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Giorgio Rebuffi
Giorgio Rebuffi (7 November 1928 – 15 October 2014) was an Italian comics artist. Born in Milan, Rebuffi started his career in 1949 when, still being a university student at the Faculty of Medicine, he created the character Sceriffo Fox ("Sheriff Fox") for the publisher Edizioni Alpe. Shortly after the publisher placed him in charge to cure the stories of Cucciolo , Cucciolo and Beppe, two characters he revolutionised, changing their appearance, giving them well-defined personalities and enhancing the satirical side of their stories.Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990. In 1952, he created his best known character, the bizarre superhero Tiramolla, characterized by the ability of being able to stretch as he wishes. Other well-known characters by Rebuffi include the squirrel Trottolino (created in 1952) and the wolf Pugacioff (created in 1959). Rebuffi was also active as a Walt Disney, Disney cartoonist for the Mondadori publications. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edizioni Alpe
Edizioni Alpe (also known for a time in the late 1940s as Edizioni Subalpino) was an Italian publishing house founded in 1939 and active until the late 1980s. Based in Milan, it published a series of magazines focusing on popular fiction genres—romance, science fiction, mystery—and the genre for which it was best known, comics. History The company was founded in 1939 by the journalist and writer Giuseppe Antonio Caregaro. One of its earliest and most successful comics was the '' Cucciolo'' series created by Caregaro and drawn by Rino Anzi.Chendi, Carlo and Badino, Sergio (eds.) (2008)''Strips of land, strips of paper'' p. 185. Tunué. Although Alpe primarily concentrated on comics, it also published popular fiction magazines after Caregaro took over Edizioni Economiche Italiane and its back catalogue in 1940. Alpe became a limited liability company in 1944 with Caregaro as its managing director, but much of the editorial supervision and administration was carried out by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Stampa
''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. History and profile The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867 with the name ''Gazzetta Piemontese''. In 1895, the newspaper was bought (and by then edited) by Alfredo Frassati (father of Pier Giorgio Frassati), who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticising the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli. The financier Riccardo Gualino also took a share. The paper is now owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, and has a centrist stance. The former contributors of ''La Stampa'' include Italian novelist Alberto Moravia. ''La Stampa'', based in Turin, was published in broadsheet format until November 2006 when the paper began to be publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucciolo
Cucciolo is the title character of an Italian long-lasting comic book series. Background Cucciolo, together with the inseparable friend Beppe, are a couple of comic characters created in 1940 by Giuseppe Caregaro as writer and Rino Anzi as artist as an imitation of Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Goofy.Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990, pp. 30–31 They were originally drawn as two cute anthropomorphic animals, and were protagonists of humorous-adventure stories in which they face the bad Bombarda, an imitation of Pete. Their stories were originally published in the comic magazine ''Gli Albi Del Scimiottino'' and in a number of other magazines, then Cucciolo named an eponym comic magazine, published by Edizioni Alpe (later Edizioni Bianconi) from 1948 to 1986. Starting from post-war era the cartoonist Giorgio Rebuffi revolutionized the comics, turning the two protagonists in two humans, giving them well-defined personalities and enhancing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiramolla
Tiramolla is an Italian comic book character created in 1952 by Roberto Renzi and Giorgio Rebuffi. Tiramolla (English language, English: Stretch-Spring) is a bizarre Superhero that resembles a stick figure with extensible slender body, oval face, long legs, a cylindrical head and a bow. Tiramolla has acquired the unique ability of being able to stretch as he wishes, even for several kilometers, after falling into a large container of rubber. He appeared for the first time in August 1952 as a supporting character in the comic series ''Cucciolo e Beppe'', in the magazine ''Cucciolo'', in the story "Il mistero della villa" (trad. "Mystery of the Villa"). The first cartoonist was Giorgio Rebuffi. On 15 July 1959, Tiramolla became the star of an independent magazine of the same name, published by Edizioni Alpe. Umberto Manfrin joined Rebuffi in the role of writer, and later also became cartoonist with the pseudonym of Mamberto. New characters were introduced: the butler ''Saetta'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trottolino
Trottolino is the title character of an Italian humorous comics magazine. Background Trottolino was created in 1952 by Giorgio Rebuffi under the pen name "O'Layne" and was the title character of a comics magazine published between 1952 and 1990. It was the first comics magazine published by Renato Bianconi, a former collaborator of publisher Alpe; released without any marketing hype, it got an immediate commercial success and launched the career of Bianconi as a publisher. The comics magazine, similar in its digest-sized format to ''Topolino'', featured the adventures of an anthropomorphic squirrel. His sidekick in many stories was the anthropomorphic duck Papy Papero, a character created by Luciano Bottaro who was also the leading character of independent stories and later of a western-themed spin-off comic book series, ''Papys Bill''. The magazine also included comics featuring different characters created by the same Rebuffi, Nicola Del Principe (who later also cured, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pugacioff
Pugacioff (also spelled Pugaciòff) is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Giorgio Rebuffi. Background Pugacioff was created by Rebuffi in 1959 as a supporting character in the comic series '' Cucciolo'', then he became protagonist of independent stories, published in various comics magazine of the publisher Edizioni Alpe. An always-hungry anthropomorphic wolf who constantly devises plans to catch and eat the villain Bombarda and his henchman Salsiccia, Pugacioff became, between 1963 and 1969, the title character of the comic book series ''Le avventure di Pugacioff''. Pugacioff was also a recurring character in ''Tore Scoccia'', a comic strip series about a galactic traveling salesman created in the late 1960s by Carlo Chendi Angelo Carlo Chendi (10 July 1933 – 12 September 2021) was an Italian cartoonist. Since 1952, Carlo Chendi wrote hundreds of stories with characters from Disney comics. Early life Chendi moved at a young age from Ferrara, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned and nominations by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the List of films considered the best, greatest films ever by the American Film Institute. Disney was the first person to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy. History The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1912 he founded ''La Sociale'' and published the first book ''AiaMadama'' together with his close friend Tommaso Monicelli and the following year, ''La Lampada'', a series of children's books. The publishing house kept working intensely even during the First World War, mainly on the publication of magazines for the troops on the front such as ''La Tradotta'', which included contributions from famous illustrators and writers such as Soffici, De Chirico and Carrà. In 1919 the publishing house headquarters were transferred to Milan. After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels, by internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comics Artists
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1928 Births
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