnet d'un voyage au Mali'', 2000 * "Mickey Mouse: Café Zombo", 2016 * ''Le grand mort'', 6 parts, 2007-2019 * ''Un putain de salopard'', 3 parts, 2019- Awards * 1986: Lucien Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France * 1992: Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kaluta
Michael William Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta (born August 25, 1947), is an American comics artist and writer best known for his acclaimed 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero ''The Shadow'' with writer Dennis O'Neil. Early life Born in Guatemala to U.S. citizens, Kaluta studied at the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University). Career Kaluta's early work included a three-page adventure story, "The Battle of Shiraz", in Charlton Comics ''Flash Gordon'' #18 (Jan. 1970) and an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's ''Carson of Venus'' novels for DC Comics. Kaluta's influences and style are drawn from pulp illustrations of the 1930s and the turn-of-the-century poster work of Alphonse Mucha – his signature motif is elaborate decorative panel designs – rather than the comic books of the Silver Age. He has rarely worked with the superhero genre, although one of his early contributions for DC was a "World of Kryp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Giménez
Juan Antonio Giménez López (; 26 November 1943 – 2 April 2020) was an Argentine comic book artist and writer, most recognized for his detailed machine-like imagery. Among his noted works include stories for the French '' Métal Hurlant'' and the Argentinian ''L'Eternauta'' magazines, and the comic series ''Metabarons'' co-developed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Biography Giménez López was born in Mendoza, Argentina. He finished his high school education as an industrial designer. He then attended the National University of Cuyo's School of Arts and Design followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. While his early professional career was spent in advertising, with writing and drawing comics as a side activity, he eventually moved into comics as a full-time profession by his thirties. Giménez had started getting his own stories published when he was sixteen years old in Argentine magazines '' Frontera'', ''Misterix'' and ''Hora Cero''. His first stories, for Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf König
Ralf König (born 8 August 1960) is one of the best known and most commercially successful German comic book creators. His books have been translated into many languages. He has resided in Soest, Dortmund and Berlin and now lives in Cologne. Biography After attending a German Hauptschule, König completed an apprenticeship, learning the trade of a joiner. In 1979, he came out as a gay man, and about this time he created short comics stories that appeared in the Munich underground magazine ''Zomix'' and the gay periodical ''Rosa Flieder''. He returned to school from 1981 to 1986, attending the public Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and pursuing a major in free art (''Freie Kunst''). Also in 1981, his early collected comics were published by the gay publishing house Verlag rosa Winkel as ''SchwulComix'' (''GayComix''). In 1987, he wrote ''The Killer Condom'' (''Kondom des Grauens''), his first comic with a continuous story, which was later produced as a film. In the German-speaking w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Stanton
Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni Jr.) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Irving Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman (publisher of ''Exotique'' and Selbee magazines), the notorious Times Square publisher Edward Mishkin, paperback publisher Stanley Malkin, and later magazine publisher George W. Mavety. For a decade, Stanton also shared a working studio with Marvel Comics legend Steve Ditko. Past the soft-core era of the 1960s, his art became more transgressive. Creating a mail-order business in the 1970s named the "Stanton Archives," Stanton sold his work directly to fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi (; born 30 August 1946) is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi. Biography Tardi was born on 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ..., he started drawing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote'', initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story ''Rumeur sur le Rouergue'' from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972. In the English language, many of Tardi's books are published by Fantagraphics Books, edited and translated by Fantagraphics' co-founder Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio Altuna
Horacio Altuna (born November 24, 1941) is an Argentine comics artist. Biography Altuna was born in Córdoba. He began working in the comics world in 1965 for the publisher Editorial Columbia. His first characters were Titan, a Superman-like superhero, Kabul de Bengala (1971, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Armando Fernández among others), Big Norman, Hilario Corvalán and others. From 1973 to 1976, Altuna collaborated with Fleetway, Ediciones Record, Charlton Comics, ''Playboy'' and the French Les Humanoïdes Associés. Beginning in July 1975, for the newspaper '' Clarín'', Altuna together with writer Carlos Trillo created the character of journalist Hugo Chávez, better known as ''El loco Chavez (Crazy Chavez)'', for years one of the Argentine's most popular comics strips. Also with Trillo script, Altuna drew the series ''Charlie Moon'' and ''Las puertitas del señor López (Mr Lopez little doors)'' In 1982, Altuna moved to Sitges in Spain, drawing stories for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Wolinski
Georges David Wolinski (; 28 June 19347 January 2015) was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in a terrorist attack on ''Charlie Hebdo'' along with other staff. Early life Georges David Wolinski was born on 28 June 1934 in Tunis, French TunisiaAttentat à Charlie Hebdo : Cabu, Charb, Tignous et Wolinski parmi les victimes Charlie Hebdo : Cabu, Charb, Wolinski, Maris et les autres, tués dans l'attaque '''', 7 January 2015 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Schultheiss
Matthias Schultheiss (born 27 July 1946) is a German graphic novel artist. He is known, especially in France for his works ''Bell's Theorem (comic), Bell's Theorem'' and ''The Sharks of Lagos'' published in the mid to late-1980s. Life and work Schultheiss was born in Nuremberg. He originally took an education in cabinet-making, then went on to study illustration at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. His first graphic novel called ''Trucker'' appeared in 1981 as a serial in the German magazine ''Comic-Reader'', and he published two comic adaptations of short stories by Charles Bukowski. His 1985 graphic novel ''Kalter Krieg'' ("Cold War") was indexed as harmful to minors by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, not due to its depiction of sex and violence, but because of its bleak, pessimistic nihilism. His breakthrough came when Franco-Belgian comics, Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''L'Écho des savanes'' published his graphic novels ''Bell's Theorem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
