Dino Attanasio (real name Edoardo Attanasio, born 8 May 1925) is a Belgian author of comics.

Biography

Attanasio was born in

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. After studies at the Academy of Arts of Milan, Dino Attanasio started to work in illustration and animation in the 1940s. He moved to Belgium in 1948 with his brother Gianni, also an artist. Shortly after his arrival, the young artist got in contact with ''

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'' magazine, for which he drew some illustrations, and decided to devote himself to comics. In the 1950s, he published '' Criche e Croc'' in the Italian magazine ''

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'' and ''Fanfan et Polo'' in ''

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'' with scripts by

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and then

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. At that time, he also worked for '' Spirou'' magazine with some contributions to '' Les Belles Histoires de l'Oncle Paul''. In 1954, he published " Pastis et Dynamite" in ''Line'' with

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. He became popular in the late 1950s and 1960s thanks to ''The Adventures of Signor Spaghetti'', a comic series he created with Goscinny, published in ''Tintin'' after 1957. From 1959 à 1962 he published in Femmes d'aujourd'hui the comics series version of '' Les Aventures de Bob Morane'', a series of novels written by

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and for which he made some illustrations and art covers in the Marabout Junior collection. However, he is replaced for this job by Gérald Forton. Then, from 1959 to 1968, he took over the series ''

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'', originally created by Franquin. After his departure from ''Tintin ''in 1968, Attanasio started working for the Dutch market, creating the series '' Johnny Goodbye'' with

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and Patty Klein for '' Eppo'' and ''

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'', with ''

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'' (with Delporte) in ''Pep'' and with '' De Macaroni's'' (with

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), but also for Italian magazines with " Ambroise et Gino" in ''

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''. From 1974 to 1986 he took on the ''Spaghetti'' series again in ''Formule 1'', published in albums by Archers. In 1991 Attanasio created a comic adaptation of

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's literary classic ''

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'' with his son, published by Lefrancq. In 1994, he took over the series ''Bob Morane'' for one story only. Since then, new works have made rarer and some have publishers rediscovered some of his works, as ''Carnets de route'' in 1999 by

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and since 2002 some shorts stories originally published in ''Tintin'', by Loup.

Publications

*''Bob Morane'' (5 tomes, edited by

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) 1960–1963 **''Bob Morane: Les tours de cristal'' 1961 *''Modeste et Pompon'' (11 tomes) 1964–1968 *''Spaghetti'' (24 tomes) 1961–2001 *''Ambroise et Gino'' (1 tome) 1979 *''Bandonéon'' (2 tomes) 1979 *''Flash-back et la 4e dimension'' (1 tome) 1979 *''Soleil des damnés (Le)'' (1 tome) 1983 *''Il était une fois dans l'oued'' (1 tome) 1984 *''Bob Morane'' (1 tome, edited by

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) 1979 *''Johnny Goodbye'' (7 tomes) 1979–2004 *''Bob Morane'' (Divers, 6 tomes) 1985–2007 *''Bob Morane'' (edited by Lefrancq, 7 tomes) 1989–1995 *''Décaméron (Le)'' (1 tome) 1991 *''Fanfan et Polo'' (1 tome) 1991 *''Jimmy Stone'' (1 tome) 1997 *''Attanasio'' (3 tomes) 1999–2006 *''Bd story'' (2 tomes) 2002 *''Meilleurs récits de... (Les)'' (4 tomes) 2002–2006 *''Candida'' (1 tome) 2006

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Interview about ''Bob Morane''
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